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I had briefly the misfortune of working with Windows 8. Double clicking on a PDF resulted in some sort of PDF reader opening up in fullscreen, without any obvio
by mercurial 11y ago
I had briefly the misfortune of working with Windows 8. Double clicking on a PDF resulted in some sort of PDF reader opening up in fullscreen, without any obvious way of turning it into a normal window. I eventually resorted to installing a third-party PDF reader. If that's the new black, I can understand why people would want to stick with Windows 7.
- Joeri 11y agoEven on 8 that full-screen pdf reader now has a title bar with close button (since 8.1). And on 10 it's a normal window. Yes, MS messed up the UX on windows 8.0. They realized it, they fixed it.
- mercurial 11y agoNonetheless, if that's representative of Metro, I'll just say "no thanks". The problem is that Metro is apparently intended for phone/tablets. It may be good for this kind of scenario, the little I've seen of it is disastrous for desktop use. I want the best use of screen real estate, not an ersatz Android intended for small touch screens.
- chris_wot 11y agoThey "fixed" metro by reverting back to the old UI. I don't know what crack the Microsoft UX team were smoking, but the utterly ballsed up on Windows 8, so badly that it made Vista look tame. Windows 7 has been around for a long time because of the mess that was Windows 8.
- Joeri 11y agoThey assumed that the primary windows 8 user was going to be someone on a 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop. I used windows 8.0 on such a device, and liked it a lot. Windows 7's UI was a really poor fit for that device.
- chris_wot 11y agoI don't disagree. Shoehorning a tablet interface into a desktop was equally ridiculous.