{"id":10624,"date":"2015-01-31T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:12:10","slug":"windows-10-re-crappifying-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/windows-10-re-crappifying-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Re-Crappifying Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/windows_10_re_crappifying_windows_8\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/windows_10_re_crappifying_windows_8\/\">\n<p>Windows 8 was a bold attempt to fix this, and to throw out much of that accumulated debris. And, surprisingly, it has worked to a pretty respectable degree. Windows 8, particularly when running Metro apps, is an operating systems that is much simpler than any other desktop OS. And Windows 8, unlike iOS, has managed to achieve this without losing much, if any, of the power of a traditional desktop operating system.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 shows that Microsoft has lost that courage, pummelled into submission by the same kinds of vocal users who, back in the 80s, decried Windows itself, and demanded that people keep using DOS. In hindsight, I doubt anyone still thinks that this would have been a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But instead of fixing the things that are genuinely wrong with Windows 8, and providing some additional amenities for people who came from earlier versions of Windows, and improving the experience on mouse-driven systems, Microsoft took away many of the things that made Windows 8 work, and brought back Windows 7&rsquo;s UI clutter wholesale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Mathis: Windows 8 was a bold attempt to fix this, and to throw out much of that accumulated debris. And, surprisingly, it has worked to a pretty respectable degree. Windows 8, particularly when running Metro apps, is an operating systems that is much simpler than any other desktop OS. And Windows 8, unlike iOS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-16T20:12:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"0ee95278-2a97-46ce-bd7c-ca9506da4d5a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-16T20:12:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADulSeCqXRs69fMqVBtpNWg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,37,785,219,1030],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-windows","tag-windows-10"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}