Confirmed: Windows Blue Will Be Free, to Be Called 8.1

linktoinsanity said:
Would be very happy if they brought back the old Start Menu... ;)

I'll be interested in what 8.1 will bring to the table however, see if it brings an improvement to the Windows 8 experience at any rate.
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I just use Start8 on my laptop. It is literally just the start menu from Windows 7. No stupid little problems or tweaks, just pure 'proper' start menu goodness :)
 
theheyes said:
Nope. About 50% of users choose to sleep over shut down according to MS.
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And then there are people like me, who just leave their PC on 24/7 unless I need to re-start to make something work or put it in hibernation to dust. :D
 
Infidelus said:
1 with power button
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I don't understand why people dont just use the power button to shut down...
It has been fine to do it that way for ages, it's the same as clicking 'shut down'. You can even change what pressing the power button does... :D

Infidelus said:
The Windows desktop works exactly as it has for the last 18 years, with the exception that you no longer have a 'classic' start menu. Getting to the Windows desktop currently takes a single click, and when 8.1 comes out it will apparently take no clicks, so if you don't want to use the interface that's designed for the tablet and touchscreen users, nobody's forcing you to. Go to the desktop, open a dozen applications and multi task to your heart's content.
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This ^

As a side note, the way I use windows 8 is exactly the same as the way I use windows 7. You can completely ignore all the silly touch optimised Metro stuff if you want (apart from the start menu) and even then, a simple application such as Start8 or StartIsBack will restore the Windows 7 start menu and make the system boot to desktop by default...
 
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More evidence that Metro is a failure:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039...-windows-8-users-rarely-touch-metro-apps.html

The news isn’t wonderful. Of the 10,848 Windows 8 devices studied by Soluto, the majority of traditional desktop and laptop users—even ones using a device with a touchscreen—fail to open a modern-style app daily. (Note that this study refers only to modern apps, not to traditional desktop programs.) Even on tablets, the devices best suited for Windows 8’s modern UI, just 56 percent of all users launch a Windows 8 app day in and day out.
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I don't know what on Earth the 46% of tablet users are doing if they aren't using metro style apps.

If I got a statistical result like that I'd go back to figure out what I did wrong.
 
Minstadave said:
Its per day, so one possibility is some people aren't using their tablets daily.
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You may be right, but in any case I've just re-read the article and the term used is 'launched', as in, 'how many times a day will a Windows 8 user launch a metro app?'

Now what constitutes a launch? Starting the process? Because if that's true you could theoretically use metro apps all day long without launching a single one if all you've done is re-hydrated them from suspend. I probably should read the source article.
 
I think the most shocking bit of news from that article for those who hate windows 8 is that 40% of windows 8 desktop users launch more than one metro app per day!. omg how is it even possible to do that with a mouse and keyboard.

anyway stupidity aside were in a transition period so I don't find those figures too surprising and isn't necesserally just down to the metro interface but the apps within it which is where Microsoft really dropped the ball along with not having tablets actually ready in time and rt metro only ones aren't included in those results so only x86 with desktop, hardly evidence for a failure of the new interface when there are so many contributing factors that will affect the results. When you consider most people will still have all there desktop apps and presumably want to keep using them so its not that surprising that the majority of windows users are still using it for what windows traditionally does, with that considered then the figures at least show that its getting some people interested. personally I find it a pretty complimentary interface to my desktop, my experience echo's confused recent post, I use three screens and find it superior to any previous version of windows I really like things like the Netflix app etc, and live tiles for my weather and news etc all there when I turn on the machine I can give them a quick overview and if i'm not interested just a click to the desktop. The more time go's on the more I am appreciating windows 8 and the new interface!.
 
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V F said:
Apparently the keyboard is too much.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/382042/microsoft-reinstates-the-start-button-on-a-mouse
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That ties in to what I was saying a few pages back about the Start button/key not being obvious enough as a home button. Microsoft obviously recognise the problem. They should make the key a solid colour on their keyboards, too.

And with regards to that metro failure article, I thought I recognised the name 'Soluto'. That was the group that reported 'the most reliable Windows PC is a Mac'. Obviously their modus operandi is to troll around generating link baiting headlines and wait for it to get posted around the net as 'evidence'.

Unfortunately people fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
 
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