The best thing MS could do is provide a real tutorial, in my opinion.
Most of the negative feedback comes from people who never tried it, or people who tried it without knowing anything about how to use it and getting frustrated.
It's still too in-my-face to suit me, but the fact is, most of the time I don't even have to see Metro at all. I have the regular background up right now as I'm typing this, a beautiful screen I downloaded from Digital Blasphemy - no one could look at my screen and tell whether I was using Win 7 or Win 8 except for the label in the lower right corner that tells us it's the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I have icons on it I can double-click to start apps, just like every earlier version of Windows. I have my taskbar set to be hidden until I bring it up by moving my mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen, as I do in my other versions of Windows, and you can see there's no Start button on the lower left when I do, but everything else is the same.
If I move my mouse to where the Start button was, a little preview pane of Metro shows up. Click on it, I get Metro, and can select any app there to start using it with one click - but in most cases I don't have to use it at all, if I don't want to. The Start button isn't gone, it's just changed to Metro and been made much more mobile-platform friendly. I can start my programs form icons on my regular desktop, and I can right-click the corner the Start button would be to get to many OS functions without switching to Metro - more than were listed on the Start menu in Win 7.
While I do wish they'd make Metro like the old Start-button menu that popped up in that it wasn't something that covered my whole screen but just a small part of it, it's not any less "intuitive", it's just different. I remember back when I started using Windows the first time, and I'll tell you, it didn't seem all that intuitive to me, and Metro is no worse than that. (No OS I've used has felt "intuitive" to me from the start.)
So far, the only real problem I have with Win 8 is that I can't find anything like "Advanced appearance settings" in it. (I'd say most people don't even know what I'm talking about.) I want that, and it will be a major irritation for me not to have it, if Win 8 is released without the abilities to customize Windows that it offers. Every previous version of Windows has had that capability, and I see no reason to leave it out - an upgrade of an OS (or anything) shouldn't ever be a downgrade in any way. The power user should ever be penalized to make things easier for those who use it in the simplest terms.
My judgment form actually having used it is that the improvements outweigh the negatives in the interface, and those negatives are generally greatly overblown. A tutorial would help people tremendously when it comes to adjusting to the changes.
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Most of the negative feedback comes from people who never tried it, or people who tried it without knowing anything about how to use it and getting frustrated.
It's still too in-my-face to suit me, but the fact is, most of the time I don't even have to see Metro at all. I have the regular background up right now as I'm typing this, a beautiful screen I downloaded from Digital Blasphemy - no one could look at my screen and tell whether I was using Win 7 or Win 8 except for the label in the lower right corner that tells us it's the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I have icons on it I can double-click to start apps, just like every earlier version of Windows. I have my taskbar set to be hidden until I bring it up by moving my mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen, as I do in my other versions of Windows, and you can see there's no Start button on the lower left when I do, but everything else is the same.
If I move my mouse to where the Start button was, a little preview pane of Metro shows up. Click on it, I get Metro, and can select any app there to start using it with one click - but in most cases I don't have to use it at all, if I don't want to. The Start button isn't gone, it's just changed to Metro and been made much more mobile-platform friendly. I can start my programs form icons on my regular desktop, and I can right-click the corner the Start button would be to get to many OS functions without switching to Metro - more than were listed on the Start menu in Win 7.
While I do wish they'd make Metro like the old Start-button menu that popped up in that it wasn't something that covered my whole screen but just a small part of it, it's not any less "intuitive", it's just different. I remember back when I started using Windows the first time, and I'll tell you, it didn't seem all that intuitive to me, and Metro is no worse than that. (No OS I've used has felt "intuitive" to me from the start.)
So far, the only real problem I have with Win 8 is that I can't find anything like "Advanced appearance settings" in it. (I'd say most people don't even know what I'm talking about.) I want that, and it will be a major irritation for me not to have it, if Win 8 is released without the abilities to customize Windows that it offers. Every previous version of Windows has had that capability, and I see no reason to leave it out - an upgrade of an OS (or anything) shouldn't ever be a downgrade in any way. The power user should ever be penalized to make things easier for those who use it in the simplest terms.
My judgment form actually having used it is that the improvements outweigh the negatives in the interface, and those negatives are generally greatly overblown. A tutorial would help people tremendously when it comes to adjusting to the changes.
😉
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