[citation][nom]winningdows[/nom][id make a bet that if microsoft just did a bland win 7 clone and did a few tweaks all the tech news sites would be bleating "microsoft is out of touch with the consumer & fails again to take advantage of the mobile market" and you guys here would be saying "oh it just looks like win7, i think i'll pass until microsoft makes it worth my time, maybe w9 anyone?"]All Microsoft needs to do is to make it an option to allow user to choose which is the default UI mode, and able to switch at all. For those users who are running a x86 touchscreen tablet, the users might opt for the Metro UI as boot-up default. For those users running desktop or notebook with no touchscreen, they may opt for the traditional desktop mode. In fact, this was an actual option during the beta test, which is disabled now. It appears Microsoft is (1) arrogant, thinking that they should be more like Apple and dictate what the users really want (2) feeling insecure that if traditional desktop mode is an option, Metro UI will never gain traction in the market to compete against Google and Apple.The problem is Microsoft tried to move too fast without checking the reality. A slower pace to allow the mobile app store to grow, and let the users switch into Metro mode at their own pace, would have been a better idea.[/citation]
yeah i agree there should be a option there but i find it fast in a few different ways since it forces me to use keyboard shortcuts or that handy hidden menu that has all the basics that i used the original start menu for (right click on the start button down the bottom left) since all i used it for was to right click on my computer to get to device manager or disk management, other then that i would just drag a few shortcuts to the desktop. so my point is i don't miss it since i never used it.