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If users are actively trying to circumvent Metro, maybe that's a sign they don't like it?
This is starting to look like a worse train wreck than Vista.
Hopefully some decent start screen replacements will come out to make using Win8 bearably, because there are some real improvements to the OS on the technical side.
One must wonder if Microsoft has a similar development cycle as the Call of Duty series. With Microsoft's Infinity Ward team leading the charge with ME, Vista and Windows 8If users are actively trying to circumvent Metro, maybe that's a sign they don't like it?
This is starting to look like a worse train wreck than Vista.
Hopefully some decent start screen replacements will come out to make using Win8 bearably, because there are some real improvements to the OS on the technical side.
Don't really care too much about this. I boot my computer like once a month.
TWO KEYPRESSES A MONTH! MY GOD! Alert the President.
When you boot to the desktop, what do you do? You LAUNCH A PROGRAM. And where do you go to launch a program? The START SCREEN. Booting to the desktop would do nothing more than add a step. It's 100% pointless.I don't understand why people feel the need to make post like this.
Good for you, but it doesn't change the issue discussed here because how you use your PC is not representative of how the majority of users out there do. For the majority of users, they would still have to see whatever Microsoft wants them to see (for whatever reason) once a day, if not more. If its an inconvenience, then it would have a major impact for many.
And what about choices? Just because we don't need something doesn't meant others don't either. Are we happy to have less choices?![]()
When you boot to the desktop, what do you do? You LAUNCH A PROGRAM. And where do you go to launch a program? The START SCREEN. Booting to the desktop would do nothing more than add a step. It's 100% pointless.
Which can also appear on the Start Screen, particularly since it's capable of showing so many icons at once. I fail to see how this impedes your workflow in any way.Click on the taskbar icon of my often used programs...
Which can also appear on the Start Screen, particularly since it's capable of showing so many icons at once. I fail to see how this impedes your workflow in any way.
Why is there no positive news to do with Windows 8?
the fucking article said:For those still lamenting Microsoft's decision to do away with the Start button on Windows 8, there's always Stardock's Start8. One of my readers, David Nation, says Start8 still works on the Windows 8 RTM build.
Because contrary to belief nerds hate change, especially if it forces them to learn something new.
Because contrary to belief nerds hate change, especially if it forces them to learn something new.
Because contrary to belief nerds hate change, especially if it forces them to learn something new.
Because contrary to belief nerds hate pointless and negative change, especially if it forces them to conform with no options.
Fixed that for you![]()
Love this thread. "Microsoft made it so you have to see the Metro screen when you boot." is now "Microsoft forcing people to use the Windows Store!!"
Microsoft, fuck you. Seriously, eat shit and die.
Windows 7 wasn't really an interface change on Vista, it was just better/faster/stronger.I'm pretty sure that "fear change" opinion is a lot of horse shyt
No. Because of Store.
Microsoft, fuck you. Seriously, eat shit and die.
Linux is starting to look real nice...
Oh come on you guys. You're thinking about it all the wrong way. Consider this a challenge. Find a way to defeat Microsoft's policy and make the desktop work in your favor. Take the Linux approach and when you see the default desktop settings it gives you, beat it down and put up something that makes you happy.
If it can be programmed in, it can be programmed out.
But I do believe the $40 price tag is going to sway a ton of people who otherwise would not have bothered with Windows 8 at all.