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
bit pointless having a poll no? will just get loads of folk saying no i dont like it without ever having tried it. I've heard a lot of people ****ging it off for things that arent actual issues, but they hadnt used it, hell even people who were using it were ****ging it off for things that were actually a result of them not getting to grips with the UI, just look at the whole backup thing a few pages ago.

suppose its a bit of fun though :D
 
Zuban said:
bit pointless having a poll no? will just get loads of folk saying no i dont like it without ever having tried it. I've heard a lot of people ****ging it off for things that arent actual issues, but they hadnt used it, hell even people who were using it were ****ging it off for things that were actually a result of them not getting to grips with the UI, just look at the whole backup thing a few pages ago.

suppose its a bit of fun though :D
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I agree.

but let them have they fun. I guess some don't get out much because if they moan about little things like this :D

Its just a OS theres more important things in this world than just moaning about little things like not having a start menu.
 
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"I prefer the Win7 interface to Metro."

All my main PC's are now W8, all driver problems ironed out and Metro with nicely customized tiles etc. Can't complain, but I still prefer W7. Annoys the hell out of me, the extra mucking around and the old menu popping up with a rouge mouse move. Almost resent being forced to use this UI to stay current, poor me.
 
Faustus said:
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?
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I have finally solved the reason for the extended boot times and thought others might like to note - see above. Not liking the Metro UI I decided to put a shutdown icon on the taskbar, copying it to the Metro UI, lots of people have done this with the procedure well documented.

Purely by chance I shutdown using the "proper method" and noticed that when I next restarted the boot times were down to 9 seconds. I didn't realise at first what the reason could be so retraced all the steps I had taken on last usage. After shutting down the Laptop using the shortcut versus shutting down via settings it immediately became apparent the culprit was the shortcut. I have now removed the shortcut, added Media Centre back into the mix and my boot times have remained at 9 seconds. I'm still puzzled though as to why a shortcut should have had such an effect on boot times.
 
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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Embraced: Numbers of organizations planning to
deploy Windows 8 exceed those that aren't

theheyes Armchair Analysis & Research Team (TAAART) today released a summary based on data from the Windows 8 Business Intentions report from TechRepublic. The following are the key takeaways from the report.

Although 23.8% of respondents say they will be skipping Windows 8, this is exceeded by the 26.3% who already have firm plans to deploy Microsoft's new operating system. 10.7% of the organizations are so enthusiastic to upgrade that they plan to do so within the next 12 months. 49.9% of those surveyed currently have no plans but may consider deployment in the future.

Additionally, an astonishing 21.6% of respondents currently running non-Microsoft software as their primary operating system plan to ditch their Macs, Chromebooks and Linux boxes in favour of PCs running Windows 8.

Windows 8, the new touch-centric and consumer orientated operating system from Microsoft, has been widely regarded as an enterprise disaster waiting to happen by tech pundits and industry know-it-alls. Yet, the figures paint an altogether different picture than what today's headline writers suggest.
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Looks better than windows 7

59.3% had no plans to move to w7
34% thought they would move to w7
With 5.4% making the move within 12 months


Once company's start using w8 on tablets and phones, it will suddenly make so much more sense to upgrade desktops as well
 
Embraced: Numbers of organizations planning to
deploy Windows 8 exceed those that aren't
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The phrase - lies, damned lies, and statistics springs to mind. What was the core sample and how many are upgrading due to XP support coming to an end? All these are relevant factors.
 
Anyone got any ideas about my post 288 i.e. why should putting a shutdown shortcut on the start UI have such a drastic effect on boot times, literally three times longer to boot?
 
I like it, but it needs everything to work with metro (gestures etc.) and go fullscreen, and not have some of those hideous metro apps (I have to download Win7 skype, Win8 is hideous) And some persistent notification bar/task bar to show tray icons/time etc.
 
hyperst said:
Works fine for me, I have shutdown and restart in the start menu, how did you make the shortcuts? I made a thread for mine here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18455461 but no one seemed interested
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Like so - Right click on the desktop and select new > shortcut. A shortcut menu appears.
Enter %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0 in the location
box and hit Next.
Enter a name for the shortcut and click finish. A new
shortcut will appear on your desktop.
Right click on the shortcut and select Properties. A dialog box appears.
Click Change Icon under the Shortcut tab then Click OK in warning box that
says shutdown.exe contains no icons.
Select an Icon from the list of available images Click OK twice (once to
close the change icon window and once to close properties window). Your
shortcut will now have an icon.
Right click the shortcut and select Pin to Start. The shutdown icon will now
appear on your Start screen.
Drag the shutdown icon to a prominent place on your Start screen.
Right click the icon and select Pin to Taskbar if you want the shortcut to
live on your desktop’s taskbar as well.
 
Glaucus said:
Once company's start using w8 on tablets and phones, it will suddenly make so much more sense to upgrade desktops as well
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That is the killer. Microsoft have always been much better than Apple at providing corporate/enterprise networking, even if Apple may be better in the consumer space. There's also all those legacy apps that simply can't be upgraded or ported that make switching to Apple or Linux so much more difficult.

The Intel version of the Surface is a stroke of genius* if all the complaints I'm hearing from sysadmins about idiot users wanting all their heavyweight corporate apps installing on their iPads are actually true. It'll be like "here's your shiny tablet with it's shiny tablet UI, press this button and it'll launch the corporate build of CrappyAccounts98 and it'll be exactly like it is on your desktop you don't need to learn how to use something else.

So it makes sense to go with Microsoft tablets and phones, especially since they suck a lot less these days (yes I remember WinCE) and once you do that may as well go with Win8 so your users only have to learn one interface.

That said, I'm running StartIsBack on my newly upgraded Win8 machines.

*Assuming it actually works and doesn't drain it's battery in a few hours like my i5 laptop does.
 
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