No. My point is that they made a new UI (<-- good!) and then included the old UI anyway (<-- bad). It doesn't matter how it's implemented. It's a crutch. Giving themselves that option meant that they didn't have to make sure Metro was absolutely fucking watertight.
So is the start menu/taskbar/desktop metaphor. We're just used to it.
I disagree - for the most part the desktop / taskbar thing lets me manage multiple applications how I feel best. Nothings ever perfect, but at least I get the flexibility. Every time I find myself stuck in a Metro app, though, I just hate it.
I'm not a power user. I quite like the look of win8. I need a new computer though so whatever I end up getting will probably have it on anyway. Unless I get a MacBook.
Windows 8 desktop performance is easily equal to, sometimes better depending on the task, than Windows 7 on my 3 year old Core i7. If the old UI is emulated, it's the worlds best emulator ever.
I'm guessing whoever wrote what you read was getting confused between Windows 8 Pro and RT or was just plain making shit up.
Yep, you're not wrong. As I said on Facebook, if I simply pretend Metro doesn't exist (Which, day to day, it doesn't to me) then it's easily as good or better as 7.
Mind you, I've now got an SSD and 8GB of RAM, so my laptop is flying!
Yeah, as I said, it was way before release, so was probably just a misinterpretation or or a misunderstanding on my part. Of no importance though whether it is or isn't.
Well, with Vista it was drivers. This time MS seem to have made a complete fuck up of Windows update. In particular, updates that won't configure and then take an (uninterruptable) wet-weekend to roll back. Worse with upgrades from Windows 7 apparently, but all flavours including clean installs are hit.
Which update is that? Nothing happening here.