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You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8

Posted by timothy on from the should-you-choose-to-accept-it dept.

colinneagle writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The final build of Windows 8 has already leaked to torrent sites, which is giving the propellerheads a chance to dig through the code. One revelation will probably not sit well with enterprise customers: you can't bypass the don't-call-it-Metro UI. Normally, you have to boot Windows 8 and when the tiled desktop UI (formerly known as Metro) came up, you had to click on one of the boxes to launch Explorer. Prior builds of Windows 8 allowed the user to create a shortcut so you bypass Metro and go straight to the Explorer desktop. Rafael Rivera, co-author of the forthcoming Windows 8 Secrets, confirmed to Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet that Microsoft does indeed block the boot bypass routine from prior builds. He also believes that Microsoft has blocked the ability for administrators to use Group Policy to allow users to bypass the tiled startup screen. There had been hope that Microsoft would at least relent and let corporate users have a bypass, if only for compatibility's sake."

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  1. That's fine because I plan to bypass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Windows 8.

    1. Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...Windows 8.

      There's UEFI for that! I mean, err, it's for your security. Of course.

    2. Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... by Fuzzums · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...Windows 8.

      Rumour has it that Windows 9 can only be installed on top of Windows 8 to ensure all users will at least once experience the delight of a gaming console operating system.

      --
      Privacy is terrorism.
  2. Re:and now we watch the titan burn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not horrid

    A sentiment I find often associated with various versions of Windows. Just yesterday I was speaking with a former Vietnam POW who'd had his fingernails pulled out with pliers, and he commented that the time he bought a mid-range laptop in the early days of Vista was 'pretty fucking awful but not the worst thing that has ever happened to me'.

    So good job Microsoft!