Windows 8 Beta Offputting

Dokinator · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:07

Has been playing with the Windows 8 beta today on a net book/tablet device which was my first experience of this OS and found one of the most important things has been changed dramatically. You can no longer click on the start button and get a simple but effective menu, instead it takes you to a weird screen much like that of a windows phone with the squares. There is no easy way of opening something from the start menu any more, not of what I saw anyway.

Has anyone else discovered this? Please share your thoughts

Start menu is show in the picture below :S

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Mr-White · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:12

There's lots more information if you posted in the other thread that's already going.

MW

iviv · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:12

You're doing it wrong. That's the Metro UI you're in, there's a normal desktop UI in there as well.

And yeah, there's a massive thread already.

Dokinator · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:13

Yeah I thought there would be, but would like lots more info on this specific area if anyone has any, regards

asim18 · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:15

Why does everyone love stealing mrk's sigs? Not only that, his bandwidth as well!

Tephnos · 20 Sep 2011 at 23:44

asim18 said:
Why does everyone love stealing mrk's sigs? Not only that, his bandwidth as well!

He's the best, obviously.

lcg · 21 Sep 2011 at 00:07

It's not Beta!

It's a Developer Preview!

Amp34 · 21 Sep 2011 at 00:26

The Betas out already? The preview only came out last week!

Dokinator · 21 Sep 2011 at 09:00

Beta/Developer, really the same kinda thing, both are showing what it may be like in theory

NathanE · 21 Sep 2011 at 09:11

Dokinator said:
Beta/Developer, really the same kinda thing, both are showing what it may be like in theory

Not at all. This is an early development preview of the Metro UI. Nothing else.

A beta would be a "feature complete" but buggy release. This development preview is no where near the point where it could be considered as feature complete.

RobP · 21 Sep 2011 at 09:58

There was mention of a hidden search feature in the cut down start menu that appears on the desktop. Not on my Win8 machine so can't check it but apparently if you bring up the menu by moving the mouse bottom left (before you go to the start screen) and start typing a search box appears and you can get to apps from there?

Going blind on this so don't shoot me if this doesn't work!