I may be mistaken, but I heard that there is a program that will revert the windows 8 UI to a windows 7 look.
Fake edit: apparently if you Google how to disable the Metro UI, lots of different ways come up. Any one try doing so?
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I may be mistaken, but I heard that there is a program that will revert the windows 8 UI to a windows 7 look.
Fake edit: apparently if you Google how to disable the Metro UI, lots of different ways come up. Any one try doing so?
My personal concern is that with the changes being bandied around that Microsoft are going to freeze users out of the ability to customise their experience with the exception of minor stuff and remove our ability to use the computer as we see fit.
I forsee a computer with fixed choices and apps that only Microsoft approves of and short of programming removes our ability to "fiddle with things".
I am not happy with the idea of a one size one interface one style fits all as That removes about 85% of what I now chose to use the computer for.
It is not unlike how cars are modified and improved or any other similar endeavor where an individual may attempt to change and acheive a new vision of an old idea.
After all that is in a sense where the computer came from...
New is great if it leaves our choices and options open ended. New is bad in my book if it cuts the populace off from that avenue of discovery and self expression.
The new underlying platform requires apps to be reconstructed or translated if you would...
I wonder if all the toys we play with now will be taken from us more in an effort to control the supply and demand than in the efforts of" Improvement for the sake of improvement"...
We live in an age of great possibilities in spite of the great problems that come "hand in baggage".
I would hate to see this age become the last age, where great ideas and exploration and assimilation of knowledge is freely allowed.
Just a thought.....
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That's a joke. I'm not fond of their music, but I don't outright hate them.
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Hey, looks what I found: The Metro hater's guide to customizing Windows 8 Consumer Preview by good old Ed Bott. I haven't read it yet so I don't know exactly how well this addresses our concerns, but I generally find his writing useful.
This is all bullshit. Third party hacks should absolutely never be required to achieve basic functionality out of an operating system. In fact, essentially ANY customization that's required for basic function that isn't default, even if it's built-in, is inexcusable. If I wanted an operating system that required me to spend a day fiddling with and tweaking the UI, I'd use a minimal Linux distro. But I don't. And even if I get the environment set up the way I like it on my computer, my sisters', parents', workplace, friends', cousins', and test environment computers are not going to have the same customizations.
3rd party tweaks? Fuck that. I thought it was all done in the OS.
Oh, all of his suggestions are done within the OS. But it hardly makes it better. He's just talking about basic customization. It doesn't include getting an actual start button, and it doesn't fix the problem of every computer you sit down at being a clusterfuck.
Yeah, that's probably going to be the last ditch effort if you are ever forced to use W8 on a personal device. However, as I said before, any third party "solutions" are hardly an acceptable excuse for metro.