Windows 8 UI Changes

The mix of Metro UI and the old desktop has been the primary reason for people to not like windows 8. But they have made a lot if small tweaks to minimize the transition from Metro to old UI. That is the best part of Windows 8.1 to me.

I've been using Win 8 on the desktop for almost a year, and I have no need for a start button/menu/etc. The Metro (er, Modern UI) paradigm works as well with a mouse as it does with touch. The days of touchless screens are coming to an end; in the near future most laptops and desktop monitors will all be touch-ready. I find most of the FUD about the new paradigm is coming from people who haven't even used it. Use it for a month; you'll find it gets out of your way and lets you work just fine.

the lack of consistent UI experiences in windows was a thing that really bugged me and why I've never looked back after switching to MacOS

Windows 8 really broke the UI, to support tablets, and the OS has never recovered. :(

Invisible hotspots to bring up necessary dialogs, settings split into multiple different places that used to be collected in one place, flat UI elements, two conflicting interfaces (tablet UI on a mouse-based device? bleh). Windows 7 fits in with my experience on Windows going back over 20 years. Windows 8 throws that away for something I think is a contradictory mish-mash. Windows 10 doesn't completely clean up the mess, and it adds other things that I don't like.If Microsoft remov

Have you tried taking a step back in the desktop world? I got pissed of with all the shiny nonsense and started using Xfce. Simple, fast effective. Doesn't try to push new paradigms on me. And they keep the window buttons in the correct place.(I guess it was Windows 8.0 I got with a new laptop around a year ago. That was barely usable. It had all sorts of nonsense gestures set up, so half the time I would try to do something and it would switch me to the start menu / screen.)

The Windows 8 UI feels much more snappy (possibly due to less animation for windows etc) and the new start menu is more comprehensive than the old one.The metro apps, however, feel contrived and out of place, so I don't use those. Still wouldn't go back to Win7.

I've been using windows 8, and now 8.1, since public release.For me, windows 8 answers a few questions.1): What do we do when users want to use their fingers instead of a mouse to click buttons made for the (superior) accuracy of a mouse pointer?2): What do we do when monitor manufacturers sell 4k+ displays and windows applications aren't written to scale up that way?3): How do we sell users and developers on using desktop applications again (instead of web apps)?I think

Windows is a familiar interface for computers. Is there a good reason for not using a familiar user interface?

I like Windows 10 and have been using it regularly for a few months with no problems at all. I recently used an old laptop which still had Windows 8 installed (maybe 8.1?) and that device was nearly unusable. What a disaster. Constraining the entire Desktop to an app may have been the worst decision I have ever seen in a tech product.