VrWagz1
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Windows 8 has been aound long enough now for people to start giving some serious everyday use and consideration. Sometime ago I purchased a HP touch screen convertible ultra book(basically folds into a tablet when you dont feel the need for a keyboard), which basically is almost the exact market that Win8 is targetting. However I find myself using classic desktop mode constantly, the metro ui is like this place where i go under sufferance when I cant get away from it.
Little things seem annoying like trying to open calculator when i want to check some figures.
-move mouse to corner(or finger swipe)
-click search feild
-type and press enter
-get shifted into metro ui
-find "App"(previously a "program")
-need to usemouse to then select app(or lean in and tap screen)
-"App" then opens, and mostly shifts you back to desktop mode then anyway:hmmm:
While this seems whingy. Compare this to previous Win7: - press "cntrl esc"- push up arrow- type name in search - press up to select prog- press enter- program opens, literally seconds and no need for me to be flapping around tapping screens, shifting from mouse to screen to keyboard ect....
Not only that, if i go directly to the "apps metro screen" my recent apps arnt logged first. So when i want to open somthing like notepad or calculator again i need to go find them in the list of a bazzilion badly grouped apps.
So even though this is a very specific example, i find this to be typical of trying to get anything to happen on Win8. No only that, often drop down menus are hidden and harder to find. And IE in metro mode can go eat a peanut, its just stupid. Although i did notice it seems to have dissapeared, and clicking the IE icon now opens in desktop mode. Not that i use it, firfox is my choice for browsing.
So rant over, but does anyone else find Windows 8 to be just plain annoying and not nessacarily a step in the right direction for the once dominating Microsoft. I also struggle to see how this is going to intergrate into peoples workstations in working environments:hmmm:
Little things seem annoying like trying to open calculator when i want to check some figures.
-move mouse to corner(or finger swipe)
-click search feild
-type and press enter
-get shifted into metro ui
-find "App"(previously a "program")
-need to usemouse to then select app(or lean in and tap screen)
-"App" then opens, and mostly shifts you back to desktop mode then anyway:hmmm:
While this seems whingy. Compare this to previous Win7: - press "cntrl esc"- push up arrow- type name in search - press up to select prog- press enter- program opens, literally seconds and no need for me to be flapping around tapping screens, shifting from mouse to screen to keyboard ect....
Not only that, if i go directly to the "apps metro screen" my recent apps arnt logged first. So when i want to open somthing like notepad or calculator again i need to go find them in the list of a bazzilion badly grouped apps.
So even though this is a very specific example, i find this to be typical of trying to get anything to happen on Win8. No only that, often drop down menus are hidden and harder to find. And IE in metro mode can go eat a peanut, its just stupid. Although i did notice it seems to have dissapeared, and clicking the IE icon now opens in desktop mode. Not that i use it, firfox is my choice for browsing.
So rant over, but does anyone else find Windows 8 to be just plain annoying and not nessacarily a step in the right direction for the once dominating Microsoft. I also struggle to see how this is going to intergrate into peoples workstations in working environments:hmmm: