Re: Windows 10
I'll wait for Windows 10 to become final. One reason being that I am happy enough with Windows 8.1. It works well for me on my Desktop computer using a keyboard and mouse. Just a diversion from Windows 10 but it is all perhaps relevant to the progression towards it:
I prefer to use a block of organised tiles on the Start Screen as shortcuts for opening programs and the only inconvenience I've found has been this 'Start-Screen/Desktop' dual interface.
It's possible to boot to the Start Screen and close Windows Apps to it but no option is given to close every installed program to it. When a non-Windows 8 App is closed, the Desktop shows. I'd like it so that when
any program closes, the Start Screen shows by default. Operate entirely from the tiled Start Screen in other words.
I think it is perhaps not the tiles per se that has made Windows 8 difficult to accept but partly the fact it is necessary to switch between the two Desktops.
Start8, Classic Shell and similar fixes this by hiding the Start Screen. Something that has made using Window 8 more acceptable for many. Nobody ever made a product for hiding the conventional Desktop though. Anyway, my feeling is that if Microsoft had gone completely tiled, I'd have preferred that to having to be forever diving between the Start Screen and the Desktop.
Windows 10 looks like it addresses the dual interface approach by merging the tiled Start Screen and the conventional Desktop. This might keep us all happy depending on how customisable it turns out to be.
Something maybe worth a mention. I read that Microsoft want to gather all the information they can about how the Windows 10 Technical Preview is behaving. As such, they are automatically monitoring usage to a great degree. Information is being fed back to Microsoft.
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