Then new windows 8 interface looks cool until you actually use it on a Laptop. For people who constantly switch back and forth from various programs, web, email, etc the new interface gets in the way. A PC is not a tablet or smart phone and should have its own interface.
The sensitivity of the laptop touch pads can drive one batty when WIN8 keeps popping up open apps running in the background. I don’t want a program or app popping up unless I tell it to. The location of hot spots on the touch pad also coincides with the CLOSE X or other items you may have in your programs. Making the touch pad larger on laptops only compounds the problem since one has to put ones hands on either side of it to use the keyboard, but it constantly reads the heat or pressure from my palms when I reach for numbers. Turning Metro off requires a bit of registry change or 3rd party software.
Update – In order to maximize use of my Adobe Cloud subscription I upgraded the old desktop running Vista to WIN8 (no Win7 available). To use any of the MS apps you have to sign up for a MS account which is easy enough. I used my personal email from my domain esearing.com. Then they ask you to verify your email in order to use the account. The verification email never comes. So I requested resend (about a thousand times), but it never came. I searched the web and found hundreds of others in the same situation with no resolution. I finally closed the MS account and opened a new one with a GMAIL account. Low and behold it worked. You also have the option to open a hotmail or @live.com account when you register. But nowhere in their documentation do they mention you can not use your standard domain based email. Not even their help forums! One more way MS has screwed up.
I hate to say it, but Microsoft is leading me to buy an Apple product for my next laptop and home PC. Apple is more expensive but it offers a better user experience, especially those of us who actually use a computer for design or productivity.
Still H8Win8
