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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
I think the 2 major concerns and gripes I have with windows were covered nicely by sowrk and jammies. This half measure of adding a button but still the same ludicrous full screen start app is nonsense. It's jarring and terrible. And all these default apps that go full screen.. wtf. Who in their right minds at MS decided it was a good idea to go fullscreen like this for everything? What nonsense.
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Full screen apps make perfect sense on a tablet, I really enjoy using my ASUS Vivotab and try to spend as much time in the "new" environment as possible. Problem is that Microsoft tried to force a tablet designed OS into the desktop, which is such a ridiculously stupid idea
But yet they had foresight in other areas. If you install Outlook 2013 on a desktop, it operates almost exactly the same way that Outlook 2010 does. But if you install it on a Windows 8 tablet, Outlook 2013 rearranges itself for a smaller screen and becomes far more touch screen friendly. Why couldn't they apply this same design to all of their new apps? Make the new mail app operate like Outlook when it gets installed on a desktop and have it operate like it currently does when on a tablet. But that's another major issue with Microsoft, the left hand never seems to know what the right is doing (I could go on a major rant about the System Center 2012 suite and Windows Server 2012)