So far I feel like it's a lot less foreign than Windows 8 was, but man, the metro stuff still needs a lot of work.
Before, we had the dichotomy between the metro UI and the desktop, and it just didnt work. Now it's been replaced by icons vs tiles, and metro apps vs windows apps.
The tiles still don't feel like they belong on the desktop. For instance, I drag a tile out to the desktop, and it creates an icon...which is a shortcut to that app. I drag it back, and it creates a tile that points to the shortcut. That's absurd. What should happen is when I drag the tile to the desktop, I get the tile on my desktop. If I drag a tile to the taskbar, it creates an icon....instead, IMO I should have the small version of the tile in my taskbar.
And as far as the metro apps themselves go...yeah, it's a lot better now that you can resize them. But they still don't feel right. The predominant form of navigation is horizontal scrolling, but I'm using a mousewheel that only scrolls up and down. Sometimes scrolling down scrolls it right, sometimes it doesnt.
So overall, I'm not finding much to be excited about yet. Win 8 felt like you were being coerced into using metro, no matter how poorly it fit with a desktop. It was a total turn off. Now, it feels more like it's being merely suggested that you try it. And when you do, you still won't want to use it. So it still begs the question as to why you'd want to use it over Win 7, if it's primary reason to exist is to make it feel more like Win 7. It's easier just to stay with Win 7.
I still have hope that they can get this right, because it's long overdue that windows gets a proper app store and moves into the 21st century.
Before, we had the dichotomy between the metro UI and the desktop, and it just didnt work. Now it's been replaced by icons vs tiles, and metro apps vs windows apps.
The tiles still don't feel like they belong on the desktop. For instance, I drag a tile out to the desktop, and it creates an icon...which is a shortcut to that app. I drag it back, and it creates a tile that points to the shortcut. That's absurd. What should happen is when I drag the tile to the desktop, I get the tile on my desktop. If I drag a tile to the taskbar, it creates an icon....instead, IMO I should have the small version of the tile in my taskbar.
And as far as the metro apps themselves go...yeah, it's a lot better now that you can resize them. But they still don't feel right. The predominant form of navigation is horizontal scrolling, but I'm using a mousewheel that only scrolls up and down. Sometimes scrolling down scrolls it right, sometimes it doesnt.
So overall, I'm not finding much to be excited about yet. Win 8 felt like you were being coerced into using metro, no matter how poorly it fit with a desktop. It was a total turn off. Now, it feels more like it's being merely suggested that you try it. And when you do, you still won't want to use it. So it still begs the question as to why you'd want to use it over Win 7, if it's primary reason to exist is to make it feel more like Win 7. It's easier just to stay with Win 7.
I still have hope that they can get this right, because it's long overdue that windows gets a proper app store and moves into the 21st century.