>It wasn't really the UI that people hated in Vista, it was UAC.

It will be Metro in Win8, although the UI changes on the desktop suck too.

And lots of people hated the UI in Vista - changing the UI simply for the sake of changing the UI may make marketing people drool, but users get pissed.

As I have said, Metro on phones and tablets (to some extent) is fine. Metro on a desktop is simply something to remove (except you can't AFAIK - all you can do is try to bypass it as much as possible).

Since Metro seems to be the biggest Microsoft hype for Win8, I'll be recommending skipping Win8 to my clients for all except possibly tablet use.

That may change if Microsoft makes some intelligent changes to the OS before they release it.


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>I'm using Win8 every day and spend all my time working in desktop mode. I hardly ever see Metro.
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>Microsoft's reasoning is that you'll have one UI on phone, tablet, laptop, desktop. This means you're familiar with the UI so it's easy to switch between them.
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>I think you'll see a big increase in sales of touch screen on the desktop and laptop in order to fully use Metro.
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>>Does anyone think it doesn't suck on a desktop?
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>>Why in the he77 Microsoft would try to make that a default for an OS that likely targets desktop users is absolutely beyond me.
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>>The OS itself seems pretty good, but they've Vista'd the interface. I would have expected them to have learned not to throw a crappy interface at people just to be different. Obviously I was wrong.
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>>Of course even the non-Metro desktop has changed fairly drastically (not Vista'd, but considerably different).
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>>They should make Metro a non-default installation option - "Do you want a cutesy touch interface or are you using a real computer?"
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>>Yeah - I've been playing with that and Visual Studio 11 all day.