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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:54AM
-a.
While I do own a copy of windows 7, that's only for regressing bugs with some code I wrote a while back. If I do need to regress a bug with Windows 7, I will install it, but I have not actually installed it yet.
What microsoft regards as an indeterminate progress indicated with that large, circular cursor that gets the GPU hot and your fans spinning as it sort of slowly rotates, drives me absolutely bananas.
That's properly known as the "Pointer". When you move the "Mouse" with your hand, the "Pointer" moves too.
The purpose of the pointer is to know when you're cool to click on a button or scrollbar or when you want to get into a text entry field, select menu items and the like.
The purpose of the pointer is not to make itself so glaringly obvious to me that I am completely unable to focus my attention on anything else.
However the ultimate cause of my decision not to use Windows ever again, is that a great deal of sophisticated image processing is used to make the title bars and frames of all the windows semitransparent but quite blurry, so you can see through to the other items on your desktop as if you are looking through a glass shower door.
I have quite a serious problem with eye fatigue. I have multiple astigmatism, my glasses can only correct for the first-order cylinder, it's not like being near sighted or far sighted, I have to wear glasses all the damn time, and now I'm getting old so really I can't see anything that well anymore.
I spent quite a long time tooling around hoping to find a way to disabled those semintransparent but blurry title bars and frames. Upon yielding no joy, I decided that I would drop dead of fatigue just by hanging out on slashdot and kuro5hin too much, were I to so hang out with windows 7.
I have a major product announcement [warplife.com] coming 5:01 PM 2014-03-21 EST.
(Score: 1) by Aighearach on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:57AM
I gave up and switched to linux when apps stopped working with Win3.11+Win32S extensions. I never thought they could make a worse OS than Win95. Then came WinME, Vista, 8.
(Score: 5, Informative) by damnbunni on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:25AM
Disabling the blurry transparent frames is fairly simple in Windows 7.
Right-click the desktop, select Personalize, change the theme to Windows 7 Basic or Windows Classic.
Turns of Aero, therefore not using the GPU for anything really, and disables all the transparency effects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:28AM
That does also turn off some of the nice features of aero, such as being able to mouse over items on the task bar and get a thumbnail view of the application.
(Score: 1) by arthurdent on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:18PM
You'd actually like Windows 8, then. They've done away with the glass, see-through title bars on the desktop. Though, to be fair, you'd probably hate The User Interface Formerly Known as Metro.