5/30/2023 0 Comments Hate windows snap assist![]() It offers an example of two apps snapped together, one with 70 percent of the display and the other with 30 percent. The report says this will use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to find the right app, via a word or image they are searching for.įinally, Windows Central says Microsoft is experimenting with allowing Snap Assist to dynamically change the app percent ratio. And until I get it, I will stick with Window 7 for my work and home machines.Another new feature that's reportedly in the works will let users search for apps in the snap suggestions interface. Truth is, I want my flexible, scalable, customizable Windows back. In its place us an ugly, evil corporation that has seized control of the desktop and allows you to…change the pretty colors, or label the list of tiles they create for you without your permission or interest. The ability to control your own computer, which has been a facet of Microsoft operating systems since 1982, has disappeared. For gosh sakes, who put Microsoft in control of my computer? Word defaults to save documents on SkyDrive, not my drive. Messages in Outlook.Com get deleted for no reason. Nothing is more infuriating than having to re-boot the system to find your way out of some application that used to have a simple “X” in the upper left hand corner. I didn’t pay what I paid for genuine Microsoft applications to find that they work about half of the way they used to. If I wanted crippled applications, I would use shareware. Quit crippling applications to make them work like they work on a cell phone.I have unlimited calling and texting on my cell phone. Those days are long over, and I am sick of Skype being in my face every time I turn around. That’s a 90’s technology that made sense when everyone paid an arm and a leg for a land line. It is our desktop, dammit, and we want it back! Frankly, Microsoft has crassly seized control of your desktop and will not allow you to customize it much beyond the color and a few do-dads. Version 8.1 enables you to place a label on your group of apps, but you still can’t create a tile named “system utilities” and place all of those apps under it. I don’t really wish to scroll through hundreds of apps and widgets just to find that one program I want. No Microsoft, no Blackberry, and no Ubuntu. Accounting apps are developed for IOS and Android. In case you have not noticed, no one that the company can’t strong-arm is developing for this platform. Quit trying to hawk the Microsoft App Store.What would I do to make the whole mess better? Here is my short list of six enhancements they could make: So I don’t particularly like Windows 8.1. This means that your entire bandwidth will be tied up for days trying to synch your desktop with their cloud application, with absolutely no ability to opt out or put SkyDrive on hold so you can actually work on that computer. ![]() SkyDrive will be even more deeply imbedded into your PC.On the other hand, you get the power of Bing! to help you buy even more stuff from Microsoft! But the Microsoft App Store is still a far cry from those of Apple or Google. The apps are vastly improved – to drive you to Microsoft’s app store to buy things.Excuse me, but wasn’t this what Windows 95 was all about? Gosh, the ability to open two windows on the desktop at that same time… Snicker! You can have up to eight “snap views” open at the same time, so long as you have two 2560×1600 resolution monitors. There is an expanded “Snap View” that…wait for it…allows you to open more than one application at a time, and re-size the window for each application to your own liking.Never mind that there was virtually no way to escape this interface in Windows 8…now you are forced to look at it in yet another way. Instead, it just takes you to the same old Windows 8 Metro Modern User Interface. No, it does not work like the old start button. So what has changed in this new version of the most hated Microsoft operating system ever? Here’s the short list:
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