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Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation?
nk497 writes "A UX designer working at Microsoft has taken to Reddit to explain why Windows 8's Metro screen isn't designed for power users — but is still good news for them. Jacob Miller, posting as 'pwnies,' said Metro is the 'antithesis of a [power user's desktop],' and designed for 'your computer illiterate little sister,' not for content creators or power users. By splitting Windows into Metro and the desktop, Microsoft has created space for casual users as well as power users."
Update: 02/18 18:14 GMT by S : Further explanations from Miller are available now.
The Windows 8 metro ui drove me mad for months, but because it's still Windows I kept searching for a way to kill them off. Of course I installed Classic shell right away, but finding that way: this: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-remove-all-bundled-modern-apps-from-your-user-account-in-windows-8/ really fixed Windows 8 for me.
Sorry to dig in like this, but judging from your site, you're a primary powershell user, and most Microsoft sysadmins... aren't. You're projecting your own usage onto others.
Because neither Slashdot, nor Neowin, nor PC Pro can apparently do a little goddamn legwork, here's a link to the comment thread on Reddit.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
You, sir, must be a Linux user. I spend a lot of my day on Windows servers debugging issues and doing deployment tasks. RDP is the standard way to interface with a Windows server, and fucking Metro on 2012 is really annoying.
The quote is out of context, and was part of a larger list of users. On its own it does seem negative - here's my full quote: Metro is a content consumption space. It is designed for casual users who only want to check facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily.
Same thing could be said of the (in)famous Clippy tool. As derided as it was in tech circle (jerks), apparently he was pretty popular with the ladies according to one of my friends in tech support, who had to deal with lots of sticky keyboards. But I suppose just another way Clippy was spreading the joy, of, er, digital manipulation to the masses.