goldrunout
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Hello, I've recently installed Win8 Release Preview and so far I don't like the UI at all. The start screen is good, preinstalled apps work well and it is not that difficult to understand how they work. But, although I'd like to see a similar interface on different devices, so that you can think of them as a single one, being them a desktop, a notebook or a phone, Metro just doens't work for me. And having desktop there is not a solution, because switching between one interface and the other is slow, distracting and unpleasant. Basically they put two separate environments in a single system asking me to switch between them while I work. What's the point in putting metro on x86 PCs? Do they want to have a similar interface on all windows devices? Fine but then why having two UIs on a single computer?
So I thought, what's the main problem of the Metro UI? The start screen? No, I kinda like it. The problems are fullscreen apps and minimalistic options! Why do I have to run a single app at a time? I'm not on an ipad, I'm using a windows pc, because it is more powerful and does not limit my experience! It's been years that I always have more than a program running at a time and i'm constantly swithcing between them, moving from a window to another and so forth and so on. Now there is this idea of one at a time, as if we used the pc just to check mails or meteo. Same thing in the apps. Have you tried IE metro? I have to use the RMB to display a gigantic ribbon with thumbnails of my tabs. In this way I practically navigate with one tab at a time. And right clicking on any object brings up a ribbon in the bottom part of the screen so that I alway have to move through my entire workspace to click on .. nothing, there is almost nothing in this ribbon, it's practically empty!
But i don't want the old UI back? where would innovation be? So I thought of something. What is the difference between the desktop and the start screen? There is no difference at all, just one is customizable, the other is not, so why don't they just
1- Make the start screen background more customizable
2- Make it easier to navigate with a mouse
3- Make apps work in windows instead that fullscreen. They could make them open on fullscreen in windows RT, and open the_way_they_were_last_time on x86! The name of this OS should tell them the way to go! Make them resizable, and movable around the screen like in desktop!
4- Give us a smarter right click menù, ribbon could be fine on touch, here we should have buttons where we click
5- Delete the desktop and use the start screen as the background, in the end what's so different between them? In the end now we just have two different desktops which are partially useless
Now, I know this is release preview and they are not going to change anything, but don't you think these would be good ideas?
So I thought, what's the main problem of the Metro UI? The start screen? No, I kinda like it. The problems are fullscreen apps and minimalistic options! Why do I have to run a single app at a time? I'm not on an ipad, I'm using a windows pc, because it is more powerful and does not limit my experience! It's been years that I always have more than a program running at a time and i'm constantly swithcing between them, moving from a window to another and so forth and so on. Now there is this idea of one at a time, as if we used the pc just to check mails or meteo. Same thing in the apps. Have you tried IE metro? I have to use the RMB to display a gigantic ribbon with thumbnails of my tabs. In this way I practically navigate with one tab at a time. And right clicking on any object brings up a ribbon in the bottom part of the screen so that I alway have to move through my entire workspace to click on .. nothing, there is almost nothing in this ribbon, it's practically empty!
But i don't want the old UI back? where would innovation be? So I thought of something. What is the difference between the desktop and the start screen? There is no difference at all, just one is customizable, the other is not, so why don't they just
1- Make the start screen background more customizable
2- Make it easier to navigate with a mouse
3- Make apps work in windows instead that fullscreen. They could make them open on fullscreen in windows RT, and open the_way_they_were_last_time on x86! The name of this OS should tell them the way to go! Make them resizable, and movable around the screen like in desktop!
4- Give us a smarter right click menù, ribbon could be fine on touch, here we should have buttons where we click
5- Delete the desktop and use the start screen as the background, in the end what's so different between them? In the end now we just have two different desktops which are partially useless
Now, I know this is release preview and they are not going to change anything, but don't you think these would be good ideas?
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