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    1. I needed to look online for a tutorial on how to shut it down. This should not be the case.

    2. Control panel options no longer appear when you search for them. So you're going to have to manually open the control panel and dig for things from now on.

    3. The new metro image and video viewer keeps a convenient cache of the last image or video you were viewing, and briefly displays it when you open up a new one. So, if you've looked at some porn and then deleted it, you have to make sure to open up a clean image or video, unless you want the next person who looks at an image or video to be greeted with whatever was going on the previous image for the time it takes the desired one to load. And it takes a long time.
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    Oh wait, the third point is only true because there's no way to close Metro apps.

    I know Microsoft is taking the Android and iOS approach of suspending them until needed. But sometimes, it isn't about memory or performance. Sometimes I just don't want the goddamn clutter, or I don't want to keep my porn up.
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    Cancel Windows 8, release Metro as a tablet and phone OS. Nobody wants to use a Windows 7 emulator on a touch OS.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    Cancel Windows 8, release Metro as a tablet and phone OS. Nobody wants to use a Windows 7 emulator on a touch OS.
    Glad to see that you've finally come to your senses. I cannot see any enterprise wanting to move to Windows 8.
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    I haven't paid attention to the windows 8 hate. Can someone sum up the... 3-4 main reasons why they aren't happy with it?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Capt Billy the Kid View Post
    I haven't paid attention to the windows 8 hate. Can someone sum up the... 3-4 main reasons why they aren't happy with it?
    The main reason is the Metro interface and the seeming desire by MS to move to one OS across all platforms. That's fine for a mobile phone or a tablet but pretty shit for power user on a PC. I also cannot understand the people who say you can remove all of that but then surely you just end up with Windows 7.

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    They are actually going to disable the desktop on the tablet version. But we still get stuck with the Windows 7 emulator.
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    Say what you want about Apple, but they do not force their desktop users to play second fiddle to the tablet market.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    They are actually going to disable the desktop on the tablet version. But we still get stuck with the Windows 7 emulator.
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/201...-it-matter.php

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    Looks like MS has pissed Mozilla and Google.

    http://www.internetevolution.com/aut...doc_id=243841&

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    I was wrong, you can close metro apps on the consumer preview.

    Replacing the start menu with metro is a pretty jarring move, but they've at least made it relatively quick, so it's no hindrance. I can see their thought process with this, though. It makes sense to bring the metro platform to desktops, and give desktop users access to that market. But if you simply make metro a program, it will likely go unused. So, their solution was to throw it right in your face by making it your start menu. You can't ignore your start menu. However, since the new start menu loads pretty much as fast as the old one, and searching is relatively swift and easy, the only thing that's really annoying about it is that it takes up the whole screen. Time will tell if this interface is simply too much of a change for the average consumer. Unlike Vista, the operating system is actually swift, swifter even than Windows 7 (it boots in ~10 seconds on a standard hard drive, amongst other things), and the Metro start menu as the main annoyance is not nearly as big of a deal as the barrage of popups we saw in early editions of UAC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa View Post
    Looks like MS has pissed off Mozilla and Google.

    http://www.internetevolution.com/aut...doc_id=243841&
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    I just found this article funnily enough via the Kubuntu forum website.

    http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.ca...windows-8.html

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    i use windows 95. it runs most excellent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yurt View Post
    i use windows 95. it runs most excellent.
    I assume that you are joking!!

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