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[ShadowAce]

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[SeekAndFind]

THE WINDOWS 8 METRO INTERFACE...


When you log in, the first thing you see is the Metro interface.

Metro is the tile based interface that represents the new face of Windows 8.

Remember that it is Metro, and not the desktop, that is the underlying platform, or OS, in this release. As such, the desktop is conceptually considered just another app.

Metro moves horizontally and you can move the tiles around by holding down on a tile until you see a check-mark and then moving it into place elsewhere on the screen.

The tiles also can be configured to continuously display live updates.

It takes a while to get used to the tiles but it's an original, glossy representation of Windows applications.

[KarlInOhio]

* Microsoft may also announce a tablet that runs the full version of Windows 8.

However, it will be slightly heaver than an iPad.

[dinodino]

What’s “Barnes & Noble?”

[steve8714]

When do we see the first patch?

[Edward Teach]

I think Windows 8 is going to be train wreck. I can’t see business adopting this without undergoing some painful reworking of procedures and training.

[longtermmemmory]

IOW this author is wasting our time with mere guessing.

[mkleesma]

Although I detest the Metro color scheme (hope they allow it to be customized), I am SLOWLY warming to the Metro App screen...but it’s been long coming - many a night spent cursing at the screen, trying to figure out how to open and close apps.
They really should place a tile on the Metro screen with a how-to video entitled WATCHMEFIRST, or something like that.

[EyeGuy]

Any predictions, based on past tech timelines, when Windows Phone 8 will be available at the consumer level?

I’m limping by with the electronic equivalent of two tin cans and a string right now....

[martin_fierro]

Here's Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft's Big Windows 8 Announcements This Week

[Buckeye McFrog]

Message to Microsoft: 80% of us are NOT habitual upgraders (witness the 19 inch TV with the rotary tuning dials which sat in my living room until guys like you forced my hand by taking television digital).

I would add “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, except this IS Microsoft we’re talking about.

[Secret Agent Man]

Start Barfing.

Bye Windows. I’ll stay with everything up to 7. That, and I don’t want to be forced to log in to email just to use an operating system. Screw that.

[kidd]

iZune

[JOAT]

From the look of it, I’m assuming ‘Metro’ refers to the metro-sexuals who will adopt this?

[Wizdum]

Service Pack 1 will be available in a couple of weeks to fix all the things that don’t work on release, and break the things that do work. /sarc