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It's a Pro feature and Microsoft tends to ship a lean distribution tailored to the customers needs in order to provide superior user experience.

quickben 9y ago
The user experience gets better with more options. A 'superiour' user experience implies lots of options. I.e. luxury car with all the gadgets, etc. A stripped down application, void of options, doesn't provide a 'superiour user experience's. If anything it provides cheap entry model.
- rbanffy 9y ago
  > The user experience gets better with more options. Not really. Better UX comes from better options, not more, poorly thought out ones. The options available fit the purpose of the device. A luxury car has features tailored for comfort. A real luxury car focuses on the back seat. A sports car has featured tailored for "feeling" and controlling the car. Having more options brings a superior experience only if your goal is to do multiple things, some never done before, sometimes in unexpected ways. Sometimes you use `sed`, others `awk` and there are days `cut` will cut it.
  - quickben 9y ago
    I'll only partially agree to that. In the segment of operating systems, windows differentiated and promoted 'home' 'pro' 'ultimate' , etc. They already paved the terminology and more importantly trained the users to expect it. Many users after, got really annoyed with Windows 7 ultimate being upgraded to only win 10 pro. So in the case of Microsoft Windows, superior means something different than Apples IOS where superior means less (removing of the physical escape key, audio ports etc).
    - rbanffy 9y ago
      Apple is a great example of a "luxury computer". Their machines are solid, have decent battery life and don't bother with gimmicks like touchscreens which bring ambiguity to the UI (tooltip shows when you hover, but you can't do that via the touchscreen, only by dragging a pointer through a trackpad - argh). Their most recent bold move was the touchbar, that brought in fingerprint scanning and set of soft keys (esc included) that vary according to the task you are trying to accomplish. The lack of a physical esc key doesn't bother me at all.

quickben 9y ago

The user experience gets better with more options. A 'superiour' user experience implies lots of options. I.e. luxury car with all the gadgets, etc. A stripped down application, void of options, doesn't provide a 'superiour user experience's. If anything it provides cheap entry model.

rbanffy 9y ago
> The user experience gets better with more options. Not really. Better UX comes from better options, not more, poorly thought out ones. The options available fit the purpose of the device. A luxury car has features tailored for comfort. A real luxury car focuses on the back seat. A sports car has featured tailored for "feeling" and controlling the car. Having more options brings a superior experience only if your goal is to do multiple things, some never done before, sometimes in unexpected ways. Sometimes you use `sed`, others `awk` and there are days `cut` will cut it.
- quickben 9y ago
  I'll only partially agree to that. In the segment of operating systems, windows differentiated and promoted 'home' 'pro' 'ultimate' , etc. They already paved the terminology and more importantly trained the users to expect it. Many users after, got really annoyed with Windows 7 ultimate being upgraded to only win 10 pro. So in the case of Microsoft Windows, superior means something different than Apples IOS where superior means less (removing of the physical escape key, audio ports etc).
  - rbanffy 9y ago
    Apple is a great example of a "luxury computer". Their machines are solid, have decent battery life and don't bother with gimmicks like touchscreens which bring ambiguity to the UI (tooltip shows when you hover, but you can't do that via the touchscreen, only by dragging a pointer through a trackpad - argh). Their most recent bold move was the touchbar, that brought in fingerprint scanning and set of soft keys (esc included) that vary according to the task you are trying to accomplish. The lack of a physical esc key doesn't bother me at all.