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Yes, I have switched to Windows 8 full-time, and it’s not because of the new Metro interface or charms. It’s not because of the ribbon or Internet Explorer 10. It’s really not because of anything you may expect. It’s much more simple than that. Here’s my top reasons I’m sticking with Windows 8 on my laptop. Metro is the least important reason to like it.
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Interesting. I wonder if the copy files feature automatically queues rather than thrashing the hard drive with parallel copies. That would be really useful.
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The startup / reboot time of Windows 8 on my Ultrabook is amazing, and the little things like the progress dialogs, task manager and the little UI enhancements are magic. It's Win7 evolved, and I love Win7.
But the Metro/Desktop dichotomy is a debable. If I could turn off Metro, or safely hide it, and if I could get back a start menu with quick search I'd be very, very happy. As it stands I find myself dropped into metro fairly often, so I browse IE, and then if I download something I get kicked back to the desktop. Or if I want, say, multiple tabs, I need to go back to the Desktop.
It's jarring, it's unnecessary, and we all see what they are trying to do, but please: don't do it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: but please: don't do it.
At least, not on desktops.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Good news, Startup/Reboot time is extremely important performance metric! "Life is too short to wait until win7 reboot"  , so win8 is highly welcomed in this regards. Another "nice-to-have' is long-anticipated stable version of IE10 with at least the same level of HTML5-compliance as found in other major web browsers (i.e. FF/Chrome). Third item on the list could be performance estimates regarding HDD/SSD operations. And one extra point of interest: its efficiency in regards to parallel algorithms running on multi-core CPU, in particular Parallel.For and Parallel.ForEach.
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