Microsoft should stick to its guns and keep the Start button gone

Op-ed: If Redmond wants Metro apps to succeed, it needs education, not capitulation.

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The problem with Metro is it is a bad fit for a non-touch desktop or laptop. Essentially MS has all these computers "obsolete" because they are not touch capable without considering whether they should even be touch capable.

Telling me as a user I must new hardware because of your UI design is not smart unless you plan to purchase my replacement equipment. I have no plans to upgrade any of my equipment, laptops or desktops with touch enabled screens. So MS has told me to permanently get lost. I will take the hint and replace Windows on all my devices.

 

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Stuka87[/url]":1d6h98vn]So the author thinks that Windows users should suffer with a poorly implemented touch interface on the millions of PC's that DON'T HAVE TOUCH!

Not to mention all of us with large, multi-monitor setups have arguable the WORST user experience with Windows 8.

And then don't let me get into the horrible search setup in Windows 8. You can no longer hit the windows key, type want you want, arrow down, and hit enter. Now it requires mouse clicks to do anything.

Sounds like the editor of this article doesn't actually work on their PC outside of typing. Try hooking up three 24+ inch displays and use 15 or so programs at any given time while having to do regular searches for other programs/docs/etc. Then come back and say Windows 8 is fine.

You've got to be joking, Win 8 greatly improves the multi-monitor experience over Win 7.

I search without using my mouse all the time on Win 8, wtf are you talking about?

I'm all for people having different preferences, I don't care if people like Win 8, but it sounds like you've got no idea what you're talking about.

When performing a search, the Start Menu (Windows 7) displays results from all applicable categories in an easy to read list. In contrast, the Start Screen's (Windows 8) Apps, Settings, and Files categories only display one at a time and require the user to perform additional mousing and extra clicks to view all the results from a given search.

As for the displays, *WHY* am I forced to have a full screen menu to display a handful of items? The menu is a joke when using a large monitor.

I respect your opinion about the full screen menu, I think it's quick and easy, but I get that some find it disruptive. I find the multimon support to be fantastic, I like having the programs on each screen appear on that screens taskbar.

Regarding search, you can choose which section you want to search with these shortcuts:
Apps: Windows + Q
Settings: Windows +W
Files: Windows + F

Apps is the default, so I don't bother with that shortcut, really just use Windows button, or Windows+F typically.

This just follows the illogical implementation of stupidity in Win8. Win+Q for Apps??? Wouldn't the logical hot key be Win+A?? Duh?! CRTL+W is Close Window, yet Win+W is Settings?? Huh??! What kind of dope are they smoking?

I would just prefer Win+D = Detonate...

What's logical about Alt+F4, or Ctrl+Alt+Del? It takes a trivial amount of time to learn a shortcut, maybe you forget it a couple times and look it up again before it sticks, but the expectation that every shortcut be as simple as 'b for bold' is unrealistic.

You miss the point of any GUI that is to provide users with graphical way of doing the task in addition to any keyboard shortcuts. Most users are not that technically sophistocated and rely heavily on the GUI to do their tasks.