It is, but how you get to it and what it contains is different. Live tiles are nice (pity they don't apply to desktop apps including outlook), but we've lost recent, popup folders; and we've got to go different ways to find different settings; are faced with two taskbars instead of one; and the end user needs to know if the application they are running is windows or windows RT based to know which taskbar to look in.
Like I said, it's close, but as is it's going to a get a massive negative consumer backlash for desktop machines; and probably an even more massive "wait and see" from corporate use. Imagine all the documents that have to be changed to remove references to clicking on the "start" button ;) |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney |Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 10:43 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: Win8 Release Preview | |I just started thinking of that metro screen as a full-screen start menu and my |yearning for one went away. | |Joseph | |On 07/06/2012, at 9:58 AM, "Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)" |<andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote: | | | | I’m not sure I get the yearning for a start menu. Maybe I use it differently |from others, but the metro screen lays out my commonly used apps nicely, and |anything else I need I can find just by typing the first couple of letters of its name. |The metro screen comes to the front when I hit the Windows button (like the |start menu does in 7) and all my keyboard shortcuts work (and then some). | | | | Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, |Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 | Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • |http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat <http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat> | | | | From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors | Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 9:41 AM | To: ozDotNet | Subject: Re: Win8 Release Preview | | | | On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bill McCarthy |<bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: | | IMO, windows 8 is close, but it could be a lot better. I love the windows | phone like UI **concept**, and I love the idea of the similarities between | the different form factors, BUT the current release preview looks to me |to | be designed for content consumption not content creation. Where, for | example, is My documents gone ? | | | | I think you're right - it is very close. The problem is that there is a lot of |traditional desktop functionality that has become a casualty of MS' iPad fear. | | | | I reckon if the start menu came back and they got rid of the need for hot |spots in the corners it could be a lot more usable. | | | | Metro vs desktop apps schism is pretty difficult to live with. | | | | -- | David Connors | da...@connors.me
