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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth
Ya, I'm not a basher of MS and generally like their products, but even Ill admit 8 came with a bitter pill of out of the box intuitiveness severely lacking. Especially, for traditional PC use.
Metro is in no way faster or more convenient than the start bar. Just keep that and provide larger desktop icons that are live and you've got your "tiles" This whole corners hot zones to pull up menus and functions is really disjointed as this stage of its implementation.
And, yes I had both my mother and girlfriend confused as **** trying to use my laptop.
Now, count me as someone that actually thinks they're done some good things with their new mobile platform.
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Yeah. I'm not an MS hater at all. I use a windows laptop daily for my work, and my wife has Macs for her work and at home. I'm fine with either platform for the most part... but wow. I felt like some old person techno-idiot when I was using 8 at first...and that should not be the out of the box experience for any user, much less for someone who knows his way around a computer.
Contrast that with the intuitive ease of use that Mac products tend to have out of the box. I found myself having to google simple shit like, "Where is the control panel in windows 8." It was ridiculous. I appreciate their effort to unite the their mobile platform with their PC OS, but damn.. the implementation was lacking.