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Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#2Very interesting article. I am interested to see how the use of mouse and keyboard evolves as more OSs/UIs move towards a touch based interface.
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#3The only thing that is annoying me with Windows 8 so far are the contextual menus where you need to move your mouse to the bottom right-hand side. The delay is too long and it makes the experience less fluid IMO.
I'm liking the Start Metro screen and getting used to the dynamic tiles.
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#4Very interesting article. I am interested to see how the use of mouse and keyboard evolves as more OSs/UIs move towards a touch based interface.
There's very little in Windows 8 that requires multiple touch input - pretty much the only thing touch input can do and the mouse can't. This is what's ultimately allowing Win8 to keep mouse keyboard and touch on the same level.
Compare with Apple and some of the iOS gestures such as four-finger (!) swipes...
(I wrote the article)
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#5The only thing that is annoying me with Windows 8 so far are the contextual menus where you need to move your mouse to the bottom right-hand side. The delay is too long and it makes the experience less fluid IMO. I'm liking the Start Metro screen and getting used to the dynamic tiles.
Have you tried right clicking the whitespace? or are you talking about the charms bar, which does indeed take too long to come up?
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#6There is a certain amount of irony that Windows 8 works quite well is most (all?) virtualization software except Microsoft's VirtualPC.
Also, is anyone else feeling that they love Windows 8 on a tablet but are constantly frustrated trying to use it on a desktop? One of my first experiences that kind of sums of my experience was clicking on a 2-second mp3 (I wanted that gorgeous notification tone), only to find myself waiting 3 seconds to it to switch from Desktop/Explorer to Metro/Music Player, play my 2-second clip and then leaving me staring at a rather dumb, blank looking Metro media player. (It would be helped if there was a metro version of explorer, but still, I feel very limited without many windows open and expose mode, and of course windows 8 hasn't really improved the command prompt.)
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#7“If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few months, you probably know all of the following:”
Whenever I see articles starting in this manner, I suppose that:
1. The writer does not know how to write; or
2. The writer is so far immersed in their topic that they have lost sight of what is important and relevant to the rest of the population.
In either case, I stop reading.
Am I wrong? (Genuine question, not rhetorical!)
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#8Metro is quite impressive as a tablet UI. Frankly, I think it's the only legitimate alternative to iPad. But on a mouse-driven desktop it's at best uncompelling, and at worst baffling and frustrating.
There's a risk Microsoft could pull another Vista, where an overwhelmingly negative public perception of Metro on the desktop overshadows some otherwise good features.
The other risk is that if they insist on coupling ARM Metro releases with Desktop Windows releases it may prevent them from moving as fast as they'll need to effectively compete with iOS. Development speed has been a problem for Microsoft these last 10 years or so.
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#9There is a certain amount of irony that Windows 8 works quite well is most (all?) virtualization software except Microsoft's VirtualPC. Also, is anyone else feeling that they love Windows 8 on a tablet but are constantly frustrated trying to use it on a desktop? One of my first experiences that kind of sums of my experience was clicking on a 2-second mp3 (I wanted that gorgeous notification tone), only to find myself…
It doesn't work on the free VMWare software, though it does work on VMWare Workstation 8 (not free).
Not that that disqualifies your statement in anyway, it is rather funny that it doesn't work on their own VM software. It even works on Oracle's open source VirtualBox.
Re: Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
#10The only thing that is annoying me with Windows 8 so far are the contextual menus where you need to move your mouse to the bottom right-hand side. The delay is too long and it makes the experience less fluid IMO. I'm liking the Start Metro screen and getting used to the dynamic tiles.
A shortcut you can use is Windows key + C.
More here:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/getting-starte...
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/windows-8-tricks-tips-and-s...
Looking at the comments, it's like people can't even spend 5 or 10 mins getting to know a new UI in a redesigned OS. And then some complain about the dumbification of everything. Maybe they're wrong and everything must be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator in order to be successful.