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yo_john117 on 30 May 2013
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VGKing said:
yo_john117 said:

That's not true. Windows 8 is an excellent OS, it's faster, more fluid, and just better in almost every way to their other OS's. The only problem with it is that it is very different and a lot of people don't like change. 

OT: I doubt I will be surprised by MS at E3. I expect to be happy form the game they're showing though.

Is it really though? I mean the improvements in speed are so minor and that alone isn't worth upgrading from W7. The Metro UI is useless on desktops/laptops and the Windows Store is a wasteland.  It's true that people don't like change but the biggest problem with Windows 8 that I hear people saying and that I myself have a problem with is mobile UI tacked onto a desktop OS. I would have actually preferred if they went pure Metro but it just doesn't work well. With Metro IE 10 I can't even quote people on VgChartz. 

I'd say it's a bit more than just a minor speed difference from W7. Without a SSD drive Windows 8 boots up in about 15-20 seconds vs. about 1 minute plus for Windows 7. From my experience everything else loads quicker too. 

Metro UI isn't useless either. You generally don't need it most of the time but there are some good apps (especially the default ones). Metro IE10 isn't really that good (except on touch devices). But that's why you just download Chrome for the computer. As far as the Windows Store being a wasteland, well, that really isn't the case. It still is missing quite a few bigger apps (which is offset by the default apps that cover just about every base) but it's gaining apps at a much higher rate than iOS or Android were when they were young and it's already got quite a large library of apps.

Overall it combines the desktop convenience with convenient apps and with the addition of Windows Blue 8.1 (or whatever it's called) it should be fixing a few of the complaints that people have been having with the OS; which is most notably, the lack of a start button on the desktop screen.