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That's what everyone said about windows 7 and XP and NT ... People always are afraid of change until they get used to it. Metro is really just a replacement sta

by hnriot 14y ago

That's what everyone said about windows 7 and XP and NT ... People always are afraid of change until they get used to it. Metro is really just a replacement start button, if you give it some time so it's familiar you'll be fine. Everyone hated the start button back when too.

citricsquid 14y ago
I don't have an opinion either way, but this stands out to me: > That's what everyone said about windows 7 Did people say that about Windows 7? I remember Vista was awful and nobody liked it and people were (naturally) apprehensive about Windows 7 prior to release but from what I recall -- granted my memory could be poor -- Windows 7 was well received at release and I don't know of anyone off hand that had problems with it but I can name quite a few that complained about Vista. Although I guess it could be argued that Windows 7 wasn't anything new, it was just Vista but how Vista should have been...
macspoofing 14y ago
>That's what everyone said about windows 7 and XP and NT Nobody said that about Windows 7.
mbreese 14y ago
> Everyone hated the start button back when too I don't know about that. I remember playing with Windows 95 the day it came out, and I thought that the start button was awesome. Of course, this is compared to Windows 3.1(.1).
to3m 14y ago
Time spent getting used to change is usually time that could have been better spent doing something else. That's particularly true when the end result is that you're back where you were (but it's now 1 week/month/year later). There's change-as-in-progress, and change-as-in-another-meaningless-revolution-of-the-tech-hamsterwheel. I have no doubt at all that the internals of Windows 8 represent progress. The replacement of the start menu with Metro, on the other hand, smells so far very much like the hamsterwheel.

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That's what everyone said about windows 7 and XP and NT ... People always are afraid of change until they get used to it. Metro is really just a replacement sta

by hnriot 14y ago

citricsquid 14y ago
I don't have an opinion either way, but this stands out to me: > That's what everyone said about windows 7 Did people say that about Windows 7? I remember Vista was awful and nobody liked it and people were (naturally) apprehensive about Windows 7 prior to release but from what I recall -- granted my memory could be poor -- Windows 7 was well received at release and I don't know of anyone off hand that had problems with it but I can name quite a few that complained about Vista. Although I guess it could be argued that Windows 7 wasn't anything new, it was just Vista but how Vista should have been...
macspoofing 14y ago
>That's what everyone said about windows 7 and XP and NT Nobody said that about Windows 7.
mbreese 14y ago
> Everyone hated the start button back when too I don't know about that. I remember playing with Windows 95 the day it came out, and I thought that the start button was awesome. Of course, this is compared to Windows 3.1(.1).
to3m 14y ago
Time spent getting used to change is usually time that could have been better spent doing something else. That's particularly true when the end result is that you're back where you were (but it's now 1 week/month/year later). There's change-as-in-progress, and change-as-in-another-meaningless-revolution-of-the-tech-hamsterwheel. I have no doubt at all that the internals of Windows 8 represent progress. The replacement of the start menu with Metro, on the other hand, smells so far very much like the hamsterwheel.