• psvrh
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    1 month ago

    People smack-talk Windows 8, but it brought a lot of under-the-hood improvements that are really nice to have. If it hadn’t been paired with the full-screen Start menu, I think it would have been remembered much more fondly.

    Hardcore Windows people do not like UI change is the message I think Microsoft needs to learn, and I say this as someone who actually really liked the Metro design language in 8. If they’d made something more like Win10, I suspect it would have gone down a little easier.

    Personally, I also liked 8 & 10’s Start menu. I hated the upteen-nested-folders-deep trainwreck that was the 95-to-7 era’s Start menu. I liked having tiles I could easily move & manage.