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Yesterday i brought her her new laptop on which i installed Windows 8.1. (She had XP till then)
The first question was:
"Does this Website still work like before?"
i smiled 
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Quote: "Does this Website still work like before?"
She has a point. Windows 8.1 comes with the beta of Web 3.0.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And a rattle, a teething ring and a trial pack of Huggies...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I don't have Windows 8 on any machines however I have watched some tutorials and am aware that webbrowsers in metro mode do not(or did not) have flash enabled on them - so using a browser in panel mode as opposed to desktop mode may mean that a website does not work like before.
However this may have been fixed.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: However this may have been fixed.
We hope, but I guess not...
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Is enabling Flash really considered to be a fix?
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HobbyProggy wrote: "Does this Website still work like before?"
Which explains the push to make our desktop experience just like the browser experience. 
Marc
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Doesn't explain it to me. It's great to have the grandparents onboard, but the younger generation is a much bigger user pool and they don't need a browser experience to use their devices.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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HobbyProggy wrote: "Does this Website still work like before?"
Your Grandma likes The Code Project????  
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Ahahaha that grandma is a professional developer 
Watch out what your are saying, she's watching you
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< rant >
Can someone tell me why, when you tell users to do things like:
- open windows Explorer
- in the screen the appears, navigate to folder "x"
- Run Word, click on "Open" and navigate to your document.
and then they act like deer in headlights, they almost always say "well I'm not a techie/compter expert, etc..." in a sarcastic tone??
When the mechanic tells them to check their oil in their car, do they say "well I'm not a mechanic/car expert"?
Sheesh. Is it too much to expect someone who uses a computer/car/appliance on a regular basis, to actually know something about what they're using?
< /rant >
Thank you for your time. We now return you to your regularly scheduled hell.....
-EM
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emartinho wrote: Can someone tell me why, when you tell users to do things like:
< sarcastic deer in headlight >
Well no I can't, as I'm not a techie/compter expert...
< /sarcastic deer in headlight >
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< Pulls out a shotgun and fires >
DIE! 
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you forgot to close your tag, you have now broken the internet
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It is embedded in HTML, and should work on IE6...
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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< /Pulls out a shotgun and fires >
Fixed 
Edit: the closing tag disappeared the first time, ist really broke
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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The Internet will forever know of the shotgun that took 44 minutes to pull out and fire.
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Maybe a few screenshots in written instructions would help?
emartinho wrote: When the mechanic tells them to check their oil in their car, do they say "well I'm not a mechanic/car expert"?
Yes, many people would answer that way. The key is to know your audience/users. IMHO, users are not the bane of our existence, they're the reason we have jobs. 
/ravi
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Absolutely!
If they don't understand what you are telling them to do, you are saying it wrong.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Not usually. Techies are just too fast most of the time. Like when you press anything with WinKey or FX and they turn all deer-faced.
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That isn't their problem - that's ours!
If we don't explain it well enough (and that includes speed of delivery) then it is our fault. If you bought a washing machine and couldn't work out how to set it to "spin only", but the sales droid went so fast you couldn't follow it whose fault would that be? And most software is orders of magnitude more complex than a washing machine...
We have a responsibility to users to ensure that we explain things in ways they understand.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I blame it on the difference in caffeine intake, since it's not politically correct to blame anyone now, except Society.
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I personally liked the fifth Niven's Laws (from Known Space)
Seemed very relevant to a tech/user interface. (Yes, stories works too.)
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