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Metro was wonderful on Windows Phone and tablets . Garbage on the desktop. All Microsoft had to do to suppress the outrage was give people back the start menu o
by muststopmyths 4y ago
Metro was wonderful on Windows Phone and tablets . Garbage on the desktop. All Microsoft had to do to suppress the outrage was give people back the start menu on desktops like Windows 7 and allow a setting to turn on tablet mode if auto detection didn't work.
Instead, probably because at that time they brought in people with no history in the Windows org to manage the Window org, we got a 10+ year decline of Windows that has accelerated in recent years.
- Arainach 4y agoYour timeline is off - SteveSi/Julie/etc. were brought in to lead the Win7 effort. Win8 was not a significant leadership change.
- b1ue64 4y ago> SteveSi/Julie/etc. were brought in to lead the Win7 effort. And Win7 barely changed anything.
- muststopmyths 4y agoWindows 7 was just Vista gussied up, they didn't have leeway to change it.