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Originally posted by callum
am i the only one who thinks the UI of the tiles looks really tacky and gross? i can understand the appeal of something that simplistic for tablets and touch-screen devices but as a fully-fledged OS? it seems super super basic to me.
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The UI you're talking about is called Metro, and you can just click the "Desktop" tile or click the bottom left corner to flip to the desktop you're used to from Windows Vista/7
. Super simple - but so far they've been flaunting Metro around, so its not surprising people don't know about that. That's why I'm happy they've been making video tutorials. Here's a pic (the mouse is on the far right side of the screen, so that black panel is showing, so pretend that's not there to get a better idea. The time widget also doesn't need to be there):
You don't have to use Metro at all if you don't want to - you can entirely disable it, and stick to the desktop setup that you're used to.
It's only as ugly as you want it to be - this is not a Mac operating system. You can completely change the colours of the tiles to make it suit your own tastes if you want to, and change the wallpaper and whatnot. The tiles are "live" so they're continually updating by themselves, its just like having a widget - except all apps will match in this case, and won't fit together all wonky. Surface tablets, Xbox Live and Windows phone 8 will have the same set up - so once you're signed in, across all your devices, your home screens will be the same [if you want them to be]. Sooo if you download Photoshop for PC... you can also use it on your tablet. Consider: do people do that on their iPad? You can view images, but you can't photoshop them. It's pretty huge...
Here's some examples of the customization
(note: the system isn't out yet [technically] so there's not many examples YET. Some really creative people need to start playing with this to give you a better idea of how much you can customize it...)
You should go into politics.
