MICROSOFT'S NEW WINDOWS 8 IS ACTUALLY NOT WINDOWS!

I’m one of windows 8 enthusiast that’s why when i learned it's available, right away I downloaded it and installed the release preview version. And I’m REALLY surprised to find out that windows 8 is not actually windows! don’t get me wrong, I know it got plenty of windows code under the hood but the User-Interface in windows 8 is so different and uses in such different ways that it’s much better to think that it’s a completely new operating system that replacing the old windows.

Microsoft has chosen not to follow all those best practices that we used to know. And as a result I think there’s gonna be some real risk in windows 8 transition. In any case, you would be a fool to ignore the changes that where going to be made by windows 8 WHEN IT RELEASES IN THE MARKET this OCTOBER 26.

I listed 5 major things I discover after experimenting and stirring WINDOWS 8 that causes me headache.

1. Windows 8 has a totally new default interface: Metro UI. When I look at Metro, however, I see colors, designs, applications that can either run as a small tile or as full screen with NO WAY TO RESIZE OR MOVE WINDOWS!

2. MICROSOFT HAS DROPPED THE START BUTTON IN WINDOWS 8! Almost everyone knows the current Windows interface. It's changed over the years, but you could take someone who last touched Windows back in the Windows 95 days and drop that in front of them of Windows 7 and they'd be able to get work done.

3. A touch interface, but PC’s and laptop users can't touch it. Metro UI real point, of course, isn't for desktop users. It is design basically for tablet users.

 

4. I can't think of a single significant new improvement in Windows 8. Faster booting? A Windows Store? Live boot from a USB drive? Come on! All these features have been around in other operating systems for years, and while sure, they're nice, put them all together and at most they're worth a Windows 7 Service Patch--not a whole new operating system. 

5. I think about the poor Windows programmers. You've spent years learning .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and now they have to learn WinRT and Jupiter/XAML.

'SHARE' AND 'LIKE' IS A VIOLATION UNDER CYBER LAW

excerpt from gma news

 Sharing something about yourself may be a violation under two existing anti-cybercrime laws, a University of the Philippines (UP) professor said at a forum. Technology law expert said in a forum that the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and its twin, the Data Protection Act of 2011, attempt to protect all personal information and this might explicitly threaten how netizens naturally use social media.

"Whenever you say anything about something else, even about yourself, you may already be breaching a person's privacy rights. You disclose personal information," he said. The lawyer explained that "personal information" is any piece of information that can be linked to a person's identity, the revealing of which is a purported crime under the two measures.
He added that the restrictions the new cyber law has placed on how users share information online is a form of censorship.

"All existing crimes committed through technology are now cyber crimes," he said. A human rights lawyer, who was also at the forum, warned that online content producers--which can be anyone--can be sued more than once under the new cyber law. "If I publish one article against someone in [both] my blog and my print column, I can be sued twice: One before the [Regional Trial Court] and one under the Cybercrime [Prevention] Act," he said.

He said that one of the main implementation problems of online libel as indicated in the new measure is to whom the crime will be blamed on.

"Problem with the cyber libel provision is you do not know who will be held liable. In the original libel law, editors, journalists and publishers are liable. You also know the venue, the number of people subscribed to it," he said.

Even internet providers who do not originally have responsibility over content can be held liable under the new cyber law since they are the equivalent of publishers, he added.