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It's not confusing. It's unnecessary and difficult to navigate with a mouse.
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
It's not confusing. It's unnecessary
and difficult to navigate with a mouse.
- tdicola 13y agoAlso very annoying to be thrown out of your app when you just want to run a calculator or something small. Even more annoying when that calculator has to run full screen (or you have to waste time snapping it to some side).
- stackcollision 13y agoI haven't actually used Windows 8 because I've heard it's so terrible. What I don't understand is this: > In the future, all of Microsoft’s Universal Windows apps will also run in a window. What does this mean? Are you telling me that every program I run in Windows 8 is full screen? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The OS is called WINDOWS.
- vertex-four 13y agoEvery Metro app is full-screen, every normal Windows app runs in the desktop. It's remarkably annoying to have both paradigms forced on you.
- sliverstorm 13y agoWhen I want a calculator, I type: Windows Key -> "calc" -> Enter Viola, the classic Windows calculator.
- mullingitover 13y agoEven easier: use the url bar as a calculator. Google has handled math as a seach for a while now, and it's pretty good [1]. No need to leave the browser. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=y%3Dx%5E2&oq=y%3Dx%5E2 https://www.google.com/search?q=y%3Dx%5E2&oq=y%3Dx%5E2
- sliverstorm 13y agoSure, but one is not always in the browser ;)
- adamwong246 13y agoTrue, while metro is really quite nice on a tablet, it is downright terrible with a mouse. I think this could be relieved by scaling down all the tiles on a mouse-and-keyboard setup. But to me, thats an entirely different concern. It's frustrating that most users, of any platform, will simply scream and give up whenever there's a change in their routine.