04-07-2012, 03:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2012, 03:33 PM by AceInfinity.)
Windows 8 is junk. They completely changed around everything, the tile-view and the fact that they completely removed the start orb button, just makes it useless for a desktop computer. Otherwise if you plan on running Windows 8 on your phone, then it's fine, great, you can then actually make use of the touch screen features which are completely useless to a desktop user when you have a mouse and keyboard.
Anybody who says it's good hasn't used it enough to see what's wrong with it. I really do hope at the LEAST they keep that start orb, not even sure what the developers thinking by changing absolutely everything around like that. Even the explorer-view, it's like the control panel all in itself, they've made it look like the Windows ribbon version of explorer, like a Microsoft office view with tools cluttered everywhere in something that is only supposed to be used for searching the filesystem.
I'll be using Windows 7 until at least Windows 9 or they come to their senses for the official release of Windows 8 and change things around to not only fit their Metro visual and idea of simplicity, but to actually make things practical for the end user. They went for a simplistic style, and to do that ended up combining everything nearly. Start orb gone, a tile view instead of a programs folder that people will have to start using unless they manually navigate to the programs folder every time, control panel integrated with explorer.exe basically...
I think it's senseless... The idea of the MetroUI is cool, but they've become so obsessed with it that they've thrown everything else away. In my opinion they looked at what Apple did with simplicity, and tried to recreate their own style of it, but failed miserably.
Anybody who says it's good hasn't used it enough to see what's wrong with it. I really do hope at the LEAST they keep that start orb, not even sure what the developers thinking by changing absolutely everything around like that. Even the explorer-view, it's like the control panel all in itself, they've made it look like the Windows ribbon version of explorer, like a Microsoft office view with tools cluttered everywhere in something that is only supposed to be used for searching the filesystem.
I'll be using Windows 7 until at least Windows 9 or they come to their senses for the official release of Windows 8 and change things around to not only fit their Metro visual and idea of simplicity, but to actually make things practical for the end user. They went for a simplistic style, and to do that ended up combining everything nearly. Start orb gone, a tile view instead of a programs folder that people will have to start using unless they manually navigate to the programs folder every time, control panel integrated with explorer.exe basically...
I think it's senseless... The idea of the MetroUI is cool, but they've become so obsessed with it that they've thrown everything else away. In my opinion they looked at what Apple did with simplicity, and tried to recreate their own style of it, but failed miserably.