Dear Microsoft, You're not special

[IronWing]

so please stop designing your products to grab focus. It pisses me off. "You appear to be entering a password in another application, so we thought you would like a Microsoft product to grab focus right now. "

 

[dabuddha]

This has to be one of the vaguest rants ever

 

[DesiPower]

posting on epic fail rant/potential thread backfire thread

/ibtl

 

[dank69]

I dunno if this is Microsoft specific, but I hate that shit, too.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

 

[techs]

I just got an infraction for a rant. Pretty similar
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2322559

 

[BladeVenom]

I just got an infraction for a rant. Pretty similar
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2322559

Except yours was in the OS forum.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I just got an infraction for a rant. Pretty similar
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2322559

Not even remotely similar.

 

[Pardus]

so please stop designing your products to grab focus. It pisses me off. "You appear to be entering a password in another application, so we thought you would like a Microsoft product to grab focus right now. "

What are the odds Microsoft will ever see this posting ?

 

[ElFenix]

so please stop designing your products to grab focus. It pisses me off. "You appear to be entering a password in another application, so we thought you would like a Microsoft product to grab focus right now. "

try turning it off with powertoys?

I just got an infraction for a rant. Pretty similar
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2322559

rants are OT.

 

[IronWing]

What are the odds Microsoft will ever see this posting ?

Bill Gates would be a fool not to follow ATOT. I don't think Mr. Gates is a fool (except when it comes to grabbing focus, then it's full-on retard).

 

[AMDZen]

I just got an infraction for a rant. Pretty similar
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2322559

Yea, the Windows 8 interface blows and MS knows it, which is why Windows Blue aka 8.1 is going to reinstate the Start Button the way it should have been in the first place

 

[Brainonska511]

Yea, the Windows 8 interface blows and MS knows it, which is why Windows Blue aka 8.1 is going to reinstate the Start Button the way it should have been in the first place

I understand the desire to bridge the gap between phone, tablet, and full-blown computer, but MS went too far for the desktop/laptop market. But I use each item for different tasks, because each is suited for different tasks. I don't need or want a touch-style-inspired interface on my desktop or laptop.

 

[Oyeve]

Bill Gates would be a fool not to follow ATOT. I don't think Mr. Gates is a fool (except when it comes to grabbing focus, then it's full-on retard).

I hardly think BG even focuses on whats up with MS. Hes like retired and doing great charity work.

 

[AMDZen]

I understand the desire to bridge the gap between phone, tablet, and full-blown computer, but MS went too far for the desktop/laptop market. But I use each item for different tasks, because each is suited for different tasks. I don't need or want a touch-style-inspired interface on my desktop or laptop.

Android and iOS already own that mobile market and MS will never be anything more then 3rd place in that, IMO.

So I don't need that gap bridged because the only device I'll own that is MS will be my computer. My mobile life will always be Android or iOS for the foreseeable future with no MS in sight. And after the XBOX one release I'll be buying a PS4 instead so even that inroad is lost on me and many others.

 

[Pheran]

Yea, the Windows 8 interface blows and MS knows it, which is why Windows Blue aka 8.1 is going to reinstate the Start Button the way it should have been in the first place

No it isn't. They are adding a totally worthless Start button that instead of giving you the Start Menu, takes you back to the Metro interface. :thumbsdown:

See this thread.

 

[techs]

try turning it off with powertoys?



rants are OT.

I actually thought I was being appropriate by ranting in the correct forum!

Poor me.

/rant

 

[techs]

No it isn't. They are adding a totally worthless Start button that instead of giving you the Start Menu, takes you back to the Metro interface. :thumbsdown:

See this thread.

Yeah, MS is a Start button tease.

 

[darkewaffle]

Dear Ironwing, You're not special
so please stop designing your posts to grab focus. It pisses me off. You appear to be overreacting to something meaningless, so we thought you would like to know that nobody alive or dead ever cared.

 

[brandonb]

It's cool these days to bash Microsoft.

(ps. they make good products, even if they aren't perfect)

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Bill Gates would be a fool not to follow ATOT. I don't think Mr. Gates is a fool (except when it comes to grabbing focus, then it's full-on retard).

I may be ignorant in regards to the topic at hand, but I question if the mirror is in front of you when you bring up retard.

He's obviously winning when compared to most on this board.

 

[Midwayman]

Not just MS. My favorite is when you're typing something in the address bar of a browser and it finishes loading or something and wipes everything you're writing.

 

[techs]

How DARE you complain that I liked the previous way of doing things?

Newer is always better. And more expensive.

 

[BoomerD]

Dood...if you're using a Microsoft OS, then it IS speshul...and gives MS products the appropriate level of importance.
How can you not understand?

 

[techs]

Whatever happened to Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Bob?