What do you think about Metro?
On a PC it's utterly horrible.

Then I started hearing a steady drumbeat from the developer community, from people I respect. The guru class of Microsoft-related developers are on fire about Metro. They seem to think it is the first new paradigm in 10 years. So now I have an open mind. It's different, true. I am not sure about the desktop but I think Metro is going to be a serious player on tablets. It seems made for a touch interface. And it has won at least one award from a designers' group.

I don't know who you've been listening to, but most people hate it outright already. I work for Sony now, and we're actively trying to port over apps to Win 8. It's a long drawn out nightmare, and I can tell you that higher-up are seriosuly considering alternatives. No one in their right mind appreciates this UI.

As Craig said, people will use it in desktop mode, and that's about it.

Hey Microsoft, FAIL!





>What do you think about Metro?
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>At first I was dismissive. A gimmick, I thought, the latest marchitecture from Redmond. A radical UI from a company whose UIs made us yawn a long time ago.
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>Then I started hearing a steady drumbeat from the developer community, from people I respect. The guru class of Microsoft-related developers are on fire about Metro. They seem to think it is the first new paradigm in 10 years. So now I have an open mind. It's different, true. I am not sure about the desktop but I think Metro is going to be a serious player on tablets. It seems made for a touch interface. And it has won at least one award from a designers' group.
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>All revolutionary things are both revered and reviled. They force us out of our comfort zones.