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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Google on Windows 8

You may have seen indicators that the Windows 8 user interface is vastly different from anything that has come before it. It looks sort of like the periodic table of the elements:


Apparently this buries Google services. On Windows 8, setting Google as your preferred search engine or changing the default browser now take many more steps.

Google has set up a web site to help. 

2 comments:

  1. There is supposed to be a classic shell that puts everything back.

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  2. A column I read about Windows 8 implied that you can't do everything you might want to do from the classic shell. This might've been Pogue in the NY Times.

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