The fact that the Windows 8 Start Screen or whatever Metro is being called
Doesn't fit onto the one screen is what i find a problem.
Sure with a Touch Screen device or maybe using Kinect it's fine for those Touch/Motion Users but on a Desktop Computer scrolling across acres of screen real estate to find the Tile that I want is a nuisance. It may be great for Mobile Devices but for Desktop Users with more than a few programs installed it's a time consuming waste of my time and as a direct result my companies money.
My current Windows 8 Test Bed has about as many programs installed as shown on that overpopulated Win 7 Desktop shown in the article and it's pitiful constantly having to scroll from one side to the other looking for little used programs as customers ask how they can do what they need to. I find the XP desktop easy to use and while I do have a 7 system available because most customers still are using XP it's what I'm using most of the time and to be perfectly honest if M$ continue with their Metro GUI only it's an OS I'll not be using as the primary OS of choice.
XP still has years of service left in it for my customers and when they finally need to move away from it because there are not any sufficient drivers available for their new computers 7 will fill the bill for a very long time to come. Hopefully the next version of Windows will move away from the idiot idea of a One Size Fits All and it has to be Touch Screen to be a workable One Size but I very much doubt it. Microsoft will continue with their imposed changes because they are incapable of doing anything else. Though to be perfectly honest I still insist that the Windows 3 Interface was better than Metro. At least with that you would drop into a "Subwindow" of associated applications instead of needing a single tile for each application.
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