Even Windows 8 early adopters prefer Windows 7 by two to one

Post by k-mcgrady » Fri, Sep 28, 2012, 4:21 PM UTC

dpark wrote: post #33

k-mcgrady wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "My biggest beef is the removal of the start menu and the search bar on it - I could do/find anything from there" This is still there is a different form. WIN+F brings up the search interface in Metro (even from the desktop). Also, you can kind of window with the snap mode (grab a metro window at the top of the screen and drag it to the side. Not ideal obviously though.

Just so you know, Win+F is file search. Win+Q is app search. Win+W is settings search. I don't really understand how these particular keys were chosen, but that's what they are.

Post by louthy » Fri, Sep 28, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #12

markshepard wrote: post #4

Poor windows. It is damned if you do and damned if you don't. First they aren't radical enough. Now they are too radical. sigh.

Apple didn't remove core features from OSX to create iOS on the iPad. I think that is one of the issues here. The idea that Microsoft's tablet OS will run the same "Windows" that the PCs run. If anything, Microsoft probably should have left the regular mode alone, and done all of the radical stuff in 'Metro-mode' so that people on a desktop PC could ignore it if it got in the way of their workflow. If Microsoft thoug…