Hi there. I decided to upgrade a few days ago to Windows 8 as I decided £25 wasn't much of a loss if I didn't like it. I wasn't too sure what to expect but I'm mostly presently surprised.
The main big change that originally annoyed me when I first saw the early versions of Windows 8 was the missing start menu but weirdly I am kind of glad it's gone. With it missing I found myself having to use the new start screen, having to learn it and get used to it. It's not 100 percent perfect but I do like it. I think if the start menu was there I'd probably have just used that mainly again.
My main criticism, and one I've seen others share, is the switching between metro (Modern UI) and the desktop classic windows. I feel that not enough apps have a metro counterpart at the moment so I have to keep going from one mode to another e.g. my media player Winamp has no metro mode. Also some that do have a Metro app, have an incomplete metro app. For instance Skype's metro app, which is funnily owned by Microsoft, doesn't even offer simple file transfers right now.
I also thought most of Microsoft's apps would have a metro counterpart e.g. paint, notepad etc. And I thought they would have done a control panel metro style but with all the features that the desktop one had.
Finally also the search function while great, can't find everything. Because in Metro mode, Windows updates is in the metro settings area, I can't simply search for it in the normal search bar while in Windows 7 I could search for it and just about anything else.
Oh and while I remember, I've had a few apps which like to suddenly close themselves while in Metro mode. This could be a windows thing or a developer thing, I'm not really too sure.
I do hope more developers create Metro style apps, as right now while I really like the new look, I feel it's just not got enough to use it properly. I also hear that Microsoft is working on an update or something to make the desktop feel metro style (maybe with the ability to change to classic) so that will be interesting.
The main big change that originally annoyed me when I first saw the early versions of Windows 8 was the missing start menu but weirdly I am kind of glad it's gone. With it missing I found myself having to use the new start screen, having to learn it and get used to it. It's not 100 percent perfect but I do like it. I think if the start menu was there I'd probably have just used that mainly again.
My main criticism, and one I've seen others share, is the switching between metro (Modern UI) and the desktop classic windows. I feel that not enough apps have a metro counterpart at the moment so I have to keep going from one mode to another e.g. my media player Winamp has no metro mode. Also some that do have a Metro app, have an incomplete metro app. For instance Skype's metro app, which is funnily owned by Microsoft, doesn't even offer simple file transfers right now.
I also thought most of Microsoft's apps would have a metro counterpart e.g. paint, notepad etc. And I thought they would have done a control panel metro style but with all the features that the desktop one had.
Finally also the search function while great, can't find everything. Because in Metro mode, Windows updates is in the metro settings area, I can't simply search for it in the normal search bar while in Windows 7 I could search for it and just about anything else.
Oh and while I remember, I've had a few apps which like to suddenly close themselves while in Metro mode. This could be a windows thing or a developer thing, I'm not really too sure.
I do hope more developers create Metro style apps, as right now while I really like the new look, I feel it's just not got enough to use it properly. I also hear that Microsoft is working on an update or something to make the desktop feel metro style (maybe with the ability to change to classic) so that will be interesting.
My Computer
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- Windows 8 Pro