Search: "It is the modern version of the command line!"
While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern command line".
While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern command line".
Here's my personal story with Windows 8. I built a PC about a month ago after using macs for several years. I'd heard all the horror stories about Win8 and was going to get Windows 7, but someone recommended that I get 8 instead, saying that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people were saying.
They were right, it's not, though it does have more of a learning curve than it should.
I missed having a start menu at first, but that went away when I discovered I could easily launch apps or control panels in a similar way to how I did it on the mac. On the mac I used Quicksilver - I'd hit ctrl-space type a few letters of the name and hit enter to launch the app. On windows 8 you can do the same by hitting the windows key, typing a few letters and hitting enter. In addition, I have the applications I use most pinned to the taskbar.
I'd originally planned to install one of the 3rd party start menus, but ended up not needing to.
I assume they mean nothing more than that.
The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-...