I generally dislike the changes, but don’t particularly care. Centered taskbar would be a real problem but they let you turn that off so, whatever?
A lot of changes will be under the hood, too. New scheduler to support the coming big core/little core CPUs coming from Intel.
Still looks like there’s a lot of placeholder in this early build. The build number predates known Sun Valley builds.
The artistic choices in the Out-of-the-Box experience are sorta dumb. Reminds me of XP.
Seems like the bottom left should be usable for something. Time and date or… something.
You can align the taskbar to the left, like every Windows since 95. But the system tray and clock are almost certainly going to get changed, too. They stick out horribly as is.
It’s just really lame that such an early build leaked. They almost made it to the reveal.
stusser
4764
Yep, I really don’t like it. Hopefully they fixed a lot of that stuff since.
Honestly, in an era of 16:10 and wider screens, putting a task bar on the bottom of the screen by default makes no sense. Vertical space is at a premium and horizontal space is in excess. They should have moved the taskbar to the side of the screen a long time ago. That’s what I’ve been doing since my LiteStep days.
My big question: Is it free or must I pay? I have grown accustomed to not paying, so forking over $ is going to be a bitter pill to swallow.
stusser
4767
On one hand you’re completely right in your reasoning, but on the other people got used to it on the bottom and you can always choose to move it if you want that.
Yeah, it has been possible to drag/drop the task bar for a long long time.
vyshka
4770
Hopefully they will take the same approach as with 10, and offer a free upgrade path at launch to drive adoption.
Maybe I’ll be able to get texts on my PC one day.
JD
4773
Can’t you just use the likes of Signal, Threema, WhatsApp or Telegram? They have browser-based versions or dedicated apps available. It’s how I write 90% of my text messages.
mono
4774
If you’re on Android, this has been available for years. iPhone… you’re stuck w iMessages and Apple won’t open it up.
You can do this with Messages today. Set it as your default and it’ll give you the option to sync with your PC in a browser. Works great.
rei
4777
Dell Mobile Connect. I posted in another thread how to get it working.
