2013年7月13日星期六

OEMs in the end of August having a customer update sooner

  When Microsoft added assistance for the revamped Get started page into Windows eight.1, that eliminated the want for dedicated third-party Begin menus, suitable? Incorrect, say developers like Stardock, Classic Shell, and other people.
  Perhaps not surprisingly, the third-party devs say there is still a need to have for their products, even though Windows 8.1 might be additional friendly to those used for the traditional, or legacy, Start out menu discovered in Windows 7. Quite a few have released updates for the Windows eight.1 preview, but none that spoke to PCWorld stated that they've thrown within the towel.
  These solutions fill a need: to ease the transition to Windows 8 and its unfamiliar Commence web page. In several approaches, Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with a tablet interface layered on leading of it, but?asorry!?ano Start off button. Users upset by the jarringly different Start off page had no refuge from it besides third-party alternatives.
  "The commence button shortcut to the start screen that Microsoft is providing with Windows eight.1 will not replace the get started menu within the eyes of our developing customer base," Robert McElroy, the advertising and marketing and sales manager at Stardock Corp., said in an e mail. "Customers in search of the functionality on the classic start menu to help them navigate Windows eight in a way that has been familiar to them for many years will nevertheless locate Start8 from Stardock enables that capability seamlessly."
  Microsoft, for its element, has said that Windows 8.1 represents a "heck of a great deal of movement, a heck of a great deal of innovation, as well as a heck of a whole lot of responsiveness, all coming to industry within a extremely incredibly rapid timeframe," in the words of Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer during the company's Develop 2013 conference in June.
  Many of the functionality that the third-party applications added for Windows eight users, on the other hand, now overlaps with some of what Microsoft has added for the upcoming Windows eight.1. Start8, Classic Shell, and StartMenu8 all boot straight for the desktop, which means that piece from the puzzle, at least, is duplicated by Microsoft. But all 3 also offer the conventional Start out menu, with Classic Shell offering either a "classic" menu, or one within the style of either Windows XP or Windows 7. (Classic Shell's windows 7 ultimate activation key version three.six.8, released in June and compatible with Windows eight.1, was asked to get rid of its version in the Windows flag, which it calls the "Metro button", in the behest of Microsoft.) For its portion, Start8 also gives an selection to shut down from the desktop, that is now in Windows eight.1 as well.
  Nevertheless, the developer of Classic Shell mentioned that his item was as viable as ever. "Nobody killed something," he stated, through an exchange although his Facebook page. "The only function they added that Classic Shell (and other people like it) has, is definitely the instant boot to Desktop."
  The query now is regardless of whether or not Microsoft's Windows 8.1 update, as well as the functionality it added, offers but extra opportunities for developers like Classic Shell to add attributes. They will have some time; Microsoft has said that it will hand over Windows 8.1 to OEMs in the end of August, having a customer update sooner or later thereafter. PCWorld asked the developers what their plans are, however the Start out developers aren't speaking.
  "Too early to inform. It is actually nonetheless a preview, not even a beta," the Classic Shell developer mentioned. "Even without it I've my hands full at the moment."

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