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Old 08-11-2012, 05:34 AM   #76
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I think the word "metro" is the least of their worries.
the new layout is totally different to any of their previous O/S.
If used in classic mode
" Windows 8 does not allow any other internet browser to function in the privileged Classic environment, which has provoked the ire of Mozilla and, presumably, other internet browser companies as well."
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Old 08-11-2012, 02:24 PM   #77
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I think the word "metro" is the least of their worries.
the new layout is totally different to any of their previous O/S.
If used in classic mode
" Windows 8 does not allow any other internet browser to function in the privileged Classic environment, which has provoked the ire of Mozilla and, presumably, other internet browser companies as well."
Seriously?
Didn't MS already fight and lose the OS-Integrated browser battle years ago?
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Old 08-11-2012, 02:57 PM   #78
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Seriously?
Didn't MS already fight and lose the OS-Integrated browser battle years ago?
Doesn't Apple only allow one browser on the iPad?
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Old 08-11-2012, 06:51 PM   #80
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With Windows 2000 being THAT much better!
And Windows 2003 being even better still.
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Old 08-11-2012, 08:26 PM   #81
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And Windows 2003 being even better still.
Windows 2003 is one of the best. Our server still runs this version. The only thing that ever caused it to crash in many years of using it is one program that isn't 100% compatible. Never freezes, never slow down, even with a number of people accessing the system simultaneously.
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Doesn't Apple only allow one browser on the iPad?
No, you can use as many different browsers as you can find and prefer.

Sent from an iPad using Icab browser... iPad safari browser was rubbish when we got this ipad... no tabs, terrible bookmarking and on and on.
Plenty of other alternatives, also.
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Old 08-12-2012, 03:33 PM   #83
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No.
Link to Chrome browser on iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome/id535886823
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Old 08-12-2012, 10:07 PM   #84
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In fairness, the product never was called "Metro". It was the name given to the new user interface, just as the Windows 7 UI was called "Aero". As I said earlier in the thread, these things always have development code-names; sometimes they live into the final product (as "Aero" did); sometimes they're dropped before the product was released (as "Chicago" - the code-name for Windows 95, was).
According to wikipedia Aero is a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open.

As I was looking to see if Metro was a backronym as well I found this:
Microsoft: It was never 'Metro,' it was always 'Modern UI'
Despite the title of the article, the author seems to think that it wasn't always 'Modern UI'.
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Doesn't Apple only allow one browser on the iPad?
Even if it were true, which apparently it isn't, it's not the same thing. No one said you can't make a device that only runs the software you want it to. The MS IE issue, IIRC, had to do with the idea of licensing the OS to vendors, and forcing certain application software in with the deal in an anti-competitive way, claiming it to be a integrated part of the OS.
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Old 08-13-2012, 10:22 AM   #86
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Seriously?
Didn't MS already fight and lose the OS-Integrated browser battle years ago?
Yes but this is what is being posted on various sites ref
"The classical mode option"

http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...k-ages-1079848
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Old 08-13-2012, 11:50 AM   #87
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Yes but this is what is being posted on various sites ref
"The classical mode option"

http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...k-ages-1079848
Note that that's talking about Windows 8 RT - the ARM tablet form of the o/s - NOT the PC version.
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Note that that's talking about Windows 8 RT - the ARM tablet form of the o/s - NOT the PC version.
And in the ARM Tablet arena MS has Zero constraints; they can bake anything they want into the ROM (like MS OFFICE). It's a whole new, "post-PC" world, after all.
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And in the ARM Tablet arena MS has Zero constraints; they can bake anything they want into the ROM (like MS OFFICE). It's a whole new, "post-PC" world, after all.
I've been saying this for a while now, and nobody seemed to care. Maybe they'll listen if you say it?
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I've been saying this for a while now, and nobody seemed to care. Maybe they'll listen if you say it?
Doubt it.
People only listen to what they want to hear; the source doesn't matter.
Repetition does seem to help a bit with some, though...
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