On a touch interface, I would agree--it has a lot of design merits. But on a traditional PC with a mouse interface, it looks fscking stupid. I hope that they give us an option to completely disable it.
The inability to move an app between Metro and "regular" desktops is completely missing the boat too, IMO. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? The more I play with metro the more I like it. For point of sale systems its fantastic Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:31:15 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? F@#% metro, re tar ded :) On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:37:04AM -0600, Greg Sevart wrote: > Duncan--don't look now, but Windows 8 is due this year. :) > > ...though, frankly, I'm far from sold on Metro. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Vista SP3? > > Francisco, > Thanks for this info. I have started my shopping for W7pro. > I have questions. L8R. > Plan to end with 3 W7pro clients and 2 old XP clients. > Best, > Duncan > > > On 01/27/2012 10:57, Francisco Tapia wrote: > > well i'm a little ignorant on my win7 pricing because well I get my > > work laptops pre-loaded from the helpdesk and all my other home > > machines are osx ( ~$30 for the sw upgrades) but a google search > > kicked out ~ $70 for win7 premium vs ultimate, which really I don't > > know what MS refers to as home ultimate vs the workstation ultimate... > > but I do agree dropping in another 1/3rd of the original cost on the > > damn thing doesnt make a lot of sense except that it's a better > > piece of mind, I had vista on the current worklaptop and it sucked, > > I had errors, my visual studio would crash... if i left the damn > > thing running for over 2 days I had odd behaviors, now I'm on win7 and its' > > actually beyond cool, as stable as my work xp machine and it's > > speedy/zippy with it's nforce3 flash drive ;) > > > > -Francisco > > http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... > > <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 20:23, > [email protected]<[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> For sure, but I'm not going to lay out for another copy of 7 for > >> this thing. > >> > >> > >> On January 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM Francisco Tapia<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> if it runs vista, wouldn't it be better to upgrade to win7? (good > >>> score > >> tho) > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... > >> > >> "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." > >> > -- Bryan G. Seitz
