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4 days ago, cbae wrote

...on an iPad:

http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-courier-concept-lives-on-as-apple-ipad-app-paper/

Oh .. and it currently sucks. After listening to the warnings that it isn't that great I gave them my £1.99 and tried it out. They have a *lot* of work to do. I'd start with the note taking and handwriting capture which was awful & unusable. They're next goal has to be to get the note taking working better than Notability.

I'm still a Courier believer though and hope these guys keep at it. At the moment I just see it that I've sponsored their project to the tune of £1.99. I hope they use my investment wisely.

Mar 06, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Simo wrote

@CreamFilling512:Ah ha. That's good to know. What does the other screen(s) do?

That brings the size of my Win8 app launcher down to 1920 x 1080. Excellent 

Oh cool. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

My gripe is solved. As you were folks.

19 hours ago, blowdart wrote

Notes.

I really really despise Notes.

+1 for Notes

@CreamFilling512:Ah ha. That's good to know. What does the other screen(s) do?

That brings the size of my Win8 app launcher down to 1920 x 1080. Excellent 

@Richard.Hein:Agree. But my biggest gripe is to have to do all this in full screen. At my workplace  the standard for new desktops is 2 x 23" monitors. That's a garishly coloured, contrastingly different UI app launcher sized 3840 x 1080 every time I hit the Windows key.

@Richard.Hein: Hmm close, but what I really want is a keyboard shortcut to get this

and this

@magicalclick:Hah, cool.

I seriously think there's a market for a text based quick launcher (aka Win7's Run/Search bar) for Win8's classic mode.

3 days ago, Sven Groot wrote

I do not want a full screen experience to launch applications.

This was my worry before they released the CP and it was confirmed after trying the CP out.

I'm happy for the Start Menu to die, rarely use it, and I do understand that my cheese needs to be moved for progress to happen. 

But.... in Win7 my standard MO to launch less popular apps/get to a setting is to hit the Windows key & start typing. Now I have to hit Win+Q and I get a face full of Metro. At work I'd get two big screens of Metro in my face every time I do this. Not good.

I also struggled to figure out how to shut the thing down! I had to Google it. Couldn't figure it out. Was almost tempted to do a "shutdown -s -t 01" at the command line. Maybe an issue my mum & dad would not struggle with as they prefer using a finger and a physical button. And maybe we'll be letting Win8 just run & run.

Am wondering whether anyone can recommend a better way of launching apps from the keyboard in 'classic' desktop mode?

Oh and, for a laugh, I recommend installing Win8 in a VM running on VMWare Fusion and hitting the Win+Q search-an-app shortcut

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/21/using-the-language-you-want.aspx

I am actually deliriously happy there'll be an edition of Windows with 'favourites' and 'colour' etc. Probably OTT reaction and I do understand the POV of people who say "well what difference does it really make" but the news made my day. THANK YOU.

After I told a couple of people in the office the rather predictable "Terribly sorry to interrupt however you appear to be entering into correspondence" jokes started. So we're all now eagerly anticipating Windows 8 - Downton Abbey edition.

36 minutes ago, magicalclick wrote

1) Replace Outlook with Windows Live Mail

At least that's what I am doing at home. Also it works very well with Hotmail, which in term, is awesome with WP7. Works better with hotmail because whatever I did on WL:Mail, it will be reflected on my hotmail, Contacts, Calender, Block List, and Spam button. Outlook has too many features that, I would have to keep track what settings are local and not supported on Hotmail.

Gmail killed Outlook in my home.