Windows 8 Compatibility

[Soukyuu]

Win8 made the mistake of forcing the tablet UI on a desktop system. They should have made Metro run as a Desktop application, not vice versa. And since ARM can't run windows programs anyway, there would be no mixup.

Metro is good on a touchscreen, but for mice, it sucks. I tried both the consumer and the release preview and it's a complete mess of metro intruding on aero and vice versa, like half of the control panel still being aero.

Oh and it refuses to see my wlan network while showing others :P

I did like the improvements they did to the system overall and windows explorer, less 3rd party application needed. But that's still not worth coping with the Metro UI. I hope win9 will have a split between desktop and tablet, else I guess I'll stick with win7 forever.

As for Aero hogging resources, that was true for vista, WDDM1.1 stops rendering aero once your application switches to fullscreen. And by fullscreen, I mean true fullscreen (exclusive mode), not that "borderless window" most people seem to use to stop ffxiv from crashing.