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Less blurry screenshot https://twitter.com/pouletfou51/status/451417213052809216/ph...

TBH I still find it very ugly, but then again I've disliked flat design since the first moment I've seen it.

I know I'm pretty much a caveman (and a minority) in this sense, but I really like the old, classic, sober windows 9x look and feel, so much that I doubt I'd use a new version of Windows that wouldn't allow me to use it. I'd rather do away completely with Modern UI in the desktop, but it seems some people like it; the more config options given, the better, at least for power users.

Hopefully that Fisher-Price mess they have attached to the start menu can be disabled as well.

I doubt it.

As far as I can tell this is "just" another way of pushing Metro. Excuse me: the interface formerly known as Metro.

"Oh, people complained about us forcing Metro. So let's introduce it more gradually!"

Before W8 was released, Metro may have just been something Microsoft was pushing. Now, however, developers have released third-party Metro apps, and people have these apps installed. Do you think Microsoft would unceremoniously disable access to every Metro-only app?

There is a difference between "supporting third-party metro apps if necessary" and "putting links to metro apps that have desktop-style equivalents all over the start menu"

Metro in itself isn't a terrible idea. Especially the idea of having a reduced runtime that can work across mobile/tablet/desktop. The poor idea was forcing full-screen on the desktop. Now that they're going back on that idea, by implementing the Start menu, allowing Metro apps to run in windows, and more properly integrating Metro with the desktop, it might actually be usable.

I doubt you'll be able to disable it, but presumably you could just remove all the tiles if you really don't want them.

Personally I think it might be a good idea. It seems like a reboot of what Microsoft was going for with the Windows Sidebar (or the Start screen, obviously) in a format that actually works with desktop Windows's overall UI paradigm.

I remember when people were switching from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Want to know what they missed the most? The sidebar widgets. There were all sorts of guides on how to get sidebar.exe running in W7.

The basic premise of W8, if you ignore all the window-management stuff, is that they put your sidebar widgets inside your start menu, and made that your desktop (thus also obviating desktop shortcuts.) They may have implemented it horribly, but if the W8 start screen was the desktop--if your taskbar and windows displayed on top of it--I think it'd be the perfect UX for a desktop.

>Want to know what they missed the most? The sidebar widgets.

Some people missed widgets. By W7 widgets were pretty much dead.

That blue and green combo really gave me vibes of windows xp, that is not a good thing.

right click >> Properties >> Disable metro

I hope there is an obscure setting somewhere that would disable metro completely. As a programmer I see no benefit to it.

I'd like to see them incorporate the recycle bin into the taskbar, similar to the dock in OS X.

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