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
A week or so in now? I'm really liking the new interface. I used metro approx. 50-50 with desktop - I'm a developer, so all my development tools are desktop only.
I have no issues moving the mouse to the corner of the screen (I have 2 24" screens), my mouse sensitivity is such, that I can span a screen by moving around an inch, a slight wrist movement - so this isn't an issue for me.
Everything is fast and fluid, and I can quick change full screen metro apps between screens with 2 key presses.
I use windows 7 at work and have found myself subconsciously moving to the corner to pop up the charm menu!
The first few days I really wasn't certain - now I've gotten used to the change and enjoy it. I can see how others wouldn't want to adapt though!
 
Glaucus said:
Try reading this thread, the love far outweighs the hatred.

You get a context menu that can be anything or nothing. I'm metro you have a standardized menu, that is good for everyone. Even better for developers with standised search.
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Not sure one can use it as a business model though - make love not war. :p

Most new iterations of an OS offer real world improvements. I'm not sure W8 does this.

The way I see it MS are taking a calculated risk in trying to force users to adopt this new way of working in the realisation they may well alienate a lot of customers. They know they have to get into the tablet and phone market as a big player or risk becoming a bit player in the tech world - hence Windows 8. However, I remain to be convinced that they haven't already left it too late in any event and so will end up in a lose lose situation whatever they do now.
 
Faustus said:
The way I see it MS are taking a calculated risk in trying to force users to adopt this new way of working in the realisation they may well alienate a lot of customers. They know they have to get into the tablet and phone market as a big player or risk becoming a bit player in the tech world - hence Windows 8. However, I remain to be convinced that they haven't already left it too late in any event and so will end up in a lose lose situation whatever they do now.
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Microsoft themselves have said they are taking a "big bet" so that much they don't really deny. The tablet market as we know it today is barely three years old (let's face it, it started with the iPad), so while they may be "late" by comparison that doesn't necessarily mean they're at an insurmountable disadvantage over the long term.
 
Installed it on the wifes HP 6910P laptop. Didn't take long (about half an hour?) and just worked straight out of the box (fresh install).

I quite like it on a laptop, but am struggling to see how its gunna be on my desktop PC (bought it earlier today just not got round to installing it yet). Looking at the Metro interface as more an intermediate easy to navigate "hub" its quite nice. For power/serious use - one click and the desktop is there.

Missed the Start button so have installed pokki: https://www.pokki.com/?ref=cm - still gives it that new OS feel whilst giving basic Start button functionality.

Whether we power users like it or not, The desktop pc is going the way of the dodo in the consumer market. W8 is a smart move by MS as it will allow convergence of many devices into one familiar interface and whilst I agree I still want my desktop on my desktop PC I can see exactly where MS are going with this, being in IT for 20 years now! It'll take a bit of getting used to but once there, one will wonder how we did without it.

Definately worth £25!
 
Glaucus said:
Try reading this thread, the love far outweighs the hatred.
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So your source for the opinion of most people is a thread in the Windows section of OCUK. Ok then.

You get a context menu that can be anything or nothing. I'm metro you have a standardized menu, that is good for everyone. Even better for developers with standised search.
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Unless the design of the standardized menu is a step back and is positioned in a less convenient location. In which case no, it's not a good thing at all.

Right click pop up menus have become standard by virtue of the fact that it makes so much sense in a desktop UI that pretty much every Windows application out there makes use of the convention.
 
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Well thankfully at the end of the day I'm still using XP at work until at least 2016 and I have OS X at home so that's still a big plus. I only really use Windows now if I use the Laptop or on the iMac's VM for certain applications, when I use W7.
 
I don't even begin to understand what is going on with my install of 8. If you read back a few posts you will see I was saying that the boot times had not improved over W7 i.e. 32 seconds, though I managed to shave off a further 9 seconds by disabling Media Centre.

Today without any further changes to the system I am now getting boot times of between 7 and 9 seconds - how?
 
I understand maybe win8/metro isn't that good for businesses/server OS and MS could have done the enterprise edition without metro or have a business edition without metro. but companys rely upgrades anyway. also i thought we are talking about win8/metro on desktops. for some people to say metro isn't for desktops is ****. has it's not true... maybe for that person they don't like it but theres lots of people find it much better;.

there will always be some people happy others not, in life. theres no way to make everybody happy
 
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Nismo said:
Don't know whether this has been posted yet, I found it interesting and agree with it pretty much. An as-expected response from an organisational point of view...

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...ations-have-no-plans-to-deploy-windows-8/6828
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Yeah organisations skip windows version all the time so any company running 7 will have a hard time justifying a windows 8 rollout. The guys stuck on XP are probably there for a specific reason which will probably keep them locked on that platform. You can see the Vista guys are most keen to do the jump as they are 2 gens behind now but most hardware running vista should be able to run windows 8.

The headline is sensationalist as well, basically 23.8% said no and the rest said maybe to probably.

The new interface doesn't really add much to organisations software either, it's more for home consumers and tablet devices. I'd imagine a lot of features will get locked down tight in most companies which IT depts seem to love doing so probably no store access anyway.
 
I let my mum use my laptop which as win8 on it, she's no techy and has no idea how to use computers but once she turned on the laptop and metro start screen came up she was navigating it so easily without any help.

on win7 she'd always ask me how to open xxxxx or where this, whats that
 
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It's been fine on a slate and with a dual monitor desktop setup I'm beginning to like it more and more.
 
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