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Yay or Nay? The Windows 8 Metro Interface

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Bob2004:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 16, 2012, 07:19:20 AM ---vista's aero was like a half-baked cookie, it wasn't delicious at all.
i don't know if you can disable aero in vista but in win7 it can, also win7 when stripped of it's features is lighter and a tad more responsive than xp.

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Aero is pretty much the same in both Vista and 7 in terms of functionality (and yes, it can be disabled in both). The main difference is that they optimised it quite significantly in Windows 7, so it's no longer such a resource hog (although it was hardly the most resource-intensive part of Vista, either).


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--- Quote from: zherok on December 16, 2012, 04:52:13 AM ---As far as too aggressive is concerned, couldn't the same argument have been used going from 3.11 to 95? People are going to cling desperately to whatever old system they're used to no matter how slow you go, but sometimes you need to shake things up rather than introduce new features at a glacial pace. I dunno if Metro is it, but it was a pretty big leap going from program groups to a start menu.

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if i remember correctly 3.11 was purely DOS right? 95 still has a DOS emulator which kind of amended the hate from the transition. the thing that made windows8's UI hate-able

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Windows 95's big change wasn't related to DOS - you could still run DOS programs from Windows 95 just as easily as from 3.1, and it still came with DOS installed, so you could easily switch to the full DOS OS if you wanted to. The big change in Windows 95 was adding the start menu. It was very different to the old system of program groups, which is why some people were concerned when it was announced, but IIRC once it was released, most criticism dried up right away because it was such a big improvement. Unlike the new Windows 8 interface, which is considered by many to not be better; hence the ongoing criticism post-release.

kitamesume:
odd the 2nd part of my post was cut off after "hate-able"...

well the continuation of it is -

the thing that made windows8's UI hate-able is it's not obvious(if its available at all) toggle-off metro, if they made it pretty obvious and turning off metro causes it to fallback to goo'old startmenu then we'd see less hate right now.

Tatsujin:
Tried Windows 8 on a laptop we purchased (Core i3 Ivy Bridge), half the things I usually know where they go are like ... not there. My 11 year old sister showed me the things I usually go in when I set up a new computer. I'd probably wait until the first service pack is out then I'll purchase it. It's a good operating system, so far.

Mirgond:
First Service Pack will be Windows 9

MS announced that they will switch to a yearly release cycle like Apple.

megido-rev.M:
That's pretty lame.

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