I'm just trying to imagine my wife's reaction when she turns on her computer at work and she's greeted by the start screen, and has no idea wtf is going on.
Going to a corner and having to click equals hidden button (since when were these a good idea in UI?). Not a hot corner.
Hot corners like the ones I use constantly on Mac are fast and efficient precisely because you just throw the cursor into the corner and back in one gesture, no targeting at all, no pausing, no clicking.
Having a real hot corner to trigger the Start screen sounds fantastic but I better be able to disable the need for click.
Alt-F4, or right-click on the open application on the Switcher.How the heck do you quit Metro apps? It seems that once you start them, they stay running (paused) in the background.
They were thinking: Lets design a OS that works on everything and is particularly suited to nothing. We'll saddle desktop users with touch paradigms that make absolutely no sense in that environment. That way we can bring back the traditional aggravation with windows that we did so much to alleviate with windows 7. Then let's drag 20 years of desktop baggage onto tablets, because that's been working so well in all our past tablet attempts.
They introduce an app store into a desktop OS, where touch is practically nonexistent, where you can only buy touch applications. Seriously????
I've got nothing against microsoft as a company. I actually liked Vista quite a bit. (I even wrote the tweak guide that was stickied here for years). Everyone loved Windows 7 because it was a great desktop OS that brought with it some brilliant ideas FOR THE DESKTOP, like the taskbar and superior window management. Instead of spending the last 3 years thinking about how they can make windows a better desktop OS, they literally spent their time on how to make it a worse one. Apple has been slowly porting over some features from their touch OS, but only if it makes sense, and tailors it for a desktop. For instance: Their desktop app store sells desktop apps. That's not a work of genius, thats common sense!
Has anyone looked at the GPO of the local machine? Maybe we can disable the metro layer and just have the desktop. That would be a start.
There's no way a metro is going to work in a corporate setting so there must be a way to disable it.
At this point we can only hope the backlash is so loud and vocal that they rethink their fundamental approach to this. This whole dual UI model is just crazy. It's mixing oil and water.
I don't see why they couldn't do a proper dual ui. A simple toggle for "Classic" and "Metro". It should be easy for developers to utilize both if MS makes decent APIs for it. "Classic" works the way things always have, and "Metro" would use the hidden menus, and overlays that make sense on a tablet. Mashing both styles together doesn't make sense.
The real question that begs answering is...why? Why have a dual UI in the first place?
The real question that begs answering is...why? Why have a dual UI in the first place?
Not sure what the problem is here. If the other apps are non-Metro, why don't you launch a non-Metro Word? It also seems likely that all those apps will be Metro after a transition period.The Metro GUI is terrible for multi-tasking on a desktop / laptop.
Let's say I'm putting together a ppt presentation. I'm using the desktop and have ppt loaded, a couple of tabbed browser pages and Paint. Now I need to launch Word -- I have to go back to the Metro menu to click on the tile - which launches the full-screen iteration of the program rather than windowed on my desktop.
This has what to do with OS? Different browsers and their various plugins already offer many different ways to switch tabs. I use my web browser mostly from keyboard, for instance.Full-screen IE browsing? Yeah it looks great, but how in the heck do I swap between tabs?
They released it in a dual mode now because they intend metro to be the only interface going forward but could not just cut off the old legacy stuff..... yet.
This really comes in with the new app store.... all apps going forward will be there and those apps work consistently across the desktop, tablet (and eventually phone and tv). Even now you have a separate store for ios and osx or android and chrome. Windows 8 is the beginning stages of creating an interface that will work across all the devices.
Not sure what the problem is here. If the other apps are non-Metro, why don't you launch a non-Metro Word? It also seems likely that all those apps will be Metro after a transition period.
This has what to do with OS? Different browsers and their various plugins already offer many different ways to switch tabs. I use my web browser mostly from keyboard, for instance.
I can't even imagine the headaches normal people will have trying to figure out things that have largely been the same for what 10-15 years? Even mundane tasks like shutting down your PC are literally impossible to find unless you know what your looking for. You have to navigate over the the lower right hand corner of the screen, hover your mouse and wait for the charms menu to come up, click on power and then hit shutdown. This is going to be hard for people who just want to use their computer and get their work done, but aren't necessarily tech savvy.
I don't see why they couldn't do a proper dual ui. A simple toggle for "Classic" and "Metro". It should be easy for developers to utilize both if MS makes decent APIs for it. "Classic" works the way things always have, and "Metro" would use the hidden menus, and overlays that make sense on a tablet. Mashing both styles together doesn't make sense.