But you ignore all the side scrolling you have to do and the way you have to open the charms bar when using a mouse, you know that funny looking thing with the two buttons on top?
Haha, this is getting funnier and funnier by the moment. I love the charms bar. I love the hot corners. On my desktop, all I do is move my mouse over to the upper right hand corner, down to the search button, and press. And voila search. This is much faster and more efficient than the cascading start menu.
Now luckily this is addressed in 8.1 but metro as an apps menu is still very lacking, and there is still a gap between desktop app and metro app.
Why can't there be both, which is what 8 is designed to do? There are desktop apps (heavy duty ones at that) that I use regularly, like right now, and there are metro apps that I also like to use from time to time on my desktop and almost all the time on my hybrid.
Again, your rhetoric make it sound like the desktop is gone for good and someone is holding a gun to your head forcing you to work in metro environment.
Not to mention how much of it is a pain to close off apps in win8 when using a mouse.
Again, this applies only to metro apps. It's pretty much the same as before with desktop apps. I don't know where the anger is coming from.
Multitasking is a lot to be desired in windows 8, even android does it better.
How so? I currently have photoshop, 2 visual studio instances, gimp, MS word, and MS excel open right now. I'm using them all parallel to each other.
Did MS send a hitman to force you to work only in metro?
Heck maybe it is a good thing Microsft is faltering, when android can actually serve as a better desktop OS you know you did wrong.
And yes I have used android in a VM, it actually works a lot better as a desktop OS and its not even meant for that kind of market.
Sure android has side scrolling but android isnt being pushed into the desktop market now is it?
Go ahead and use android for desktop if you want. As an experiment, I tried that for a couple months. You should, too.
My jedi power tells me your words have a lot of anger. Kinda reminds me of the following folks, which is why I think the start menu thing is comical.
Most of us don't take these folks seriously because of their overzealous rhetoric. You know, kinda like yours.
Right now, you have a lot of anger. So, you try to paint a false picture of 8 to further support your anger. Look back at your reasons for not liking 8.
-Less multi-tasking than android. This is not even close to being true. Again, I currently have photoshop, 2 visual studios, gimp, word, and excel opened working parallel to each other.
-Keep insisting that you are somehow forced to work in metro. Again, not even close to being true. I'm in the desktop environment right now. It hasn't gone anywhere.
-Pain to close apps. How so? In the desktop environment, you press on that red box with an x in it. In metro, you slide from top to bottom. How's either of these a pain?
-Charms bar looks funny. Actually, I think it's the best thing MS managed to come up with. It's right there when you want it and it's gone when you don't need it. Works for tablet and works for desktop.
You really should try harder to make a case against 8 than throwing out random tea-party rhetoric.