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And it has already happened! heatlesssun (the more annoying version of Dotmatrix) proclaims smooth sailing: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1040742236 And another former W8 lover joins in saying that Windows 8 was "only an experiment".

Yay. But as I said earlier, I predict a "we were never at war with".. scenario. The metrotards may moan now for a a few days, maybe even weeks, but eventually they will parrot the line that they never had something against the start menu or the desktop in the first place. And that "choice is good". Just watch. I also think that Dotmatrix will slowly but surely vanish (at least the user name). His gig didn't work out, there is no reason to keep him around.

Very good, and incisive as usual. The description of a typical iPad user's hypothetical reaction is right on the mark There's quite a shocker on page 2 that could traumatize you... some user revealed the incredible: Did you know that Apple provides software like iWork to ultimately... make money from it?!!!!!! SHOCKING!

Office for iPad is surpassing Windows 8 and the xbone in terms of NuMicrosoft fail - you need a subscription just to edit documents! I've decided this warranted another C9 rant (scroll down): http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Office-for-iPad

Nice Xbone & NSA rant: Link.

They did. Here you can see "Evildictaitor" (my most persistent sparring partner) shilling (literally, he is a MS employee) for Vista Dreamscene, Silverlight and WPF back in the days: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/255491-Whats-going-on-at-Microsoft/4983627f4ddb4639bd409dec0086e556 http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/255491-Whats-going-on-at-Microsoft/edf470e8541b4d75992c9dec0086e4ed http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/255491-Whats-going-on-at-Microsoft/f611651d614a439f80489dec0086e985

This is epic. Not least is the amount of patience and calm that you were able to deploy against some of these folks. I find it annoying even to read through them, let alone trying to compose replies without going nuts!! --JorgeA Thanks. For more "going nuts" experiences, I heartily recommend this thread: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/E3-Smackdown It's not my best performance (in opposite to most threads, I've lost my cool a few times here), but its one of the threads where the apologists are ultimately entering loon-territory. Inane comparisons and ad-hominem attacks galore! It's long but worth it for the ultimate "I want to tear my hair out reading this!"-experience.

By the way, here are some more C9 classics from my Enfant Terrible (wastingtimewithforums) days there, in case you missed them: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Microsoft-still-in-denial http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Reasons-why-desktop-programms-cant-be-installed-from-the-app-store http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Dick-move https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-81-is-the-OS-equivalent-of-phishing-mail http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-Windows-8-nadir http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/E3-Smackdown http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-and-why-is-it-OK-to-ban-second-hand-games http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-and-Line-of-Business-Applications-No-Good-Options http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Desktop http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Irony http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-future-prospect-of-Windows-8-today http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Amnesia-and-scare-tactics http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Telemetry- http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Microsoft-still-in-denial-phase-over-W8-possible-relaunch-in-February http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-8-flops-and-Microsoft-are-to-blame http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-desktop-as-SaaS http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Windows-Blue-should-bring-back-the-DVD-codecs http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-cat-is-out-of-the-bag http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/File-management-Shove-it http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Sinofsky-The-more-crapware-the-better http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/There-is-no-end-of-life-XP-problem http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/When-Microsofts-design-teams-were-sane http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/New-anti-Win8-video-is-making-rounds http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Monopoly-Microsoft-was-more-customer-friendly-than-todays-friendly-Microsoft http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Troubleshooting-You-dont-need-that http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-long-will-Windows-8-the-terrible-last-Any-bets http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Microsoft-continues-to-please-their-existing-customers Looks like a wall of link, but I guarantee you that most of them are a metrotard blast. Maybe I should compile them all into a book, "diaries from the metro trench". The links are not in chronological order, but you should still be able to see how certain W8 and NuMicrosoft apologists got shrieker by the day.

The software store on the Mac is far more successful because it offers desktop applications on a desktop computer, while the Windows store is offering craplets on the same format. Common sense and absolutely obvious. I can remember I brought up that point on Channel9 during the W8 beta timeframe, the hardcore shills shrieked like banshees at the thought of offering "legacy" on the store. Edit: Found the C9 thread: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Alright-the-Windows-8-appstore-is-a-non-starter-except-for-fart-apps

So, first the companies in 'rich' places outsource jobs to 'poor' places since it was much cheaper to build things there. Then when those places become 'rich' and they run out of 'poor' places to exploit they outsource the jobs to robots. And very soon products will be produced and sold for great profit, however no people anywhere will be working so they won't be able to afford them. Sounds like a great plan. Food for thought: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0874777798/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1QDK789NE79DXKKCPZCA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846 The "future" is that most work is being done automatically through robots and computers, humans get pocket money from the governments to spend on toys manufactured by bots.

Good post on Techbroil: http://www.techbroil.com/2014/02/when-will-lies-end.html When will the lies end?So the reddit thread with the Windows 8 designer has been making the rounds. Even though Sinofsky's plan has (bullhorn) FUCKING FAILED we still have NuMicrosoft trying to play some stupid game with us and their employees seem to think we can't see through it. Well let's see what he has to say: Metro is a content consumption space. It is designed for casual users who only want to check facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes So what is (casual or power user) about taking a user who opens a pdf and forcing them into a full screen view of the pdf with no close/minimize/maximize buttons or any indication of how to close the file or switch away from it. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user. Well Sinofsky told us Windows 8 was Windows "without compromise" so I guess he was fucking lying then? We separated the users into two groups. Casual and Power. We made two separate playgrounds for them. Uh-huh and then you force anyone in the desktop back into Metro if they hit a the Windows key, enter a hot corner, open a file that has been associated with Metro, or want to change a setting that is now inside Metro. What in the hell is your definition of "separate"? So why make Metro the default? And why was there no way to boot to desktop in Windows 8.0?The short answer is because casual users don't go exploring. That makes zero sense. Why not hide the setting from casual users? Like Sinofsky he of course won't answer these types of follow-up questions. ALL Microsoft employees use the "answer and run" scheme. Answer a few questions from the start and then run like hell when when the follow-up questions come since they make your initial answers look like TOTAL FUCKING bul*****. Fucking cowards that can't defend their own products. Pathetic. One more I have to respond to: (asked why Metro is in Windows Server if it is for casual users) Didn't work on server, but I'm guessing it's because we didn't want to fragment the codebase moving forward. It's kind of annoying though since we've migrated a lot of basic settings to the metro side. That, by my own admission, is a mess. Classic Shell is 5.4 MB which would make it just another utility in Windows Server that isn't in Windows 8. Or in other words, Windows Server is already fragmented beyond belief you think adding a 5.4 MB utility on top of OS code is fragmentation. NuMicrosoft employees all seem to have at least one of the following traits: 1. Delusional 2. Technically Ignorant 2. Full of shit. I honestly believe they have a corrupt culture that requires some of these traits just like the mob requires certain amoral characteristics. They have around 60k employees and I haven't read ANYTHING that resembles intellectual honesty from a poster or blogger claiming to be a NuMicrosoft employee. Surprise me NuMicrosoft employees, get on a forum and say you know what, we really fucked up and that's the end of it. Just admit you plain fucked up because that is all you can do at this point.

Here are some more posts regarding the Windows 8 UX designer: http://www.techbroil.com/2014/02/intel-has-saved-microsoft-on-tablets.html?showComment=1392720850738#c4276986131543924159

New NSA stuff to rile you up:

Well, wanting something and getting it are two different things. Microsoft also wanted to transform Windows into an Android and iOS competitor. How has that turned out? If they will force a cloud only-Windows (especially on businesses outside the US!), the sparks will fly. The meltdown will be gigantic: The Windows 8 backlash would be picknick compared to it. It will be fun to watch though.

FF, I got two more contenders for the crown. I admit it, your favorites outclass Avatar Roku by far. "Race guy" is not only a contender for being the metrotard-prince, that one posting alone catapults him almost into the same sphere as DotMatrix. It's like Mozart in reverse: You can't believe one single person is able to craft such pieces... Watch out Dottie, compared to the metrotard Wunderkind, you could end up as Salieri soon.

MEGA-revealing comment from "Avatar Roku" on Neowin (the number two metrotard after DotMatrix) about the boot-to-desktop rumor: http://neow.in/news/report-windows-81-update-defaults-to-desktop-on-startup Wut? The desktop is used for: Office, non-appy PC games, video editing, music editing, writing more than two sentences, developing, blogging, accounting, image editing, homework assignments, work etc. (most of this either doesn't work on tablets or is so gimped that it's outright useless, in handling and functionality) If he isn't doing any of this stuff on his computer, why was he on Windows and PCs in the first place? The iPad is four years old already! He should have bought one years ago and be done with Windows if it is useless for him. Why are the metrotards so adamant turning Windows into a bad copy of the iPad if they could get the iPad? (or Android pad)? Hate for Apple/Google? Complete comment: "I am a diehard"? Diehard what? Microsoft fan? How and why if he had no use for a PC in the first place?

Man, with all these news, I could cut through Channel9 like through butter. But it would be like kicking someone who is lying on the floor already. Anyone else noticing that the metro-aficionados are getting demotivated? Case in point is NuMicrosoft enthusiast and former MS employee Hal Berenson (hal2020.com), formerly a total metro fanboy, now posting about how the Xbone is failing him, how tablets won't be the sole computing devices on earth and how much Windows 8 has failed.

Further proof what a crazy f***ed up industry this is. She was called a fool for stating the f* obvious? It's like putting control sticks (joystick) into cars and expecting that everyone will adapt to that, despite all the decades of being used to a wheel and the stick paradigm not fitting cars at all. "Copters have joysticks too, what's your problem!? Afraid of change?" Yeah, who knew that such a product with such a attitude would bomb with the customers, gee.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desktop ReactOS (the Windows clone project) wants to go big and they started a kickstart project for that (which is cool). Problem is, they market is as a "cloud OS" solution (which is dumb). Genius move, dickheads. Instead coming up with a true Windows alternative (given NuMicrosoft and W8, a noble goal), you're converting it into yet another cloud thing?!

Not only the neotards, MS itself must be pissed about this too.

I don't think the there is a cost-issue with the the XP activation servers. My guess is that that there are no "Windows XP servers" a such, their activation servers probably activate all MS products and are not grouped by specific products (adding new products to them is most likely just a software update). The transit cost in bandwidth between them and us and back is probably negligible since it is a pre-packaged globule of secured bits, but the processing on either side is what I meant. The bulk of the cost of WPA was long ago pushed onto and permanently inflicted on the victim locally at bootstrap noticeable during the Windows XP Boot Screen when hardware hashing is calculated and verified against a local file, and it is very safe to say that step alone has cost a fortune in Windows XP customer CPU electricity and of course, wasted time. I'll bet that is a HUGE dollar cost considering the user base size, and much slower and watt burning CPUs seen in the XP era. On early Pentium 4's that screen is easily 30 seconds to a minute by itself, the majority is the WPA routine which is obvious if you used Win9x/Win2k/WinXP on the same motherboard and BIOS revision. I am sorry to say that, but you're way off here. XP boots quick on fresh installs, even on Pentum 4 hardware (I know that, I have still a notebook from that era). The more stuff you had installed, the more fragmented the HD was, the longer the boot, but it was quick on a fresh install, way faster than Windows 2000 on the same hardware. The trick was simple though: They asychronized some stuff on boot on XP that was strictly processed in order on Windows 2000s boot process, also, some processes were off-loaded to the end of the boot process: XP showed already the desktop while it was still loading some things, while 2000 only showed the desktop when everything was already finished (because of this though, 2000's desktop was usable immediately once it was on, while XP's often had some lag for a few seconds). Some typical experiences from that time: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/215420-46-faster-2000 One must add though that Windows 2000's boot time is really long, and 98 would probably boot faster than the NT based versions on the same hardware.

I don't think the there is a cost-issue with the the XP activation servers. My guess is that that there are no "Windows XP servers" a such, their activation servers probably activate all MS products and are not grouped by specific products (adding new products to them is most likely just a software update).

Crazy thread on Techbroil with a Microsoft employee apparently: http://www.techbroil.com/2013/12/merry-christmas.html?showComment=1388609591251#c1432342518922817001 All that drama is about the "temp"-directory in Windows. MS employees are surely persistent, as seen with their W8 shilling.

I love it how open these guys are: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ And: US Spy Agency Boasts 'Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach' With New Logo Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nrol-39-logo-nothing-beyond-our-reach-2013-12#ixzz2nY8HEjwm http://www.businessinsider.com/nrol-39-logo-nothing-beyond-our-reach-2013-12

Great, now that there are signs that Microsoft is maybe finding back to sanity, Firefox caught the Nu-virus and follows NuMicrosoft and NuOpera. If I want Chrome, I would use Chrome. Unbelievable that they are doing this after the debacle of the chromified Opera. There are only two browsers now: Chrome and IE. Dang, this looks a lot like the Windows 8 style: Watching the Firefox promos is like reliving the "Destroying Windows" blog phase before the W8 release. "Australis has two primary goals: To make Firefox look and feel modern, and to create a unified look and feel (UI/UX) across every one of Firefox’s platforms — from Windows to Linux, from smartphones to tablets." Hardcore deja vu. "It is not a coincidence that the new main menu has big, touch-friendly icons — and likewise, the increased spacing between UI elements throughout the interface is for the sake of touchscreen users, not mouse users. Ideally, Mozilla would love to have a single codebase for the UI that can be easily ported between different screen sizes and platforms — Australis is a big step in that direction." "The real story here, of course, is that Mozilla is trying to stay relevant in a field that is increasingly being dominated by Google and Apple." - Is there an unwritten law somewhere, that you have destroy your products to do this? I am even reading already some "you're afraid of change!" posts in the comments! Life is great.