Poll: Hands up those who like the "Modern UI"?

Which interface do you prefer?

  • prefer using Metro to the Win7 interface

    Votes: 49 27.8%
  • I prefer the Win7 interface to Metro.

    Votes: 98 55.7%
  • I'm undecided.

    Votes: 29 16.5%

  • Total voters
    176
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My name is James, and I like the "Modern UI" :eek:

There, I said it.

It does what it is intended to do and personally, I think it does it very well. A place where users can run small day to day programs with little else to worry about, they just work. No drawn out installations, configurations etc from the average Joe point of view.

Even as a long time Windows user, I dabble in the UI for some tasks and rather enjoy it.

As a dual screen user, I was dubious however snapping works well and uses the full vertical screen area.

Maybe web 3.0 will invalidate such a UI but for the current time, it works.

No trolling, be constructive.
 
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I don't "like" it but I don't have any particular distaste for it either. I suspect over time I may start making more use of it, but for the time being I just run in Desktop mode.
I can see the value in the 'widget' type approach whereby e.g. you have have tiles that are auto-refreshing content etc.

Moving mouse to the corner/side of screen, I don't think I'll ever be a fan of though, it can be quite fiddly especially when running extended desktop

I did find it frustrating at times though e.g. if I open IE10 'Metro' it takes me ages working out how to make it go away. I think I dumped it on my secondary monitor once!
Longer term I suspect I may go for some sort of Hybrid approach, Metro start on one monitor, desktop view on the other.
 
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Moving mouse to the corner/side of screen, I don't think I'll ever be a fan of though, it can be quite fiddly especially when running extended desktop.


If you've got them laid out horizontally - move the mouse to the top/bottom of the screen first, then slam it fully left or right - you'll stop at the corner you want.
 
OK for a tablet, awful for a desktop OS. I find the whole thing disjointed in relation to the desktop environment, so glad I installed Start8.

I may keep dibbing into it to see if there are any interesting apps and to try and create some sort of useful layout, but rather than being easier, for my uses it's just hard work.
 
It is a bit disjointed but i'm actually amazed at how well some of the apps work together. You can arrange windows side by side and I really like the way you can quickly switch between apps.

Maybe i just never bothered learning shortcut keys with W7 but W8 kinda makes you which is actually a very good thing.
 
Loving it, been using it as my home O/S for months now and its gotten to the point where I get frustrated using my Windows 7 workstation in work and often think to myself "this is so much simpler/easier in 8".
 
and I really like the way you can quickly switch between apps.

Care to expand on this? The only way I've found is hovering over the left of the screen to open running apps, although I assume there is an Alt-Tab shortcut too?

Is there another way, as if not, how are they quicker than clicking the icon on your taskbar?
 
Windows 8 is for devices. It’s not really for PCs.

I believe Windows 8 is great for tablets but it alienates PC users.

Windows 8 is an OK upgrade for existing PCs, just like it’s an OK OS to have pre-installed on new but traditional, non-touch-based PCs. It’s not bad. It’s just OK. On a device, however, a highly mobile machine with multi-touch capabilities, Windows 8 is a great choice. It’s full-featured, it offers the best of both worlds with both Metro and desktop interfaces, and it works very well.

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-review-part-8-verdict-144708

Who agrees with Paul Thurrott? I think he makes a lot of sense!
 
Care to expand on this? The only way I've found is hovering over the left of the screen to open running apps, although I assume there is an Alt-Tab shortcut too?

Is there another way, as if not, how are they quicker than clicking the icon on your taskbar?

Windows-Tab.

What makes it quicker is that you can click directly on what you want to switch to instead of having to cycle to the end of the list as in Alt-Tab.
 
Windows-Tab.

What makes it quicker is that you can click directly on what you want to switch to instead of having to cycle to the end of the list as in Alt-Tab.

Windows-Tab, Alt-Tab, same thing in effect no?

"click directly on what you want to switch to"? So that's the same as clicking the icon you want on the taskbar of any open app? Not trolling, but I don't see how that's quicker than the desktop way of switching apps, surely slightly slower in fact.

Also, unless I'm wrong, if you are using the "hover" method on the left of the screen, it only shows the last open app initially, and requires an extra "hover" to show all open apps.

I really find switching apps in Metro clunky, it's the main reason apart from the disjointed feel between both interfaces for not using it.
 
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Works fine for me. I have no complaints, and this is using it on my desktop machine. Just because it's changed, doesn't mean it's obstructive. I'm reasonably sure I can access anything I need just as quickly through the Modern UI as I could before.
 
OK for a tablet, awful for a desktop OS. I find the whole thing disjointed in relation to the desktop environment, so glad I installed Start8.

You don't need Start8. Just press the Windows key + X and it'll open a window which displays some of the hard to find options in the new desktop mode.

When starting normal programs pressing the Windows key to quickly switch between desktop and modern UI modes and then quickly clicking on the tile is actually faster than the start menu used to be. Once you get used to it the new UI is actually faster on a mouse and keyboard.
 
You don't need Start8. Just press the Windows key + X and it'll open a window which displays some of the hard to find options in the new desktop mode.

Start8 provides a "proper" Start menu plus allows you to boot directly into desktop mode, amongst other benefits.

Win+X isn't a substitute.
 
I've only used for a couple of hours but I quite like it. It will take a little while to get used to it I'm sure though.

The only thing I would prefer is if moving your mouse to the top left or bottom right opened their respective menus a little quicker or if a button popped up instantly allowing you to press (like moving to the bottom left for the start menu).
 
It's the first version of Windows designed properly to be used on mobile devices. It also offers advantages over previous versions of Windows that are not essential for anyone running Windows 7, but are not obstructive either.

The quote you've selected cannot really be argued with.
 
Of course it's for pcs aswell, it's just an os that's designed to work with multiple devices rather than just a computer.

Benchmarks have shown in most cases for games its the same/faster, only borderlands 2 shows a performance drop (of 5fps).

Considering it's in it's first week and it has performed pretty well, so a decent launch in my opinion, it will only get better
 
Makes sense. I'm not sure they ever advertised it in any other way.

The desktop is pretty much the same and everything seems to work a fair bit quicker (on my machine anyway).
 
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