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It's been 2 days now since I completed my hellish install of Windows 8 (which, itself, took 2 days) and I'm now just getting round to playing with some of the features. Sure it's clean, nice, fancy... all of that, but there's one overwhelming issue that I just can't quite put my finger on and it's this; the whole OS, every part of it, just seems... well... unfinished? Incomplete?
Tiles:
My problems started when I wanted to pin certain things to my new start menu so I could have everything accessible, but I found out pretty quickly that you can only save "apps" there. I wanted to pin my banking websites, Facebook and certain apps to this, but am restricted to using apps from the market. Perhaps I'm missing it but I had envisioned a way to create your own tiles, color of them, and for advanced use perhaps even a live tile of say your personal favorite weather website.
Also settings for specific apps seem to be missing. I have Google Chrome as an app, I wanted to look at the settings, but right clicking the app only allows me to unpin.
Start:
I love the tiles, I have a windows phone and have long been a fan of the simple pin/unpin of everything you love onto your own personal start screen. In Windows 8 though I feel as though it's almost forced upon you. Now I'm sure it works better with touch screens and what not, but it doesn't seem as smooth as with the phone. It's replaced the old start bar, but doesn't come close to being as efficient, nor easy to use. Once you tab out of the start menu and onto the desktop, it's almost like running Windows 7, but someone has replaced your start bar with this annoying, cumbersome contraption that can't hold everything you want it to, and doesn't work as well. Again I get the feeling that this is something that's really not complete, as though it was half done then rushed through production. The start menu looks great from a distance, but when you get up close and realize a lot of the tiles on there are nonsense you'll never use, you slim it down to what you want and it looks bare.
Here's the biggest peeve though. Open up youtube, play a song you like, then tab into the start menu to go look around while jamming to your song. As soon as your browser is minimized for the start screen, the music is muted. Why? I don't know. Does this mark the end of photoshopping while listening to jams? What's the purpose?
Options:
I'm seeing a huge lack of options in Windows 8. From customization to performance (which my PC runs noticeably slower in 8) I'm feeling kind of lost and helpless, not able to change the things I'd like to, nor cut the things I don't like. I feel as though if I looked harder I'd find some options somewhere hidden in the control panel but insofar I have not come across anything.
Adds:
When I first heard people talk about the adds I thought for sure it was speculation, and that it was an idea that would have been pushed aside long ago. When I finally got onto Windows 8 and saw them I was pretty much shocked and disgusted. For a product I had just paid for, and an operating system I've used my whole life, now to be selling things right at me, with no option for removal... Probably one of the biggest downfalls so far.
I guess I can tally this up by saying a nice TL;DR sentence.
I love windows phone, and had envisioned all of these amazing abilities with Windows 8, to truly personalize your experience, which are simply nonexistent. It's bulky, slow, not very user friendly, and frankly not worth the money in it's current state. Perhaps after some updates but not right now.
Thoughts? What are your own experiences so far?
Tiles:
My problems started when I wanted to pin certain things to my new start menu so I could have everything accessible, but I found out pretty quickly that you can only save "apps" there. I wanted to pin my banking websites, Facebook and certain apps to this, but am restricted to using apps from the market. Perhaps I'm missing it but I had envisioned a way to create your own tiles, color of them, and for advanced use perhaps even a live tile of say your personal favorite weather website.
Also settings for specific apps seem to be missing. I have Google Chrome as an app, I wanted to look at the settings, but right clicking the app only allows me to unpin.
Start:
I love the tiles, I have a windows phone and have long been a fan of the simple pin/unpin of everything you love onto your own personal start screen. In Windows 8 though I feel as though it's almost forced upon you. Now I'm sure it works better with touch screens and what not, but it doesn't seem as smooth as with the phone. It's replaced the old start bar, but doesn't come close to being as efficient, nor easy to use. Once you tab out of the start menu and onto the desktop, it's almost like running Windows 7, but someone has replaced your start bar with this annoying, cumbersome contraption that can't hold everything you want it to, and doesn't work as well. Again I get the feeling that this is something that's really not complete, as though it was half done then rushed through production. The start menu looks great from a distance, but when you get up close and realize a lot of the tiles on there are nonsense you'll never use, you slim it down to what you want and it looks bare.
Here's the biggest peeve though. Open up youtube, play a song you like, then tab into the start menu to go look around while jamming to your song. As soon as your browser is minimized for the start screen, the music is muted. Why? I don't know. Does this mark the end of photoshopping while listening to jams? What's the purpose?
Options:
I'm seeing a huge lack of options in Windows 8. From customization to performance (which my PC runs noticeably slower in 8) I'm feeling kind of lost and helpless, not able to change the things I'd like to, nor cut the things I don't like. I feel as though if I looked harder I'd find some options somewhere hidden in the control panel but insofar I have not come across anything.
Adds:
When I first heard people talk about the adds I thought for sure it was speculation, and that it was an idea that would have been pushed aside long ago. When I finally got onto Windows 8 and saw them I was pretty much shocked and disgusted. For a product I had just paid for, and an operating system I've used my whole life, now to be selling things right at me, with no option for removal... Probably one of the biggest downfalls so far.
I guess I can tally this up by saying a nice TL;DR sentence.
I love windows phone, and had envisioned all of these amazing abilities with Windows 8, to truly personalize your experience, which are simply nonexistent. It's bulky, slow, not very user friendly, and frankly not worth the money in it's current state. Perhaps after some updates but not right now.
Thoughts? What are your own experiences so far?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 ultimate
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 2.70GHz
- Motherboard
- Phoenix tech 6.00PG 8/7/2008
- Memory
- 4.00 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce 210