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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Rubbish. The only reason it takes longer is because you're not used to it. Remember when the new Start Menu came out in Windows XP? It used to frustrate me to no end the number of IT staff who would set all their servers to default to that stupid classic Start Menu from the Win9x days.
As for it being 'jarring' for the user, lolwut. Any change to an interface that a non-power user is subjected to will be jarring. Again, see Start Menu change from Windows 2000 -> Windows XP.
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On my home computer, my start screen fills my monitor - on a 2 month old clean install. On my work PC, the start screen would fill my monitor 3 times over. On a touch screen, swiping over is trivial, but without it complicates things drastically. I need to either arrow key to scroll over, or click the screen to bring up the scroll bar and then use the scroll bar with my mouse. If my mouse(and I know some do) had a side scroll feature, I could see it being a lot easier though.
It would be different if it nicely supported my 2 monitor setup, but during the week before I got Start8, I could not figure it out. Additionally, finding the corner of your monitor to bring your charms out is exponentially harder with 2 monitors than one.
Now, I do agree that you could customize your start menu so that the programs you use are all clustered on the first screen, in nice groups related to their use, but that doubles the effort that everyone uses to set up your desktop/taskbar icons because you have to do it for both UIs. Plus, it makes finding those lesser used programs harder for the typical user.
I think, for me, the problems are this:
- There are 2 UIs, and things behave differently between them
- Without a touch screen, the Metro UI, even though it is possible, it is not quite as efficient to use.
edit: One other thing that I just realized, as someone who logs in remotely using various software to many types of machines, that using the Windows 8/Server 2012 interface becomes more difficult in almost all of those instances.