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Users tell Microsoft, keep your Windows 8 Metro apps, we don't want them


Microsoft's new-style "Metro" Windows 8 apps were supposed to draw people to the operating system in droves, but the exact opposite is happening. Just-published research shows that 60% of users don't bother to launch even a single Metro app a day.

This is one more piece of evidence that Microsoft made a serious mistake in designing Windows 8 primarily for touch-based devices, and then bolting that onto a separate desktop-based operating system. At this point, people simply don't care about touch, even when they buy devices like touch-enabled laptops and tablets that are designed for touch.

Users tell Microsoft, keep your Windows 8 Metro apps, we don't want them | Computerworld Blogs
 
Preston can say that till the cows come home. There are some who will refuse to see or listen.
 

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Is there no good news for Windows 8, ever?
 

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Is there no good news for Windows 8, ever?

Don't worry, RAY.
8 has been a flop.

There is a new product offering coming.

8.1 will be significantly different. It is a new os. There will be different promotion. It will be on different devices at different price points.

They are keeping the name - but it is a very different offering.

I expect 8.1 will do lot better than 8 - it could hardly do worse.

win7 was a different product offering from Vista.

I wonder if the current 8 adorers will understand that. Perhaps not.
 

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Here is that new offering.

[h=1]Mint 15: Today's best Linux desktop (Review)[/h]
That's not to say that if you're a Windows 7 or Mac OS X Mountain Lion user you should start downloading Mint now. For desktop users Mint is better than Windows 8 and other new operating systems, such as Fedora 18 with GNOME 3.6, but it doesn't knock the socks off older WIMP-based desktops. It's just much better for experienced desktop users than the newer, user-hostile desktop interfaces as such as Windows 8's Metro.

Mint 15: Today's best Linux desktop (Review) | ZDNet
 

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Were it not for some essential Windows programs, Linux Mint would be my full time OS.
 

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Mint is great.

Unfortunately, it is not an option for the public.

It is not on the shelves.

MS deals with oems ensures that. Apple have the resources to push out their own expensive devices - but only for the premium end.
 

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Mine to.
 

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Mint is great.

Unfortunately, it is not an option for the public.

It is not on the shelves.

MS deals with oems ensures that. Apple have the resources to push out their own expensive devices - but only for the premium end.

M$ deals with the OEMs may not sound so good any more after the Windows 8 flop.
 

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MS will try and prevent that. They have deep pockets.
 

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Microsoft won't be able to stop Google Chrome, however, and that is its biggest threat. And when you look at it, Google Chrome is providing and expanding on software that provides Office compatible support, et al, it works without requiring a desktop OS (kind of like apps) and all data can be stored 'in the cloud'. Isn't that pretty much what Microsoft is trying to do?
 

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I despise people who touches and leave fingermarks on my screens. I despise much more the people who invented desktop touchscreens.
 

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Agree. In one of my previous jobs, one guy used to always have a need to put his greasy fingers on my monitor to point something out when we were discussing charts etc. I used to hate that, as I always liked to have a clean screen. That's a reason why I also don't like touch screens.

That's where Leap Motion comes into it, another form of touch, but can you imagine doing this all day?

Leap Motion With Windows - YouTube
 

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Some say that there is no point to Chrome Books, watch this space, they will be one big part of the changing computer market. Whack an SSD or even an SD slot into a Chrome Book and you've got a computer that will satisfy a huge percentage of the market. It would definitely be an option to consider if my wife's laptop died.
 

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MS will try and prevent that. They have deep pockets.
Microsoft won't be able to stop Google Chrome, however, and that is its biggest threat.

They could start paying OEMs to install W8, instead of charging them for it. ;)
 

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You guys could start your own club.
 

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I don't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.
 

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