Windows 8 is going to be a flop. Behind the Metro UI, it isn't even really that different from Windows 7. I'll just stick it out a few years until they add the start button back into Windows 9.
Windows 8 is going to be a flop. Behind the Metro UI, it isn't even really that different from Windows 7. I'll just stick it out a few years until they add the start button back into Windows 9.
How big of a flop do you think it will be?
Windows 8 is going to be a flop. Behind the Metro UI, it isn't even really that different from Windows 7. I'll just stick it out a few years until they add the start button back into Windows 9.
Overall I'm still on the fence about it, but I see what they are trying to do, and the response from the tech press has been pretty positive, even gushing in some respects.
I hate that opening Metro completely blocks your view from the rest of your desktop.
I hate that the tiles aren't in any sort of easy to navigate structure.
I hate that you have to scroll it left and right just to see all the tiles.
It isn't even that I hate change. It's that MS would take a very good UI, and completely scrap it.
They're large, small, different colors, different sized texts, text all over inside of the tiles, not in alphabetical order. I'd consider myself a power user, and that doesn't make for a good/quick workflow.How so?
Well didn't you have to scroll up and down in the start menu?
They're large, small, different colors, different sized texts, text all over inside of the tiles, not in alphabetical order. I'd consider myself a power user, and that doesn't make for a good/quick workflow.
I mostly use the recent programs that the start menu lists for me, and the search if I can't find something.
You can put them wherever you want. It needs an option to add a most used section near the front, but really, if you don't like the order it puts them in, you just change it.
And just like in Vista / Win7, you hit the KB shortcut to search Metro and start typing. Or you move to the corner and start typing. It's really not as different as people are making it out to be. It takes all of an hour to adapt to the new styles.
In the end it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. It's the same crap viewed in a different way. It's not the end of the world. If you're smart and use keyboard shortcuts it's pretty much the same amount of time to navigate to stuff since Windows 2000.
People who are objecting to it without trying it are probably the same people who belly moaned about Vista, then praised Win7, which was Vista SP1 with lipstick (and more time for drivers to mature.)
What I'm not getting from this post is how Metro is better than what came before.
What I'm not getting from this post is how Metro is better than what came before.
I have no first-hand exp. with 8 yet but it VERY much looks and smells like a big fail to me.
If i'd want a tablet computer i would get an iPad, and on my desktop i do not need a tablet/touch OS.