Windows 8: 10 Changes Microsoft Will Bring to Your PC

[tulx]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]How do you open applications side-by-side in Metro?[/citation] That was shown in one of the previous demonstrations of Win8. I'm sure you can find it on YouTube. Seemed pretty straightforward.

 

[ianj14]

[citation][nom]dconnors[/nom]Andy gives plenty of information to make up your own mind, so why can't he express his own opinion while doing so? Do you really think Tom's Guide readers can't separate Andy's opinion on the Metro UI from the non-biased information that goes along with it?While Andy makes it clear that he doesn't like Metro, the biggest issue is not being able to choose a boot screen. Booting into Metro on a tablet or some other touchscreen device is perfectly fine (and I think Andy would agree with me on that), but if I'm running Windows 8 on a gaming machine that has no use for Metro, I don't want to have to boot into that UI and then switch over every single time I turn my machine on. Choice is the operative word here.-Devin Connors, Tom's Guide[/citation]
Which reinforces my belief that Microsoft are missing implementing a basic and good principle - separate the interface from the underlying OS core, and keep different interfaces physically separate (like Linux does today, and Win 3.1 did with DOS in the old days).

If they got that into their blood, then they could have as many different interfaces as they need for the device types that Windows would be aimed at, each optimized for the specific device Windows would be on. It would also be far easier to maintain as a tweak/bug fix/change needed for one device type wouldn't risk being a problem on other device types.

 

[DjEaZy]

... changes don't mean improvements...

 

[godfather666]

I like most of the new changes, but not being able to disable Metro (completely) is a major deal breaker for me.

It would be very stupid if Microsoft won't give us that option.

 

[Guest]

Okay, I've been trying Windows 8 Developer Preview and Windows Server Developer Preview over the last couples of days.

The thing that annoys me most, and by far, is the complete suppression of the Windows Classic UI theme. The first thing I did when I installed a new Windows XP, Vista, or Seven was to revert the UI back to the classic theme. I have loved it for years since it allowed for thin window borders, and minimum pixel use on screen and limited wastage of display area.

But this time we are forced to be stuck with whatever UI design they came up with for the tablet folks and average computer users. That is not to be accepted.

Little visual comparison : http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2764/wtfserverdevprev.png

Please Microsoft, give us professionals and power users the Classic theme back, if not by default at least as an option ! We don't want nor need to waste pixels in uselessly thick windows borders and oversized title bars !

And give us the classic start menu back too... even if it's through registry settings...

 

[mchuf]

Why does MS think that people want to put fingerprints all over their monitors? Who in the world would want to A) reach over their keyboard or B) if they don't have a keyboard, stick a monitor so close to ones face to use a touch-screen?

And is the Xbox 360 emulator still a rumor, or has it been confirmed?

 

[hannibal]

Ofcourse there will be different UI for tablet and desktop!
Alternate UI's has been confirmed by MS, so it is no good complaing about metro. If you don't like metro, don't use it. Simple as that.
What would be interesting is how Metro behave compared other Tablet UI?
What desk top UI will look like (most propably a lot of like win7, but there seems to be ribbons like in those Office tools. And then there ofcource will be those classic alternatives.) MS don't won't to alienate their corporate customers!

 

[back_by_demand]

So many haters, keep using Windows 7, whilst the Windows 8 users are getting all the benefits when they fast-switch to the normal UI in a single click.

I like the heat map idea, lets you see a "Weather App" sucking 80% of your CPU - obvious malware

I would like to see native Bluray reading and writing

Would also like to see native Kinect for gesture control, so I can put it on the HTPC

 

[flagoman]

this type looks more suitable for touchscreen pc. don't like metro to much to go and buy a 24 inches touchscreen led lcd display panel maybe ill pass on win8 upgrade. i would like the os in my touchscreen cellphone tought

 

[muddypantz]

I smell another Vista fiasco coming.

 

[nebun]

i am not so crazy about METRO...everything else looks ok...i hope i can disable the METRO GUI

 

[Soma42]

What I'm excited for:

-GPU acceleration
-Improved Task Manager
-HTML 5 (no more crashes b/c of flash)

What I'm not excited for:

-No Start menu
-Tablet Style Interface
-Social Networking built-in (really Microsoft???? wth?)
-Xbox live integration (if I wanted 8 year olds calling me faggy I would play on xbox live)

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]dellon[/nom]foxconn products is great![/citation]
i did not know that foxconn made software for microsoft.....am i missing something?

 

[aje21]

Nice to see features from SysInternals Process Explorer making their way into Task Manager.

 

[extremepcs]

I have Metro disabled on the developer preview via a simple registry hack. After doing so and rebooting, it looks nearly identical to Win 7. Same start menu, control panel, etc...

 

[Guest]

I believe they said "reimagining" not "reimaging".

And touch screen on a desktop makes about as much sense as using a mouse with an iPad. Unless of course you can take that touch screen with you and use it as a tablet.

 

[Guest]

If you people are not inhailing you should start, thats the ugliest thing I have ever seen, graphics of a 3rd grader

 

[Guest]

i think Microsoft should just role out update to windows 7 for tablet optimized with all this new features so that all the desktop user out there shut up, and only update when they like to use the features. Or release it as windows 7 tablet edition

After all current win 7 is already perfect to them desktop user.

Microsoft is really left out in mobile market, with ipads, honeycomb, playbooks around. They really need to do this.

 

[Pooua]

It seems like Microsoft used to have an OS in which the user had to type the name of a program to launch it. Some 3rd party apps even popped up auto-complete for anything typed on... oh! what did they call it? The order line? For the DON'T OS? I used it for the longest time, but when I saw Windows 95, I knew it was obsolete. Just click on the program I want and away I go! That's handy, because, as you can see, I have trouble with names.

The article didn't mention that Metro isn't going to support dialog boxes. I guess that is more a concern for developers than for users. However, Metro also apparently won't support overlapping windows.

 

[rizonesoft]

Microsoft removed the Start Menu and the Start Button completely. If I wanted to do all my office work on a tablet, I would have gone and bought myself a new iPad (which I still might do, if I’m forced to choose between a Windows tablet and an iPad). Why can’t we just leave the tablet market to Apple and the PC market to Microsoft? Don’t get me wrong, I like Windows 8 in general, but what happened to freedom of speech and choices. In Windows XP we had the choice to switch back to the Classic Start Menu and in Windows 7 we have XP Mode.

It looks like in Windows 8, the only choices we have are to tablet or not to tablet. Rizonesoft started a petition to ask Microsoft to at least give us a choice between the interfaces and bring the Start Menu back. Go here: http://www.rizonesoft.com/2012/bring-back-the-start-menu/ for more information about the petition. Please help Rizonesoft accomplish this almost impossible task by signing and sharing this petition.