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I gave the developer preview a try when it came out and I came to pretty much the same conclusions. Something about hitting the start button and not getting th
by jakejake 14y ago
I gave the developer preview a try when it came out and I came to pretty much the same conclusions.
Something about hitting the start button and not getting the menu just feels so wrong. It seems so extreme to make the OS default to one app, full screen all the time. Maybe I'm just old school or whatever but having only one app on the screen at a time slows me down about 1000%. Maybe we'll all be using tablets soon or something and I just need to get over it?
- goostavos 14y agoCan you explain that a little more? I haven't played with 8 at all yet, but surely they allow more than one app at a time?
- jakejake 14y agowell you can go into "Desktop" mode which functions more or less like the current Windows with one major exception - that is when you click the start button you don't get a pop-up menu, instead it takes you back to the metro launch page (full screen). It's very jarring for a windows user to lose your start menu. It feels like they want to keep pulling you out of desktop and back into the metro mode - which is basically a tablet design for using one app at a time (just like ipad, android, etc). For people who like lots of windows open at once it stinks!