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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo
I spend a week with metro. I'm really scratching my head as to why try to fix something that wasn't broke by any means. I find it really hard to build a case as to how search function is better on Win8 than Win7. It's really a step backward in my opinion. Metro doesn't really make any sense, and 3rd party work arounds seem to produce better results. I guess if I had to sum up how I feel, metro is just too intrusive to what you're doing on the desktop. Ie, why does it need to be full screen? It's like the start button taking up the full screen.
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Originally Posted by CT10
I think Metro is a great idea in concept, however Microsoft totally screwed it up here. I see the benefits of how convenient things can be once you link up all your accounts to the Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Skype app, however the execution is lacking.
These built in Microsoft apps are just hard to use and confusing, the Skype app for example is basically a stripped down version of the older one, there's hardly any customization's (I can't share my screen with others, can't start group chats, etc).
After I installed the Start8 menu I've gone back to the old traditional type of Windows and haven't touched Metro in a few days already
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I should have made myself more clear, I'm not exactly a big fan of Windows 8.
I'll agree nothing was broken with the older versions, so Win 8 isn't all that necessary. I don't know much about the back-end programming though, so I'll take people's word when they say it is a faster/smoother OS.
But I'll agree the metro wasn't all that necessary. The only thing I'm using it for is basically a secondary/hidden desktop to cram all my icons in there, leaving my main desktop nice and clean.
After a week of usage, all the integrated apps are horrible for the same reasons CT10 stated. And I actually hate how everything is linked up. I ended up reinstalling my own separate apps like WLM and Skype. Yeah, making everything fullscreen is also pointless.
I guess my point is that I don't HATE windows 8. I don't think "being too confused about how to shut down the PC" is a legitimate reason. I actually haven't really noticed the lack of Start button yet. (Maybe I just didn't really use it much on XP either).
But I'll agree windows 8 did do a lot of unnecessary things. Maybe the entire OS was unnecessary.