Run VISTA now on any decent piece of hardware say with an I5 or I7 processor and its performance is perfectly OK especially if you are using SSD's.
That's true, but now with Windows 8 that is not the problem, even better, Windows 8 is looking faster than Windows 7 using lower system specs... trully, that cannot be taken as an argument, just because the real concern is not the speed of the OS but its mode to handle tools, as the "Metro-now-changing-name" interface...
Vista had serious troubles with performance because needed serious upgrades in hardware (at least with many systems happened) and the worst part, Microsoft claimed it's OS was designed to run in at least 512 MB or RAM, which was NOT true, thus leading to lots of speed issues because the OS was having to acces paging file every single moment, while using 1 GB or more, solved that problem (partially, taking into account that proccesors and VGA's were not ready...)
...whatever the detractors of W8 say it CAN (and I say CAN -- because if you start messing around with Metro while attempting to do traditional desktop like work your productivity will nose dive)...
Which, in terms of usefullness, defeats the entire purpose of using a new interface, Metro then is just a piece of plaything that gives nothing to computing...
When Windows 95 came out, everyone was freaked out because of the creation of the Start Menu and Taskbar, but the idea was usefull and added productivity, that was assimilated really fast (as I can remember so far...)
Metro should have the same fate, but it is not like that... it's slow, dumb and definetely not usefull, in tablets may be good, but is desktops is just a disaster to click everything to get the same result as with just hovering the mouse over something. And I suspect you got the same issue as well XD.
Now I HATE the Metro or whatever they call it GUI -- but it's relatively simple to avoid using it by installing a small FREE 3rd party app.
People often say they shouldn't have to use 3rd party apps for this sort of stuff -- but people ALWAYS use 3rd party apps -- nobody complains for example when installing some rubbish 3rd party AV software (shouldn't SECURITY itself be a priority to be handled WITHIN THE OS itself anyway) or buying a sensible backup and restore program - and just about everybody I know uses VLC for playing DVD movies and Winamp or equivalent for music needs.
I tend to agree that the user should at install time be given the option of Full desktop including metro, Metro only (if on a phone / tablet or other mobile device that might be developed in the future) or Desktop only without metro for people wanting to use laptops etc in the classic manner.
I suspect that the "Classic Shell" 3rd party app will be exceedingly popular if W8 really does hit the masses...
...Bye Bye Metro. !!!
Cheers
jimbo
This is a nice solution, except that, using VCL or ESET doesn't harm (or they will likely not) your system, while stuff like classic shell, being a harmless system modifier, may cause conflicts with some stuff someday, but this is like gambling, may happen, may not.
The problem is that you need now to install a 3rd party program to be productive, instead of having a real OS that can improve efficiency at work and doesn't look like you are playing with big cellphone screen...
I can agree with you in your statements, but MS need to understand that this whole madness of Metro will not work on PC's, computers ARE NOT smartphones or tablets, that's why, whatever it happens, we will still need them, because a tablet will never replace the way you can create a book, edit drawings or create digital art or even gaming. Those devices work only to stay connected and to receive or send information, not to do real stuff. Windows 8 need to separate interfaces or it will fail missearably along PC users... And believe it or not, is the worst thing for an OS... Vista survived little just because the problem only was hardware issues and speed, but here, the UI itself is the problem, this is worse...
So, I agree with the last phrase: Bye Bye Metro!!!
