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You're quite right. That is ridiculous. It's ridiculous because when you install it and start it up it tells you about the hot corners and then lo and behold: t
by zarify 13y ago
You're quite right. That is ridiculous. It's ridiculous because when you install it and start it up it tells you about the hot corners and then lo and behold: there's the power button.
It actually physically pains me to be a Windows apologist, but it was right there.
The 'how to close apps' one I'll give you though, because the way they handle Windows 8 apps seems to be batshit crazy when viewed along side regular Windows apps on the same machine. If they'd just decided to go down that similar to iOS route with all their apps it'd make more sense, but having both systems there is just weird.
Personally I don't see the need to change it. Stick to their guns and people will complain about it and use it anyway. Then when the next non-trivial (or not) change comes along they'll bitch about that too and everyone will say Microsoft is doomed all over again.
- toyg 13y agoWelcome to the real world: users (even power users) don't read on-screen instructions. You can throw at them hundreds of pop-ups and tutorials and wizards, and they still will just go next-next-next. This is why UI designs must be intuitive. Metro is extremely intuitive in many ways, but it royally screwed up some basics (no shutdown button, no alternative to hot corner... no no no).
- susi22 13y agoI didn't get any tutorial of the new features with the hot corners etc.. Never got any introduction. I googled it and closing apps is described here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-close-app http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-close-app Funny part is that it just doesn't work with a mouse. It does work well on my Win8 tablet. Also, I didn't wanna use the power button since I wanted to actually restart it. (Actually I was in a VM).