Systems Administrator Reacts to Windows 8


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/facepalm

That's downgraded. Not upgraded. Since you put "Win 7 to Win XP"

What have you been smoking on?

Sarcasm, bratha. ;)

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That's downgraded. Not upgraded. Since you put "Win 7 to Win XP"

What have you been smoking on?

What,, XP has 2 letters after Windows, so it must be an upgrade,, especially since X is roman for 10, and 10 is higher then 7

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I'm a Systems Administrator and I welcome change. In fact, how often are you going to spend in the GUI of a server any way? Any smart SA knows that automating things with PowerShell is the way to go!

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I think half the internet is moaning over that developers preview.

If the internet includes you alone, then you are right. But then again I have not touched a microsoft product since around windows 98, so its all good.

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What,, XP has 2 letters after Windows, so it must be an upgrade,, especially since X is roman for 10, and 10 is higher then 7

Wrong! XP is short for eXPerience.

Learn to research.

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Lmao @ all the people in this thread who conclude that these guys "know nothing" or "should not have jobs" because they find the Windows 8 UI retarded being on a desktop PC.

They're obviously not giving it a professional review or anything, they're just playing around (hence the laughter?) Are you guys seriously unable to see that, or am I being trolled here?

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Wrong! XP is short for eXPerience.

Learn to research.

it was obviously a joke, learn a sense of humor
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Exactly the same reaction as me! The metro UI makes no sense on a keyboard and mouse system. It's very focussed on touch which is nice but I wouldn't want to see it everyday.

He also has a point, accepting a EULA for the Microsoft Keyboard, why on earth does it even come up with that.

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I think he touched the screen because he was making fun of the Metro UI. He was making fun of the fact that the UI was clearly made for touch and not a mouse and keyboard.

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Exactly the same reaction as me! The metro UI makes no sense on a keyboard and mouse system. It's very focussed on touch which is nice but I wouldn't want to see it everyday.

functionality with mouse and keyboard has actually been improved greatly since the dev preview

from what they showed at CES I think the metro UI's going to work quite well even with keyboard and mouse

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The Beta is much improved over the WDP and is designed to work with mouse/keyboard much better. In our time with it, it was definitely clear that it's going to stay on the desktop too. I think you'll see the enterprise embrace it. The benefits much outweigh the "bad stuff"

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The Beta is much improved over the WDP and is designed to work with mouse/keyboard much better. In our time with it, it was definitely clear that it's going to stay on the desktop too. I think you'll see the enterprise embrace it. The benefits much outweigh the "bad stuff"

I agree, the possibilities for what enterprises can use the informative metro tiles for is almost endless
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functionality with mouse and keyboard has actually been improved greatly since the dev preview

from what they showed at CES I think the metro UI's going to work quite well even with keyboard and mouse

I'm glad to be able to use the mouse wheel to scroll through the tiles. I spend most of the day scrolling the web, so it'll be second nature pretty much.

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i got a kick out of the idiot touching the screen after they said it was built for touchscreens.. like the upgrade was going to put a digitizer in his monitor automatically

he prolly did that as a joke or to test how it would "feel" under his finger.

I agree, the possibilities for what enterprises can use the informative metro tiles for is almost endless

this would be good for restaurant POS systems.

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They will probably add something at the last minute to provide an alternate classic interface or a tool to do remote server management (GUI).

When you do software development, you need to take in consideration that it is not everyone that have the same skills and some people still prefers to manage their stuff using an graphical interface.

Anyway, I am sure that their Analysts have tough about all possible issues regarding this. Let just wait and see.

typically there are external virtual machine management tools with vmware and hyper-v

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Ah, an admin who has reached that stage whereby the feel very smug by mocking new developments they really should have known about almost a year ago, but do so in a very self-congratulatory way...

One greying guy in an office mocking the new UI, telling people how ridiculous Microsoft are... Yup, Microsoft are the ridiculous ones... Sure, you say what you feel you need to in order to satiate your ego and justify your job.

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I distinctly remember a post on the b8 blog where it was stated that they did not want to offer the option to disable the start screen.

I am confident that their licensing agreements with large corporations will make them reconsider this.

Seriously, give the standard desktop and laptop crowd the chance to turn it off or use some type of hybrid like what Thurrott posted awhile ago. Leave the pure Metro interface to touch screen enabled devices. I'm anxious to take a look at the beta and load it up, but I'm still very doubtful that a Metro Start Menu is the right thing to do on mouse/keyboard setups (non-touch screen).

I'm open to being suprised and adopting it should it work, it's just that right now today I can already hear the users complaining and screaming at work (they are rarely happy though). Hell, I take enough flack from users over the change to Win7/IE8 and the [sarcasm]drastic and shocking[/sarcasm] changes that it brought when compared to WinXP. Next to the complaints I hear "Why did it take so long? I upgraded my home machine in an hour!". Sure pal, come on over and repeat it 90,000 times and fix all the sites and apps while you at it.

functionality with mouse and keyboard has actually been improved greatly since the dev preview

from what they showed at CES I think the metro UI's going to work quite well even with keyboard and mouse

This is good news, I'm anxious to check it out!
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I've never disabled UAC although it's not that good right now considering how vague the descriptions are i.e. "Some program on the internet wants access to your hard drive" Is it Flash Player? Is it malware? Is it cookies?

I've always found System Restore to be wholly useless though. I can't think of one time it's actually worked for me and worse still, any time I'm cleaning up malware, it's always attached itself to the system restore files without fail.

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There is audio. The system admin comes in and states what the hell is that , it looks like garbage. That showed me right there he should not have a job. Even if you do not plan on having windows 8 on your network. You should at least know what the next windows looks like. Thats why i hope this was all staged.

I was actually impressed that the developer preview off windows 8 actually works with all those monitors.

The video was uploaded a few days after the DP was released.

And that's exactly what I thought when I first ran it virtually. In that form, it's made for tablets. I don't see a use for desktops. I'm hoping that will change, but if not, no big loss. Win7 is still pretty nice. And working at a public school, we're always a little further behind in upgrading than most, but that's because of economics.

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