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
Faustus said:
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.
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Worked a treat. Thanks
 
misterjingo said:
I use windows 7 at work and have found myself subconsciously moving to the corner to pop up the charm menu!
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Ha, same here! Whenever I'm back at a Win7 PC or laptop I keep moving to the corners and waiting... :o but quite funny. Whatever next I wonder. Perhaps one day we'll have an habitual urge to swipe non touch screens...
 
20 minutes and I got used to it, I use my computer for 3D, Video Editing and Gaming, I can't see why people struggle with it or hate it.

That and instead of win7 taking 27 seconds to load it takes win8 9 seconds to load with out using ssd

I am not much of an appy person, my android phone only has useful stuff on it, barely anything, likely I will have little use for apps on win8 aside from similar ones to my phone.

But I do like the new UI as much as I like standard.
 
Nanobot said:
Ha, same here! Whenever I'm back at a Win7 PC or laptop I keep moving to the corners and waiting... :o but quite funny. Whatever next I wonder. Perhaps one day we'll have an habitual urge to swipe non touch screens...
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i have on my work desktop a win xp machine, a win 7 pc, and a win 8 pc, plus usually about half a dozen remote desktops or vm's into various versions of windows, find myself trying to use the corners on win 7, and try to drag apps that are maximized in win xp and obviously cant do it, i just lol everytime i get confused. waiting on a copy of server 2012 arriving now to try, dont think the modern ui is needed on the server version but thinking about it, with remote desktop etc its needed to keep it consistent for our users.
 
FunkyCowie said:
I can't see why people struggle with it or hate it.
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When using the preview I found the switch between desktop and Metro incredibly jarring, and I didn't get used to it, despite trying for a week or so.

In time I am sure there will be ways to make sure Metro/Modern/Muddle are permanently suppressed. It'd prefer it if that *option* came from MS, but it's more likely to come from 3rd parties.

I know that's possible, to an extent, now, but I'm not buying into Win8 until I'm sure MS won't find a way of stomping all over that, as they did before.
 
Andrew_McP said:
I know that's possible, to an extent, now, but I'm not buying into Win8 until I'm sure MS won't find a way of stomping all over that, as they did before.
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If MS ever disabled Start8, which I can't see them doing, I'd gladly tell them to F-Off and reinstall Windows 7 without hesitation.
 
theheyes said:
Metro is the core OS UI.
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Doesn't feel like it to me, feels like it's just sat on top like how Media Centre can be booted into directly, and underneath it is still the regular "desktop" environment.

MS may market it as the core UI (they have to?), but to me it's not.
 
The metro UI is teh core UI, otherwise you would not have snap feature, charms bar etc in desktop.
It is the desktop that pops up ontop of metro.
 
Blue160 said:
No it's not.

As soon as I click on a tile for any of my proper programs I'm sent straight to the desktop. It's only the new Metro apps that run in Modern UI, and non of them are any good for productivity.
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click the network icon in the tray it uses Modern UI. also using the volume control In WMC bring a Modern volume display up...

the desktop is basicly just like a app
 
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Glaucus said:
The metro UI is teh core UI, otherwise you would not have snap feature, charms bar etc in desktop.
It is the desktop that pops up ontop of metro.
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I guess it's like one of those pictures where different people see different things :p

To me Modern UI is clearly running on top of the regular desktop environment, everything that is "Modern" is overlaid. The charms even work like the software PC manufacturers install for things like changing volume etc. that pop in to view.

gareth170 said:
the desktop is basicly just a app
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Lolworthy statement. It works pretty much exactly the same as in Windows 7, so was it called an app in that too?
 
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Nismo said:
I guess it's like one of those pictures where different people see different things :p

To me Modern UI is clearly running on top of the regular desktop environment, everything that is "Modern" is overlaid. The charms even work like the software PC manufacturers install for things like changing volume etc. that pop in to view.



Lolworthy statement. It works pretty much exactly the same as in Windows 7, so was it called an app in that too?
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How is snap screen overlaid on to desktop?
It's not the desktop is shrunk and runs on top.
 
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