Windows 8 Consumer Preview Does Not Offer A Known Way To Disable Metro
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Reminds me of a client we upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 2000, years ago. Had to find a way to get access to Windows 3 version of File Manager, or she wouldnt touch the machine. Such aversion to change has me baffled. My suggestion – get used to it. You will have to go that route eventually any way. I highly doubt Windows 3 style File manager will work in Windows 7, 8 or even likely Windows XP. Point being, sooner or later, you are going to have to get used to it. Might as well do it sooner than later.
“I’m sure it is possible to create an external program that might offer something like it as a replacement. Only time will tell. For now though, it isn’t an option.”
uhhh… are you daft? those programs have been around for ages. and people are already using them for windows 8.
and i don’t offer a known way to buy this piece of shit, since a lot of programs and games don’t work, and the metro ui is an insult to pc users, especially the damn lockscreen. what is this? a pc or a fuckin smartphone??
I have experience with computers all the back to the TRS-80s. Have seen almost all versions of Windows, less the NT stuff. DOS was my choice over Window 3 and 3.1. LOVE, to this day, W95! Best of the best. Have modest experience with Ubuntu and Linux Mint, even the current stuff. On the Mac side, OS9 on the original iMac, Leopard and Snow Leopard with an Intel Mac. That said, I hate Metro UI. It might be fine for a touch screen on a smart phone or tablet. Even then, I still hate it. I will never want to own Windows 8, and if I weren’t low vision, I would not be using Windows today. Metro has me back into a hateful corner of what to do next. It is wrong for Microsoft to do as they please with no regard for the consumer who purchases all their products.
UPDATE: W8CP has failed, just as quickly as W8DP did. After a few days, something I cannot fix, sent W8 into a loop of rebooting. Funny, nothing happened in Windows Update the day prior. Both versions of W8 would cause my PC to boot itself in the dark of night. So the dual boot configuration has been deleted and the experiment is over for me.
My problem with Metro is that it’s just an ugly UI. It’s useful (more or less), but it’s possibly one of the ugliest interfaces I’ve ever seen in a commercial application. With very little possibility for customization it’s either really ugly, kind of ugly, not so ugly.
Windows 8 is a beautiful OS and i’m happy that microsoft is evolving the OS like they are because if we had another version of Windows Vista or Windows 7, then people would be complaining that Microsoft isn’t innovating. Good Job Microsoft