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CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI Disclaimer: I
work for microsoft as a UI/UX designer/prototyper, primarily on
Windows's "Metro" interface, so I'm probably HIGHLY biased in
this area. But I may still be able to shed some light on this.
I've been using Win8 for about 8 or 9 months now. Originally, I
was in the same boat as CowboyNeal - I loathed the new start
menu. It felt wonky to scroll through and find my programs.
After using it for a while though, I highly prefer it to the old
start menu. The start menu on Windows 7 was great for mouse
navigation - short traversals to each entity meant that you
could get through them quickly with a mouse. Where it failed
though was in keyboard driven execution. Win 7's keyboard
launching capabilities absolutely sucked. I wrote up a pretty
technical paper on its shortcomings, one specific example was
heirarchy of information in search: while trying to launch Dota
2 in windows 7, I pressed the win