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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 18:38:29 -0400
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On Fri, 4/4/2025 3:05 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:31:10 -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> The TaskBar today in Windows, has a feature that makes it descend below
>> the bottom edge of the screen, yielding more screen space. Microsoft did
>> not invent that, but the MacOS did at some point in the past (perhaps
>> MacOSX 10.1 or so). Since that's optional, you won't see that happening
>> on every user desktop here.
> 
> I never liked UI elements that move when you try to click on them, or that 
> make you click off the screen (Windows 8.0 did a lot of that).
> 
> [snip]
> 

Windows 8.0 may have had gestures.

One of them may have been swiping down
the right side of the screen.

They tried to introduce 10-point touch, but for desktops,
there were not a lot of monitor offerings with the hardware
support for that. the only gesture that comes to mind there,
is "grab and rotate", done with the fingertips.

Windows 8.0 had the "full screen mode" for Apps, where the App
lacked an "X" for dismiss, in the upper right corner. You
could use Alt-F4, to escape from that. There is a video of
a test subject, who kinda freezes up and does the "deer in
the headlights" face, in response to there being no "X"
in the corner :-) That got fixed in Windows 8.1 .

   Paul