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Windows 8 jettisons this in favor of a totally flat menu with unintuitive color coding and a mystical mess of functions. The only good news is that Desktop mode is more-or-less identical to Windows 7 (with UI improvements) outside this new Start Screen.
I study computer science, about a week before any preview versions appeared one of my lecturers said he expects Windows to die in favour of Android in about 5 years. Now I'm really curious if he's right.
For some month I have a Windows 8 preview running in a VM. And Metro is horrible on the desktop. In my opinion it requires a lobotomy to get the right state of mind to use it.
The Windows desktop will become the techy, geeky hidden interface for nerds, just like the command line is today.
Yeah, Metro sucks big time on the desktop. But some commentators are saying Microsoft expects to get into the iPad-like tablet market
and that eventually there will be 10x more tablet and phone users than desktop users.
Quote from: IanB on March 03, 2012, 06:28:32 pmThe Windows desktop will become the techy, geeky hidden interface for nerds, just like the command line is today.I would not classify Word and PowerPoint users as geeks. And Office is a huge source of income for Microsoft. They are endangering that income when they piss off desktop users.
so my dual monitor setup with 2.5 million pixel available in screen real estate is going to be reduced to looking like some poxy smartphone with a pew thousand pixels ? screw that, when will microsoft grow up. They just got around to making the user interface about right with 7 now they will ruin it again
so my dual monitor setup with 2.5 million pixel available in screen real estate is going to be reduced to looking like some poxy smartphone with a pew thousand pixels ?
Quote from: Simon on March 04, 2012, 07:30:48 amso my dual monitor setup with 2.5 million pixel available in screen real estate is going to be reduced to looking like some poxy smartphone with a pew thousand pixels ?You got the idea. Although, there is a register setting to start an old fashioned desktop.But, the issue is no just with the Metro desktop, but with Metro applications. Have fun running them all in full screen mode, even on the old desktop, because that is how Mero applications run. That is a step back to the days of Windows 3.1, when CPU power, memory and screen estate didn't really allow to use more than one application at the same time.