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The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop
MojoKid writes "Metro, Microsoft's new UI, is bold; a dramatic departure from anything the company has previously done in the desktop/laptop space, and absolutely great. It's tangible proof that Redmond really can design and build its own unique products and experiences. However, the transition to Metro's Start menu is jarring for some desktop users, and worse yet, Desktop mode and Metro don't mesh well at all. The best strategy Microsoft could take would be to introduce users to Metro via its included apps and through tablets, while prominently offering the option to maintain the Desktop environment. Power users who choose to use the classic UI for desktops and laptops can still be exposed to Metro via tablets and applications without being forced to wade through it on their way to do something important."
>What Microsoft has done with Windows 8 is it has taken a UI that works and put a big curtain in front of it (Metro) so that every time you want to use the OS the way you're accustomed to doing, you have to push the curtain aside. And as soon as you push the wrong button (the Windows key) or you want to launch a new application, the curtain drops down again.
Unpin all the Metro tiles and keep only desktop apps pinned, and the tiles become nothing more than a revamped Start screen and you can use shortcuts for other tasks.
>Keyboard shortcuts do not make an "OS."
What? Did you fail reading comprehension? Whoever said that? I only meant that before you discount it, learn it, try it and then do that. Do not expect it to work like Windows 7 on day 1 and do not expect everything to run like the old OSes starting from day one.
> It's not logical to get rid of the more efficient way of doing things for the sake of something that looks cool.
My point was that they did NOT get rid of the more efficient way, it's a just a different way now and all your desktop apps work exactly the same and some even better.
As I said, it's funny how on all the Post PC articles, the PC and MS are dying anyway, but now the PC is alive and well and MS should just release service packs for Windows 7 till the demand dries up. So which is it, is the PC industry dying or is it going to grow and thrive?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57393848-37/apple-reaches-for-singularity-in-the-post-pc-world/
This space for rent.
Which was proceeded by the apple astro-turfing and the on-going linux astro-turfing that overlapped both..
don't pretend microsoft has some kind of monopoly on that.
Fail. Your supposed "Linux astroturfing" is not astroturing because it is actually grassroots, real people, unlike the paid shills hired to troll social sites for Apple and Microsoft.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
and yet it amounts to the same thing. Whether it's a paid person doing it or some diehard fanboys, it comes across exactly the same. The real "fail" is the inability of linux fanboys to differentiate themselves from paid shills.