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It was a nice tablet environment and also massively wasteful and inconvenient for the vast majority of people running laptops and desktops. It was dead-on-arriv

• WorldMaker 5y ago
  It was great on laptops and desktops. One person's "wasteful" is another's "clean, crisp, friendly". Large click targets are wonderful with a mouse, per Fitz's Law. Plenty of whitespace gives the eyes places to rest. Smart uses of whitespace give the eyes smarter flows. Many of the Metro design guidelines were "old best practices" from magazines and newspapers. As our screens have scaled up to DPIs much more resembling print documents much more than CRTs and pixels the size of dimes that was a great idea ahead of its time. (And something Apple gets a lot less flack for in its "Retina" age design guidelines.) "Metro" was never "dead on arrival" it was murdered by very vocal minorities of users and developers and subsequent over-corrections that could have been better solved with smaller tweaks.
  • sirwhinesalot 5y ago
    > "Metro" was never "dead on arrival" it was murdered by very vocal minorities of users and developers and subsequent over-corrections that could have been better solved with smaller tweaks. Sure, you can believe this, and I'm sure the good folk at Microsoft believed it too. They were wrong, and so were you :) Metro not only messed up people's workflows by taking over the screen, it itself was massively inefficient for any kind of work due to low information density. The Microsoft Store was a cesspool of scamware because who the heck would develop exclusively for an unpopular platform beyond scammers trying to trick grandma. Good riddance.