Thread: 2.0 in Windows 8

I'll take the performance gains made in windows 8 when they end up in windows 9, thanks. Why would I want an interface designed for a touch screen when I don't have a touch screen? You're right, I don't. Windows 7 works perfectly for me. I don't upgrade for the sake of upgrading, there has to be significant weight to the argument, minor performance increases don't cut it for me. Minor performance increase while hindering my workflow? no thanks!

I really, honestly tried to get used to win8. In the end, I couldn't find any noticeable performance increases everyone has been praising which would justify upgrading from win7. Boot time difference was about 2 seconds with my SSD, not really noticeable.

The major issue of win8 is not the modernUI by itself, it's the fact they're forcing it onto hardware that doesn't support it. ModernUI is great for tablets/smartphones, but it's useless for touch-less devices. Their retarded reasoning of forcing Metro on desktop users being a compromise is what breaks it. Even if you only work on the "legacy" desktop, you're constantly faced with Metro dialogues. Ever tried to put your taskbar to the left side of the screen? Try clicking on network connections and see where the metro menu opens...

The whole experience is way too fragmented. If they went for desktop being default with metro apps running on it, that would have been the real compromise.

Another thing is that if you're still use some legacy software (FFXI/windower, for example), you will run into troubles with administrator rights. In win7, you could just turn UAC off or start it as admin... now what win8 does is, if you turn it off, it's not really off, so the program thinks it has admin rights but it doesn't -> crash. There is a registry setting that shuts UAC off for good, but doing this will kill ALL metro apps (this includes the metro control panel btw).

All in all, win8 is another experiment just like vista was. Win9 won't make Metro go away, but maybe they will at least fix the overall fragmentation of the two user interfaces so that they work together in a less jarring way. The new improvements to windows explorer/task manager etc are nice, but not something you can't add to win7 via 3rd party plugins. As such, I don't see a reason to upgrade from win7 just yet.