YouTube Video Shows How "Real People" React To Windows 8

Consumers downloaded the Windows 8 Consumer Preview over a million times in less than 24 hours, but we're willing to bet that the majority of those downloads came from the technically inclined rather than, say, your parents. The tech world has already proclaimed what it likes and doesn't like in Windows 8 -- but do everyday people really care if W8 has an enhanced contact app? Can everyday people even locate the contact app in W8? Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo decided to put the W8 interface to the test by plopping his elderly father down in front of the new OS with no introduction.

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[video=youtube;v4boTbv9_nU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU[/video]

 

[MINKIN2]

Agreed, we could go on all night and divert the topic further. For the record, the "screensaver" tangent does not reflect my career qualifications which are very real. We seem to be at logger heads over power cycles and the low level workings of the hardware v software interaction.

 

[Jav]

We are obviously fake people

Knew it, damn it...

 

[CB]

Well.

Computer is world of real sciences, I think.
It says A when it's A, unless there were something wrong with man, machine, and codes on the process.


Kevin

 

[Hopachi]

One of my neighbors kept shutting here XP system down - with the switch on the surge protector. She had routinely done that for years - never had any problems.

Hmm.. good/lucky hardware there.

If the hdd was pretty inactive or didn't defragged at the moment then there should be nothing to worry about. You can get data corruption or in a worst case a headcrash (still I think the heads of a hdd can land safetly at spindown).

 

[GMan]

Immediately, and I mean i-m-m-e-d-i-a-t-e-l-y when I saw this:

I let certain of my PCs run 24/7 other have the sleep mode enable, you can use the power button of the case to shutdown.

I knew it would start "that" discussion.

FWIW, there is no harm at all done by using the power switch to turn off a pc by holding it for 5 seconds.

The reason the hardware engineers of today's pcs placed a power button there and allow the machine to turn off by using it, is because it's actually ok and well to use.

They'd be fired if it were not.