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Well, i like Metro, in fact Windows8 should remove (or give a choice to the user to do so) the old (very old) start screen. It's like living in the 20th century.
But unfortunately whenever i am on the NEW startscreen, opening no mather what i always get redirected to the 20th century start screen (same for all of us).
So in fact all the fuss about this is created by MS itself.
Now instead of asking to remove the Metro i am asking to remove the what......the almost 30 year old start screen.
Jeff
Sometimes, we have to accept things as they are because we cannot change them.
In another post Mystere gave a clear & simple explanation for the 2 screens. Msg #2 Here's what I think would fix Windows 8:
All these ideas people express about how to make Windows 8 better are all based on a single misunderstanding.
Metro is *NOT* Win32. It's not just a new UI. It's an entirely different operating system that runs side-by-side the old Win32 operating system. You can't just make Win32 and Metro work together in the same application (the desktop). This is the reason that Metro is full screen, because the only way to "share" the two OS's is to have one of them control the monitor. In the case of Windows 8, Metro (it's real name is WinRT for Windows RunTime) owns the monitor it is currently on. If you see a desktop on that monitor, it's actually a metro application that views the desktop, sort of like Remote Desktop. This is why you can "close" the desktop window by using alt-f4, or moving the mouse cursor to the top and dragging it to the bottom. (if you have multiple displays, you will notice that you can't do that with the other monitors)
Metro apps are physically separate from Win32/Desktop apps. They are different OS's and they cannot really work together very well, other than some really terrible hacks (such as how IE is able to display in Metro mode).
Keeping this simple concept in mind, you will find you have a greater understanding of why Windows 8 works the way it does.
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