It's Microsoft Bob + Vista = gobs of fail They should have kept the GUI from 7 and made 7 leaner and quicker for 8. MS wants so badly to be in the mobile space they'll change every UI (desktop and Xbox) to make people "want" it on their phone, even though it won't work on any platform.
Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the issue is that the metro desktop is separate from the standard > desktop. > > If there was no standard desktop and instead there was only metro then the > issue would have been less, in the sense that you either like it or hate it. > > Right now you are forced to use both and the current implementation is > clunky to say the least. > > But I like the concept of the metro desktop and I think it needs a lot of > polish but at least for me it's a step in the right direction. > On Aug 2, 2012 7:37 AM, "Bryan Seitz" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's fucking garbage on a desktop. >> >> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 06:12:23AM +0300, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: >>> I actually like metro. >>> >>> It's a radical departure and as with most big changes people will always >>> resist. I think a year from now you will look at the desktop as being >>> archaic. >>> On Aug 2, 2012 2:22 AM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just saw that Windows 8 has hit RTM. MSDN and Technet get it Aug 15, >> retail >>>> availability Oct 26. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Can it just fail already so Microsoft gives us back a usable desktop >>>> interface for Windows 9? I'm seriously thinking of siding with Duncan >> on >>>> this iteration. J >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Even though Windows Server 2012 has a huge number of improvements and >> new >>>> features, Microsoft apparently feels that the Server edition should use >>>> Metro as well.even over RDP.making it virtually unpalatable as well. >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> >> Bryan G. Seitz >>
