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
Mattey1 said:
To me the desktop is exactly the same :confused: Minus the start menu in the corner of course nothing else really has changed in my opinion, I can go a whole day without seeing Metro. Please explain what else they can do to the desktop experience?

The way i see it is Metro is more for the casual PC user, The one who gets scared when they see the desktop ( I know a lot of people who hate the desktop experience). This brings it more in line with their phones/tablets & makes it more simple once they get used to it. Of course there are a few things I like about it also! I much prefer the full screen menu over the old start menu. Plus the taskbars on multiple screens with icons following whichever screen they are on without the need of installing 3rd party software.

As I said in one of the other threads I installed the consumer preview on my nieces laptop (she's 8 & not very technically savvy) I thought she'd struggle to get used to it but she hasn't once asked me how to do something on it, Infact as I've said she has taught me a few little tricks within Metro.

For the older generation of the older Windows I can see people shrugging it off. I've also used Windows since 3.1 & I have no problems with 8, Sure there are a few things I'd like to see improved on which no doubt will happen.

One thing I don't like about Metro is the huge margins between the groups you can create.
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And when do you see "Enterprise" adopting 8 - like not before hell freezes over. I work for a large national organisation, we had all new PC hardware last year - Windows 7. The first thing that happened was that every machine nationally was downgraded to XP Professional. The reason for doing this is the cost of getting all bespoke programmes re-written. At the moment the lead time for any changes to OS is 2016 when the issue will be looked at afresh. The options then will be to use the W7 licenses which we already own or move to Linux. One can only hope that as with W7 Windows W9 will be a finished product unlike the "work in progress" W8.

Touch on a Desktop is unwieldy so the obvious conclusion (which BTW MS don't dispute) is that this is a OS for tablets. A last throw of the dice for MS.
 
Sounds like you work for a pretty awful company if it writes bespoke software that only works on XP, maybe you should move to linux then all your employees can hate the IT systems and leave :p
 
Faustus said:
You need to read before you post - I already did buy it. Have you never heard about discussion?
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I have read, but all I've seen in this forum is most people moaning about win8 / UI. why did the "moaning" people still buy it? MS offered a free preview so if they didn't like the preview they shouldn't of bought the RTM release. so tbh they have no reason to moan
 
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Faustus said:
And when do you see "Enterprise" adopting 8 - like not before hell freezes over. I work for a large national organisation, we had all new PC hardware last year - Windows 7. The first thing that happened was that every machine nationally was downgraded to XP Professional. The reason for doing this is the cost of getting all bespoke programmes re-written. At the moment the lead time for any changes to OS is 2016 when the issue will be looked at afresh. The options then will be to use the W7 licenses which we already own or move to Linux. One can only hope that as with W7 Windows W9 will be a finished product unlike the "work in progress" W8.

Touch on a Desktop is unwieldy so the obvious conclusion (which BTW MS don't dispute) is that this is a OS for tablets. A last throw of the dice for MS.
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On the other side I work for a worldwide printer firm & all the computers running there are using Windows 7. It is nothing new that companies will skip OS's. Yet again it isn't Microsofts fault that companies are too lazy to re-write their programs.

This OS is in the main for the consumer. You obviously don't like it so why not just stick with Windows 7? Just like the people who didn't like Vista stayed with Windows XP. You can't please everyone.
 
Mattey1 said:
On the other side I work for a worldwide printer firm & all the computers running there are using Windows 7. It is nothing new that companies will skip OS's. Yet again it isn't Microsofts fault that companies are too lazy to re-write their programs.

This OS is in the main for the consumer. You obviously don't like it so why not just stick with Windows 7? Just like the people who didn't like Vista stayed with Windows XP. You can't please everyone.
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yep. I agree.
 
yeah i like win 8, have been using it for ages and havent used the start menu for ages and actually quite like the new UI, also watching my GF use it is quite interesting as she didnt need any instruction on it, i noticed last night she was just using the email app, ie app etc and just getting on with it, this is all on a desktop pc i use when sat on the couch and dont want to watch whats on tv. Some people can cope fine with the change others cant, even if you just moved the start menu from one side of the screen to the other some people have a hissy fit, thats just people.

Where i work we wont be going to windows 8 because there is no need or benefit to doing so, were still using a mix of xp and win 7 but progressing to win 7 on the whole. we will be using win 8 i'm sure for systems that work well with touch screens and for tablets but they will be a very small minority. We also skipped vista completely.
 
I see users of 8 have been pretty silent regarding backup? MS had an excellent backup utility in 7 which has now been hobbled i.e. no more full image backups, with only a poor imitation of Time Machine and "options in other places" which I assume means the cloud? MS will only go worse whilst Balmer remains at the helm.
 
Faustus said:
I see users of 8 have been pretty silent regarding backup? MS had an excellent backup utility in 7 which has now been hobbled i.e. no more full image backups, with only a poor imitation of Time Machine and "options in other places" which I assume means the cloud? MS will only go worse whilst Balmer remains at the helm.
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win 8 still has a full image backup tool

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what's next?
 
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Faustus said:
I see users of 8 have been pretty silent regarding backup? MS had an excellent backup utility in 7 which has now been hobbled i.e. no more full image backups, with only a poor imitation of Time Machine and "options in other places" which I assume means the cloud? MS will only go worse whilst Balmer remains at the helm.
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Windows 8 includes the exact same image backup feature as 7 and File History works great.
 
I have not bought it, i just downloaded the rtm and put it in to vmware and made vmware fullscreen to try out the interface. I think the new interface is ok but I don't like some things about it. The lack of a start menu and having to pay extra to get one is just annoying enough not to use it imo. I am the type of person that tweaks windows 7 and disables a lot of the features. So i will try do that with windows 8 as well. It is just a question of being able to do that to all the annoyances.

I get bored quickly with games and the type of apps in the new interface. It reminds me of a media portal a bit and some of the apps are ok but I would rather just use a web browser.
 
theheyes said:
Windows 8 includes the exact same image backup feature as 7 and File History works great.
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Really - full disk image? File history is a poor relation to TM I'm afraid.

My understanding of 8 is this -
You can no longer create full system images, nor can you back up everything on your hard drive. Instead, you can only back up files in your libraries, files on your desktop, your contacts, and your browser favorites. Windows 8’s File History feature is designed to protect users’ personal files, which are generally irreplaceable. In contrast, there’s less need to back up system files because operating systems and applications can be reinstalled from elsewhere
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Trust good old MS to remove a utility that worked and was well liked.
 
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theheyes said:
I already know how it works. It even references in that article the feature you claimed Microsoft removed.
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So in some respects it is simply a re-naming exercise from 7 i.e. file history - not a patch on TM. With reference to full image - only supposed to be for ex W7 users who previously used it in 7. As many reviews are now commenting 8 is basically a mobile OS with a Desktop OS bolted to it which explains why it's such an inelegant solution. No wonder Apple goes from strength to strength whilst MS continues in decline.

W7 was a real world challenger to OS X, but 8? well the guys at Cupertino must be wetting themselves laughing.
 
Faustus said:
Which according to articles is meant to work if you previously used W7 backup only.
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Faustus said:
So in some respects it is simply a re-naming exercise from 7 i.e. file history - not a patch on TM. With reference to full image - only supposed to be for ex W7 users who previously used it in 7.
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well I've never used backup feature in win7 but I sure u win8 backup full image feature works
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