Windows 8 Consumer Preview Thread
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I usually like upgrading my Operating Systems early but my after 20 minutes, I'm going back to Windows 7.
The constant flips between Metro and Desktop is very annoying
Unintuitive interface for standard desktops without touchscreens
I hate animation transitions !!! Nice to look at the first time but after the 19th time I just want my programs to open.
I can't see this catching on in Desktop form. Metro does not work with a mouse.
The constant flips between Metro and Desktop is very annoying
Unintuitive interface for standard desktops without touchscreens
I hate animation transitions !!! Nice to look at the first time but after the 19th time I just want my programs to open.
I can't see this catching on in Desktop form. Metro does not work with a mouse.
What exactly are you doing to flip between Metro and the desktop 19 times in 20 minutes? Just pin your programs to the taskbar.
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The very fact you have to pin everything to the task bar to avoid using the Metro interface just shows how pointless it is on a PC.
You can upgrade, but I would always recommend a clean install.
It has always been more efficient to pin the most often used things to the task bar rather than the desktop, in all versions of windows. Its got nothing to do with W8. In many ways the metro screen is like a full screen start menu. Though I think the XP start menu was more efficient than the W7 one.
Unless of course you are using 19 different applications in 20 mins.
It has always been more efficient to pin the most often used things to the task bar rather than the desktop, in all versions of windows. Its got nothing to do with W8. In many ways the metro screen is like a full screen start menu. Though I think the XP start menu was more efficient than the W7 one.
Unless of course you are using 19 different applications in 20 mins.
Indeed it has. Which is my point about how pointless Metro is. Everyone will just pin everything and never use it.
It's utterly redundant on a PC.
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Is the classic desktop a metro app in Win8?
Sort of.
One thing I don't think is working is the lock screen. You have the option of showing different apps like weather, calendar and so on but none of that appears on mine. Is it a known bug?
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Classic Shell is simply a program that adds a start button and XP like menus to Windows 8. It saves on having to find and pin items to the Quick Launch bar or desktop. I have it on a machine I using to test Windows 8 and it works fine - juts like Windows 7. So much like Windows 7 that I hardly see the point upgrading to a system that needs an add-on.
What we don't know is if Microsoft will find a way to stop it functioning in the final version though I suspect that would be quite hard.
What we don't know is if Microsoft will find a way to stop it functioning in the final version though I suspect that would be quite hard.
I don't think so. Already I use the Video player to view videos instead of WMP and I have Sky News installed to watch and a little Note app which is better than sticky notes. So the more apps the merrier. Eventually I see the desktop for file management only.
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I don't think so. Already I use the Video player to view videos instead of WMP and I have Sky News installed to watch and a little Note app which is better than sticky notes. So the more apps the merrier. Eventually I see the desktop for file management only.
I suppose it depends what one wants to do. I can't see applications like Microsoft Office ending up as apps - especially Access. What about games - not the ones in apps but the more serious games. GTA in an app - I don't think so.
Then again, many of us work with mail open a browser open and office of a coding editor open as well. How could Metro manage that - it can only open to apps at once!
Yes, I see your point there. I suppose that is the next big challenge.
How do you scrap everything you've built with Windows 3.x-7 and design your programs to be more accessible with a simple UI but be equally as powerful.After all, all the software in Star Trek: The Next Generation is on touch screen displays and the majority of the functionality is there but accessed by voice command. Why not do that? LOL. Might take us three centuries more...
Classic shell does a bit more than that. In Windows 7 it adds some GUI functionality that was in XP but missing in W7. In W8 you don't need those features though.
W8 seems a lot faster than W7, for me anyway. It would be worth it for that anyway.
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Its the three centuries we are going to have problem with. PC gaming will be going for a long time yet - even Carmageddon is being re-written for release next year (an that's a blast from the past!). This all needs the old desktop.
As you can see, too, Linux and Apple both are working of desktops without the Metro interface and without the need for it either! It seems to me that if Windows destroys the desktop users will be heading for the other choices. No Metro is great for tablets and desktop is great for, er, desktops. All they needed to do was to give people a choice.
As you can see, too, Linux and Apple both are working of desktops without the Metro interface and without the need for it either! It seems to me that if Windows destroys the desktop users will be heading for the other choices. No Metro is great for tablets and desktop is great for, er, desktops. All they needed to do was to give people a choice.
Why does gaming need the old desktop? All you need to do is click on a game icon in the Metro UI and it launches?
I think Microsoft are achieving what Apple will do - combining desktop and mobile OSes into one. I am sure Apple would rather have one OS across all its devices than Mac OS X and iOS and really Apple are in a better position to do so as the userbase is smaller than Windows. Mac users are used to having all their programs bust with architecture changes, OS updates, etc.
Web apps vs regular apps no?