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Old 12-09-2012, 02:14 PM   #215
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There's definitely a learning curve, but I think majority of the people are either just jumping on the bandwagon to hate it or aren't even trying to learn it.

After a week of using it, I've noticed the Metro UI can be completely ignored if one doesn't even want to use it.
It's just an app layout screen, which doesn't replace the desktop at all.
If someone wants to put all their app shortcuts all over the main desktop, they can still do so just like in previous versions.

The other difference is shutting down the computer.
Shortcut is "Ctrl + I". You can then find the power icon there, and shutdown.
Might take a while to get used of not going to the start button to shutdown, but it's really not a drastic and complicated change.

I admit most of the preinstalled Metro apps are useless to me, or I just prefered doing it manually through an internet browser.
And I uninstalled a lot of them, such as the integrated Mail and Messenger.
But as for IE, I never used IE to begin with, and I don't think most people do either.
So that means most people will just be using FF or Chrome anyway on Windows 8.

I'm not saying Windows 8 is perfect, as indicated from my issues just a few posts back,
but then again, not everyone was having the same admin issues as me.
And now after a week, I'm starting to get the hang of it.
I jumped from WinXP, so I'm basically learning win8 and win7 at the same time.
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