Windows 8 increasingly tolerable - 8.1 update 1 now available - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=paul simon;44497147]I figured that was just a generic security update, I expected this to be more like when Windows 8.1 came out.[/QUOTE] Getting a mere update for Windows 8.1 confused with Windows 8.1 Update? Pfft

[QUOTE=smurfy;44497167]Getting a mere update for Windows 8.1 confused with Windows 8.1 Update? Pfft[/QUOTE] Well they both didn't really change all that much :v:

I don't see the update, and it's not in my update history, could it be because I am in Australia? edit: After pressing the "Check for Updates" button over 9000 times, it finally came up :D edit2: So, that new start menu isn't even included? What a waste of 1.8gb >_>

[QUOTE=Killuah;44496396]Wish there was an option so when you hit the windows key it takes you to the desktop not to the metro menu :([/QUOTE] Right click on the taskbar, properties, navigation tab, check off correct the box under Start. Oh wait, that is to boot into desktop. Fuck, I just realized how annoying the windows key is now...

[QUOTE=damnatus;44496426]I don't like calling Windows programs apps because of smartphones. Apps are for your average consumer electronics user. Programs are for power users.[/QUOTE] So wait if I'm using power user stuff on my phone like VNC and SSH does that mean it's a program and you using your web browser are using an app? That's an awful definition :v:

[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;44497103]He's also wrong, you could boot straight to desktop even in 8.1, and to shut it down you can right click on the start button, hover the mouse over "Shut down or sign out", and click shut down[/QUOTE] Ah! Thank you for this! I had no idea that was an option! Usually I have the mouse sit on the right side until the snap comes up and then go to shut down from settings. This will be so much faster!

I really don't like the name. Next will be 8.1 update 1 revision 1 or something.

[QUOTE=garry;44496372]A TV has programs, a computer has applications (apps)[/QUOTE] A TV has shows, a computer has software v:v:v I don't think it matters what you call it, but apps is a poor word purely because it's been such a buzzword for smartphones that it's hard not to associate it with tiny, usually-pointless little apps instead of proper applications.

[QUOTE=AlfieSR;44498485]A TV has shows, a computer has software v:v:v[/QUOTE] from now on I'm calling all my apps 'sof's

[QUOTE=Bo98;44498424]I really don't like the name. Next will be 8.1 update 1 revision 1 or something.[/QUOTE] I assume 'Update' is the new 'Service Pack', but it's confusing that they're doing both .1 and 'Update' updates. They should just choose one and stick with it instead of having two totally different systems that don't match up and don't fit together in an intuitive way, but I guess that reflects the design of the OS itself.

[QUOTE=smurfy;44498659]I assume 'Update' is the new 'Service Pack', but it's confusing that they're doing both .1 and 'Update' updates. They should just choose one and stick with it instead of having two totally different systems that don't match up and don't fit together in an intuitive way, but I guess that reflects the design of the OS itself.[/QUOTE] it's a common schema for programs to have product version>major version update>build>revision in their numbering, like this one I'm working with- [img]http://i.imgur.com/QuaywpF.png[/img]

[QUOTE=dai;44498730]it's a common schema for programs to have product version>major version update>build>revision in their numbering, like this one I'm working with- [img]http://i.imgur.com/QuaywpF.png[/img][/QUOTE] They could have called this 8.1.1 imo. Either that or 8.1 should have been "Windows 8 Update 1" and this should be Update 2. They've mixed two naming schemes in a strange way Then again who cares lmao

windows 8.1 episode 1

Hope this doesn't end up like Valve, but instead they can't count to two (forget about the 8).

[QUOTE=dai;44498646]from now on I'm calling all my apps 'sof's[/QUOTE] joke's on you, russians were calling programs "soft" since the 90s :v: [editline]9th April 2014[/editline] while promptly pirating it of course

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;44496507]Do i have to call myself an apper instead of a programmer now?[/QUOTE] Application is to Program as Square is to Rectangle: All apps are programs, but not all programs are apps.

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;44496507]Do i have to call myself an apper instead of a programmer now?[/QUOTE] No, silly, you're a [I][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE"]developer[/URL][/I].

I am just irked how Win8 says "Tap to choose what happens with this device" on a desktop PC. I know, it is a little, insignificant thing to sperg out about, but it irks me nonetheless. It is "Click", not "Tap". Get it right, MS.

[QUOTE=benfailed;44504370]I am just irked how Win8 says "Tap to choose what happens with this device" on a desktop PC. I know, it is a little, insignificant thing to sperg out about, but it irks me nonetheless.[/QUOTE] Windows has always done that, they just altered how it looks.

[QUOTE=LegndNikko;44505268]Windows has always done that, they just altered how it looks.[/QUOTE] He means the word "tap". Tap. With a mouse.

If Microsoft simply kept Metro to touch devices or at least made it optional when first launching the operating system, people wouldn't hate Windows 8 so much.