It just reeks of pure marketing and arrogance in thinking they know better than what the customer/user wants.Īll monitors haven’t just magically turned into expensive touchscreens overnight, so to replace the traditional menu system with one designed for portable touchscreen units is just a pathetic attempt to push more Windows OSes in areas where Android and iOS mops the floor with them. To remove it practically overnight without having a grace period of even one release having it as an option is just wrong… especially when it is *your* OS that will end up being on the vast majority of new computers sold within only the first month or two of its release. ![]() Windows users have come to expect a proper application menu. That Mac minority made a conscious decision to have to deal with that dock and Apple’s walled garden along with everything that comes with it they can have it. And if I didn’t buy a Mac, the last thing I would want is Mac behavior. Not everyone buys, uses or even cares about a Mac. ![]() I did, in fact, install a program at the beginning of my evaluation–but I uninstalled it both to see what that “Start screen” was all about and also for the above-mentioned lack of trust toward third-party solutions to such major system functionality. After all–Microsoft’s original implementation has been proven with obscene amounts of both time and real-world use, so that part of Windows was relatively rock-solid at least. ![]() As crazy as it may sound, I would trust Microsoft’s implementations of such basic system functionality to be much more reliable and stable than what third-party developers may provide, and I’d rather not risk losing such basic functionality because a third party program crashed or had to be forced to terminate. I’m not a fan of installing third-party programs for such incredibly basic things at the end of 2012 when Microsoft provided and fully-supported it natively for the last 15+ years. Just like Microsoft stubbornly insisted on and ultimately decided to leave out basic, expected functionality for desktop users? It goes both ways. The simple fact is, Microsoft has hardwired Metro into Windows 8 in such a way that it is impossible to completely disable or bypass it. Oh, and that annoying thing that always needlessly pops up on the right side of the screen when you simply want to access an icon in the system tray or close a window that’s on the right side of the screen? Well, that’s part of Metro too, and you’ll need to deal with it eventually if you ever plan on rebooting or shutting down your machine without reaching for the power button or the power cable. Want to run a desktop application without touching Metro? Tough–unless you litter your desktop and taskbar with icons, you have to deal with the Metro-ized Start menu replacement for that, too. That’s kind of hard to do when, you know… you’re dumped right into the “Start screen” which–make no mistake–is a part of Metro. ![]() The under the hood changes in Windows 8 are fantastic and the UI changes, other than Metro (if you dislike it), are generally fantastic. I haven’t even installed a replacement start button app and I’ve barely had any interaction with it.Īs far as I have seen, most whiners about it wont take the time to either learn it or just disable it. WTF is with all you people bitching? Don’t like the UI formally known as Metro? THEN DON’T USE IT.
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