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Search: "It is the modern version of the command line!" While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern

Search: "It is the modern version of the command line!" While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern command line".

wmeredith 13y ago
This sounds like a "faster-horse" feature to me. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-what-they-wanted-they-would http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-...
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  When he came up with the Model T, people already had trains, trams, electric cars, and bicycles at their disposal. One has to wonder whether the world wouldn’t have been better off without Henry Ford’s gasoline automobiles.
- xentronium 13y ago
  Pedantic nitpick: Ford most probably never said or written that.
tezmc 13y ago
They might mean for launching apps by typing and using auto-completion. Here's my personal story with Windows 8. I built a PC about a month ago after using macs for several years. I'd heard all the horror stories about Win8 and was going to get Windows 7, but someone recommended that I get 8 instead, saying that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people were saying. They were right, it's not, though it does have more of a learning curve than it should. I missed having a start menu at first, but that went away when I discovered I could easily launch apps or control panels in a similar way to how I did it on the mac. On the mac I used Quicksilver - I'd hit ctrl-space type a few letters of the name and hit enter to launch the app. On windows 8 you can do the same by hitting the windows key, typing a few letters and hitting enter. In addition, I have the applications I use most pinned to the taskbar. I'd originally planned to install one of the 3rd party start menus, but ended up not needing to.
arrrg 13y ago
It's a text-based interface for browsing files and launching programs. You know, what many people used to do with a CLI when they had it. I assume they mean nothing more than that.
- jpreiland 13y ago
  Okay. That's what I sorta assumed, but I wasn't really sure. I was just wondering how their "modern CLI" handled tasks other than searching for and launching stuff (which it probably doesn't). I don't think the "modern command line" description was optimal from the perspective of someone who uses the current command prompt (Windows 7, I haven't touched 8 yet but I might soon) to do development stuff. The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.

Search: "It is the modern version of the command line!" While the search feature they're describing sounds cool, I'm curious as to what they mean by a "modern command line".

wmeredith 13y ago

This sounds like a "faster-horse" feature to me. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-what-they-wanted-they-would http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15297-if-i-had-asked-people-...

Samuel_Michon 13y ago
When he came up with the Model T, people already had trains, trams, electric cars, and bicycles at their disposal. One has to wonder whether the world wouldn’t have been better off without Henry Ford’s gasoline automobiles.
xentronium 13y ago
Pedantic nitpick: Ford most probably never said or written that.

tezmc 13y ago

They might mean for launching apps by typing and using auto-completion. Here's my personal story with Windows 8. I built a PC about a month ago after using macs for several years. I'd heard all the horror stories about Win8 and was going to get Windows 7, but someone recommended that I get 8 instead, saying that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people were saying. They were right, it's not, though it does have more of a learning curve than it should. I missed having a start menu at first, but that went away when I discovered I could easily launch apps or control panels in a similar way to how I did it on the mac. On the mac I used Quicksilver - I'd hit ctrl-space type a few letters of the name and hit enter to launch the app. On windows 8 you can do the same by hitting the windows key, typing a few letters and hitting enter. In addition, I have the applications I use most pinned to the taskbar. I'd originally planned to install one of the 3rd party start menus, but ended up not needing to.

arrrg 13y ago

It's a text-based interface for browsing files and launching programs. You know, what many people used to do with a CLI when they had it. I assume they mean nothing more than that.

jpreiland 13y ago
Okay. That's what I sorta assumed, but I wasn't really sure. I was just wondering how their "modern CLI" handled tasks other than searching for and launching stuff (which it probably doesn't). I don't think the "modern command line" description was optimal from the perspective of someone who uses the current command prompt (Windows 7, I haven't touched 8 yet but I might soon) to do development stuff. The search bar on the Windows 7 start menu does what they're talking about to some extent (though I'm betting not nearly as nicely, and it certainly doesn't return web results). I know I just hit Windows Key > first few letters of an application > Enter to launch several things on my Windows 7 machine already. Sounds like they're making a supercharged version of this for 8.1 that includes web results/Skydrive stuff and the like.