Stop? Microsoft removes the 'Start' button from Windows 8

[d000hg]

But all Windows OSs since that have been NT-based, thus breaking your pattern: Win2K good, XP good...

Wasn't XP the merge of the two threads? You couldn't play games on 2000 properly.

How do the client/server versions of Windows differ these days... I assume there are architectural differences?

[xoggoth]

I tend to write my own little pop up things to access stuff anyway. Good ol' VB6 still has its uses.

[AtW]

Oh no, now we've got months/years of AtW telling us he can't use his computer because he can't learn new things. It's the Ribbon all over again. AtW just buy Office and Win8 for Dummies and you'll be fine.

I can't use Excel 2010 effectively anymore and now they'll turn Windows 7 into pile of tulip

Also, what was wrong with DOS 6?

It was very disappointing release in terms of what's improved - DOS 5 was much better in most respects.

[Sysman]

Wasn't XP the merge of the two threads? You couldn't play games on 2000 properly.

How do the client/server versions of Windows differ these days... I assume there are architectural differences?

Yes, XP was the first official release of the NT work to the masses.

I gather that Windows Server 2008 is Vista with the crap taken out. My first impression of it was that it was the best Windows version I'd used so far. But I'm not a games person.

Similarly Windows Server 2008 R2 is Windows 7 without the graphics and games. Or to rephrase that, Windows 7 is Server 2008 R2 with its useful backup utility replaced by a pile of junk, and other useful bits missing, plus crappy effects like transparency added. But you need the Windows 7 graphics if you want to play games or do high end graphics work.

[d000hg]

I can't use Excel 2010 effectively anymore

Says a lot more about you than MS. You're either too old to learn new things, or deliberately not learning it so you can complain, or genuinely a retard. Since you have actually got a working product, I think the last one is unlikely.

[kingcook]

Says a lot more about you than MS. You're either too old to learn new things, or deliberately not learning it so you can complain, or genuinely a retard. Since you have actually got a working product, I think the last one is unlikely.

Don't beat around the bush d000hg, tell 'em like it is

[lilelvis2000]

Makes we want to download the pre-beta version through MSDN and have a look.

I wonder if it will work in Windows Virtual PC on my Win 7 box?

[Spacecadet]

Says a lot more about you than MS. You're either too old to learn new things, or deliberately not learning it so you can complain, or genuinely a retard. Since you have actually got a working product, I think the last one is unlikely.

surely that should be "most likely"?

[kingcook]

Makes we want to download the pre-beta version through MSDN and have a look.

I wonder if it will work in Windows Virtual PC on my Win 7 box?

I installed it in VirtualBox. Worked ok.

[Ignis Fatuus]

How am I going to shutdown my computer without a start button?

AS400 had a POWER OFF command. The manual explained carefully that it was really the command POWER with the parameter value OFF. I always wondered how you could use it with the parameter value ON.