Windows 8 General Impressions

[Sushubh]

https://imgur.com/nnyxw https://imgur.com/qJvYz

the bezel is annoying. and ugly.

 

[Sushubh]

major annoyance. searching in metro does not show results from let's say control panel.

i cannot load mouse settings from metro. i have to search for control panel. open it and then load mouse settings.

https://imgur.com/mSsqm

 

[Sushubh]

these hybrid panels are annoying.

https://imgur.com/GJRTC

now i have to take the cursor to the top to enable/disable VPN.

there is no option to manage your network connections from here. again have to search for control panel.

 

[Sushubh]

alt-tab include both windows and metro apps.

https://imgur.com/VH3yi

this is sort of annoying because you end up opening up tons of metro apps and closing them is not that easy.

 

[Toocool]

"microgonesoft" really 😀

 

[shatrughan]

Drag ur mouse to the left upper corner and after that just right click on them if u want to close them. If u want to close any metro app just drag them down

 

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[Sushubh]

right. i know how to close them 😀 just saying that apps do not feature the quit option on their UI.

https://imgur.com/jVHWD

 

[Sushubh]

https://imgur.com/UN5xl

Metro apps sometime takes as long as 5 seconds to load.

 

[Sushubh]

https://imgur.com/fd7IV

also do not like the centrally aligned app name in title bar. this is something that third party themes generally use. os x i believe also does the same.

 

[moindear]

App store takes time to load for me too...kind of annoying.Further if u install an app, u cant immediately go back to the store, the back button will be disabled for 4-5 seconds 🙁

 

[Sushubh]

i dislike that control+w shortcut does not work to close metro apps. how do you go back using keyboard on the metro interface?

 

[moindear]

Backspace should work for going back!

 

[Sushubh]

right. backspace seems to work. i wonder why not arrow keys. 😀

support for media attachments is horrible in people's app.

https://imgur.com/mbqOM

 

[Citrus]

major annoyance. searching in metro does not show results from let's say control panel.

i cannot load mouse settings from metro. i have to search for control panel. open it and then load mouse settings.

https://imgur.com/mSsqm

To view options from control panel, click on settings in the right panel.



i dislike that control+w shortcut does not work to close metro apps. how do you go back using keyboard on the metro interface?

You can close Metro apps using Alt+F4.

 

[Sushubh]

oh. missed that. i wish they had one option for totally universal search! and yeah ctrl-f4 works. they could have enabled ctrl-w as well!