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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then no one would have noticed and sysadmins everywhere wouldn't have their PTSD triggered by the words "charm bar".
Shit, now I need whiskey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For those of us not in the know (or who have suppressed it), wtf is a charm bar? All Google points to is 90% jewelry and 10% generic metro stuff.

I didn't use Win 8 or 8.1 for long, though. And i've only used 10 and 11 via work, set up by a pretty reasonable admin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It was the auto-hiding replacement for the task bar. You opened it by moving the mouse pointer to the upper right or lower right corner. But unless you remembered where it was at, you'd get stuck asking, "where the fuck is the start menu". It especially sucked when you were a normal version of windows and RDP'd into a Sever 2008 box and couldn't use the Win key.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You opened it by moving the mouse pointer to the upper right or lower left corner.

in the corner and then gesturing the mouse up or down. The fact they put this abomination onto the server version, trying to do that at in an RDP or VNC window was the worst. We moved as much as we reasonably could off Windows Server at the time, and rushed standardising on server 2012 for the stuff we couldnt when it came out just because of how toxic interacting with Server 2008 was. I mean a Win for EoL software, but still

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's this strange, strange in-game-style menu that pops up if you pull from the right(?) edge of the screen in Windows 8