Win 9 and Aero rumour.....

If you get smoother scrolling and video with aero disabled then your gfx card or drivers maybe well be broken since dxva uses directx to draw everything and aero uses it to draw desktop windows and animations.

Frere should be no difference in scrolling or video performance either way with it on or off on any modern computer, hell even phones run full hd to a TV wireless ly these days.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
You are the uninformed.
Uac is alive and well in windows 7 and working as it should, and only gives annoying messages when programs install, or programs are run which can have direct core effects on your system, or programs are badly written.
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uac may as well be disabled by default... its of no use to 98% of people they dont know what it means and click yes regardless...
 
edscdk said:
uac may as well be disabled by default... its of no use to 98% of people they dont know what it means and click yes regardless...
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It's added protection and has caused me very few issues since Windows 7 (Vista's constant "Are you sure you are sure?" style UAC was a joke) so I don't see any reason it should be removed.

With regards to Windows 9 + Aero? Seems a bit odd, when they have toned it down for Windows 8, citing performance increases, yet they want to bring it back? Seems a bit far-fetched as a rumour. Regarding Windows 9 in general I won't get excited unless they bring back the Start menu UI, at least as an "Option" to the current Start Screen UI interface.
 
Im holding my hand up here and mentioning i disable UAC on both my win 7 and win 8 pcs, flame away. I think with 2 firewalls things are pretty safe (i also dont leave my pc on the time so i would know if something is being installed)
 
theone8181 said:
Im holding my hand up here and mentioning i disable UAC on both my win 7 and win 8 pcs, flame away. I think with 2 firewalls things are pretty safe (i also dont leave my pc on the time so i would know if something is being installed)
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Doesn't stop you getting infected by a dodgy download, dodgy website, external media, etc...

Sandboxing the OS is by far and a way the best way to achieve this. Disabling UAC is moronic at best.

I find it funny that if you were to ask a bunch of Linux users if they log in as root on a daily basis, most would answer "hell no", yet the elevation of UAC is nothing short of sudo in linux/mac.
 
paradigm said:
Doesn't stop you getting infected by a dodgy download, dodgy website, external media, etc...

Sandboxing the OS is by far and a way the best way to achieve this. Disabling UAC is moronic at best.

I find it funny that if you were to ask a bunch of Linux users if they log in as root on a daily basis, most would answer "hell no", yet the elevation of UAC is nothing short of sudo in linux/mac.
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My point is that i am the sole user of my pc, stuff doesnt just download itself. Its not left running 24/7 its only on when im infront of it so i see whats going on. IMO dodgy stuff gets downloaded by people clicking dodgy links altho i will concede that some links dont look dodgy.
 
Paradigm is right bro, when you make erroneous statements claiming features are in or out, expect to get called out on it and then take being wrong like a man...
 
I'd also like to mention i thought its being called 8.1 or is this going to be the version after. I also read that the next version(s) of windows will be free but im taking it with a huge amount of salt.
 
Uac is inaffective because people never read the messages anyway and just click "ok". On 2012 it's infuriating having to run up command prompt with elevated permissions and running up notepad from there to edit certain files in certain locations.
 
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With Microsoft updating every 2 years, I hope their upgrade prices are good - I could go for another £25 update like with windows 8

MW
 
mrk said:
If you get smoother scrolling and video with aero disabled then your gfx card or drivers maybe well be broken since dxva uses directx to draw everything and aero uses it to draw desktop windows and animations.

Frere should be no difference in scrolling or video performance either way with it on or off on any modern computer, hell even phones run full hd to a TV wireless ly these days.
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And yet it's definitely the case for me. Happened with a Q6600 @3GHz, 4GB of ram and an 8800GTX, still happened when I changed to a GTX 460.
Now I've got an i5 3550, 32GB of ram and a Radeon HD 7870 and it still does it.

This is over multiple installs of Vista x64 (initially) and 7 x64 on all machines.

It's not a framerate issue, it's more like microstuttering. I suspect that the directx rendering of the browser and/or the video is smoother when the desktop isn't directx rendered because there are less interrupts/calls for DX rendering which interrupt the rendering of the video and/or browser.
 
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Windows 9. Little or no multimedia support, bare OS with option for a browser depending on US or EU. They will be giving you precisely what Apple give you. A place to install all your apps. The problem is that if you are a newbie to computers and you had a choice between an Apple system and a Microdoft system, which would you choose?
There may be a few selling points for those who are going to give software packages away or give year's subscriptions in a package but in today's market that is going to be a hard sell. Hmm.... An OS that doesn't operate anything unless you have more money?
 
jeffa123 said:
Windows 9. Little or no multimedia support, bare OS with option for a browser depending on US or EU. They will be giving you precisely what Apple give you. A place to install all your apps. The problem is that if you are a newbie to computers and you had a choice between an Apple system and a Microdoft system, which would you choose?
There may be a few selling points for those who are going to give software packages away or give year's subscriptions in a package but in today's market that is going to be a hard sell. Hmm.... An OS that doesn't operate anything unless you have more money?
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Sorry, but where is this *mis*information from? Sounds like whining drivel to me.
 
gareth170 said:
it's just a rumour, nothing official.

tbh i'm not bothered about Aero
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I think everyone who ever goes into the Windows forum is well aware of your opinions on Aero and Metro.

As for the article, the Alphas are still subject to complete change even if areo is currently in there. I can't see MS moving away from their strategic view of metro.
 
Good, forcing the hideous metro interface for desktop users was a bad idea from the word go...

If you were branching out to the tablet market, at-least segregate the two experiences on to their suited platforms.
 
DJMK4 said:
Good, forcing the hideous metro interface for desktop users was a bad idea from the word go...

If you were branching out to the tablet market, at-least segregate the two experiences on to their suited platforms.
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The choice for primary interface is in Windows 8.1.
 
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