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    Windows 1 versus windows 8



    The more things change. the more they stay the same I guess.

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    Re: Windows 1 versus windows 8

    In some respects, you have to applaud Microsoft for trying something different!
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    Re: Windows 1 versus windows 8

    A big difference in my mind between Windows 1 and Windows 8 is DRM. Windows began to be significantly infected with DRM, 15 years after the release of Windows 1, in 2000. Between 1985 and 2000 one could very effectively avoid DRM by purchasing Microsoft products.

    DRM did exist back in 1985. It was called "copy protection" back then and consisted among other things of deliberately creating bad sectors on 5.25in floppies. Something I always keep in mind when I hear the term "Defective by Design".

    Microsoft was a very different company back then in more ways than one.

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    Re: Windows 1 versus windows 8

    earlier it was on a workstation and now on a tablet
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    Re: Windows 1 versus windows 8

    Um... how about no. Windows 8 most certainly does have resizeable windows, both in desktop mode and in metro. Want proof?

    http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5819/windows8.png
    IE10 running side by side to the weather tile.

    Stop this FUD.
    Last edited by MonolithImmortal; September 23rd, 2011 at 02:00 AM.

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    Re: Windows 1 versus windows 8

    Quote Originally Posted by MonolithImmortal View Post
    Um... how about no. Windows 8 most certainly does have resizeable windows, both in desktop mode and in metro. Want proof?

    http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5819/windows8.png
    IE10 running side by side to the weather tile.

    Stop this FUD.
    is that internet explorer? pretty!
    Last edited by Tibuda; September 23rd, 2011 at 02:20 AM.

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