Every last impecuniosity totally exterminated

squilliondollarbaby

The biggest expectation is that the update to Windows 8, codenamed Blue and due within a few weeks, will revive the start button that had been familiar to users for 17 years but which was removed from the new version.
If correct, it will be a U-turn as momentous in its way as Coca-Cola's abandonment of "New Coke" in 1985 just three months after its launch following consumer protests.
Tami Reller, promoted to head Microsoft's Windows division after Ballmer ejected former chief Steve Sinofsky in November, announced on an internal Microsoft blog on Monday that Blue will be "an opportunity for us to respond to the customer feedback that we've been closely listening to" since the October launch.
"Are there things that we can do to improve the experience? Absolutely," Reller told the Associated Press. "There is a learning curve [to Windows 8] and we can work to address that."
The principal challenge for experienced users of Windows is the total absence of a Start button, familiar since 1995 as the place with all their programs and shortcuts stored in a huge list. Windows 8 instead introduces a layer of giant "tiles" over the traditional desktop.
But users find that perplexing – so much so that one of the bestselling apps on Windows 8 has been Stardock, which lets the user add the start button back in, and ModernMix, which lets tile apps run on the old desktop. That will have given Reller pause – along with the fact that sales of Windows PCs have shrunk for the past four quarters, declining sharply year-on-year by 11.4% between January-March to about 74m.
The blame for that was put squarely at Sinofsky's door by Bob O'Donnell of the research company IDC: "At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," he said.
"The costs associated with touch have made PCs a less attractive alternative to dedicated tablets and other competitive devices."

squilliondollarbaby

I must say that the bloke up for the Tia killing is 100% going to get 25 years minimum and will have to watch his back inside, well not just his back - his eyes and his throat etc.

Can't believe humanity sometimes :mad:

RootedNomad

EMMAP wrote: »

Sorry I've created confusion. New to this and probably using the wrong terminology. Didn't mean to annoy anyone.

You're fine EMMAP. Peeps can call it whatever they like, it is still a bargain If there were a multibuy glitch at A that resulted in getting £1.25 fairy wul for 32p, folk would be over it like a rash. All comes to the same thing so keep spreading the word

scamps1966

squilliondollarbaby wrote: »

If Chelski win tonite they're in the CL on GD v Spurs.

1:0 up after 10

Tell me about it!!
My son's devistated!!

squilliondollarbaby

HUGE TASK FOR TOTTENHAM NOW


A point's not much use to Tottenham tonight, and manager Andre Villas-Boas agrees. “We are in control of our own destiny, but that means coming to Chelsea and winning the game,” he said before kick-off. “A draw takes it out of our own hands.” A defeat's not much use, either.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4919497/Chelsea-v-Tottenham--Live-score-stats-commentary.html#ixzz2SjJ0uwis

tweets

squilliondollarbaby wrote: »

You never know, they say talks have stalled and that could be for the very good reason that Manure want to grab him.

He's always floated around and not in love with any club despite what he says.

Will be :j:j if we do.
Unsure about Moyes and dont know who that other guy with specs is think they said Klope and he was German :eek:

scamps1966

1-1 chelsea an Tottenham:D

Call_of_Trouty

RootedNomad wrote: »

You're fine EMMAP. Peeps can call it whatever they like, it is still a bargain If there were a multibuy glitch at A that resulted in getting £1.25 fairy wul for 32p, folk would be over it like a rash. All comes to the same thing so keep spreading the word

Agreed

s10ct

squilliondollarbaby

No way are they giving that job to some Klop nobody's ever heard of!

TrulyMadly

izzeyb wrote: »

Half of me is heading for the shower, but the other half has car keys, shoes and coat and lippy ready

I've got me coat on:cool:

Hurry up excel:)