http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/29855-microsoft-knows-you-are-adapting-to-windows-8


My comments are all regarding Win8 on a desktop.  Win8 on a tablet or other device with a touchscreen is compelling and many of these issues don't apply on those devices.

Wonder if their data shows how many times the charm bar pops out but is never activated indicating it keeps popping out accidentally annoying the user?

Or the sudden increase in the use of desktop shortcuts or pinned applications to the taskbar to avoid the Metro interface.  How about the sudden drop in use of the Start/Metro from statistics collected from win7?

Maybe the times a metro application is attempted to be dragged to a second monitor so the user could use two at the same time, only realizing you can't have two metro apps side by side, each on their own monitor?

Possibly their stats show that stupid pop-up saying there are other apps that can open the file you just opened, and the message randomly pops up and there's no immediate way to get rid of it permanently?

Then there's the users typing in the metro interface to search for things like "windows update" and it says "no apps match your search" and the metro interface then being closed, indicating the user didn't see the non-obvious "settings" area on the right which forces the user to restrict their search between apps, settings, and files.

Users search in the metro area for their old beloved games like solitaire or spider which were removed from win8, forcing you to "purchase" the free ad-sponsored versions from the MS store, forcing you to give away more of your personal information to MS, only to get a cheesy version of the old games that take up the whole screen and kill any form of multi-tasking.

Do the stats also show how long it takes for the metro interface to be launched, and then an app actually opened?  I've arranged the metro interface into a list of common applications and I'm trying to use it that way to force myself to try it out as MS intended.  But some of the live-tiles are actually more annoying than useful.  Since they are designed to be used to launch an application, the fact that they keep changing their icon, means there is nothing I can glance at immediate based on a specific color or picture, so I have to more rely on trying to find the shortcut by general location of where I last left it.

So yeah, I think people are adjusting to Win8.  It's basically Win7 with the crappy Metro interface tossed on top.  Anyone can get used to pretty much anything.  Since I'm running SSD primary disk on a beefy CPU with gobs of memory, i really don't see the speed benefits Win8 has, so I'm left with a $40 OS that is still too expensive.  It literally didn't give anything new I wanted, took away things I used to like in Win7, and then toss in ad-supported versions of things that used to be built into win7.  Not seeing the love.

Has anyone found anything in Win8 that is "gotta have it?"  The only thing I've found that is genuinely better from win7 is the taskbar.

I have been waiting for feedback like this. Very helpful, thank you. I think I am going to stick with 7 for now.