_Emi_, please don't take it as a rant against Windows 8. I understand you love Windows 8 and that's great. I don't hate it, really. This OS doesn't "feel" right to me, so I took some time to think about how it could be improved. All personal opinions, and I am happy to hear yours.
Now, I definitely hope that I am the only one having these feelings about Windows 8 and that I am terribly wrong.
Again: voicing one's opinions is called "customer feedback". I mean in no way to diminish Microsoft people, and I know it is easy to type in a forum. I hope they read forums, too. I wrote my post in what I hope is a clear and organized reasoning. But sure I cannot decide anything. Let's call it food for thought, shall we?
(and thanks again for helping me with the "compatibility view settings" menu on IE 11)
I honestly didn't get your comment as a complain against Win8, but my reply was more to show you some people wont have the same view as you. that's why I didn't agree with you in simplicity but I would rather call it "familiarity" why? because you got used to taskbar, desktop, and a small app launcher called start menu. and even though you can make a fullscreen start screen, works just like start menu, still you don't feel it right.
while to me, when i first tried Windows 8 worked differently but I gave it a try and I liked, I felt like it was... hmm it was like desktop was more fun, and then I found there were better ways to access some options, like couple weeks ago I wanted to uninstall and app in Win7, and it was like... not nice to see myself going once again to click on start button, control panel and the find programs and features. where in win8 all I could do was right click in bottom left corner and easily I could access there.
I also wanted to show you how for a mouse person like me (I even use mouse when I design in 3dsmax or lightwave, I kinda find using shortcuts with 2 keys win+something or ctrl+something boring to use) and to me win8 feels really better for a mouse user, and I find it better than using touch, yeah touch feels nice and its the new cool thing, but mouse is faster.
I usually complained in Win7 when I was looking for a program I didn't remember in old start menu, and I was concentrated trying to find it and puff! I missclicked and I had to start over. sometimes I raged about it, because after clicking "all programs", everything was a mess. that's why Windows 8 start screen feels better to me, and then it makes it faster to me as a mouse user.
I still understand your problems why you still don't feel its the right OS. and that's why I gave you a lot of ways how I would avoid your problems, especially with 8.1.
like not using win8 apps, because you can always find desktop apps that are more complete or well are the same apps but with the option to be windowed (like metrotwit).
Only because you are using win8, it doesn't mean you have to use win8 apps. and you say "windowed" but if they are windowed, you would have to use charm bar for settings and printing and stuff. and by your comment I see you don't like using them. especially if you can get similar alternatives or better apps in desktop side.
also using only desktop apps, that means you will not have to deal with appswitcher, so you can deactivate it (I don't even use it, I usually close apps, which in 8.1 they are tombstoning so they aren't closed but not in appswitcher either), also you won't have to use charmbars, and you would only use them for customizing start screen for example (not needed but if you want). and then you can deactivate top right corner, since it would be hard to hit bottom right one accidentally.
you can always use the start screen as a desktop app launcher. that means, in 8.1 you can go directly to all apps, and launch everything from there easily.
and then you uninstall every win8 app, so you wont open a pdf for example and then find yourself in a fullscreen app. you download a 3rd party desktop pdf reader and automatically its associated to pdf, without doing the "open with".
so your a lot of swiping, and fullscreen apps, and charmbars can be avoided easily. you understand my "if I were you"s?
The only thing I really disagree with you at all, its calling Win8 UI "tablet UI" and that's the reason you should have an option to turn stuff off. yeah Win8 is touch optimized, bigger buttons and icons, and fullscreen etc etc. but it also works really good for (again) a mouse user like me, who doesn't even use much alt+tab! but only because it has some new elements it doesn't make it exactly tablet UI or not desktop optimized. I get you don't get used to somethings, but that's why said a lot of things to avoid them. obviously I would be biased to think positively but I don't see how you cant avoid some stuff you don't get used about win8.
oh and maybe I was a little harsh about it. about "customer feedback". but my point (to explain better) was that you like some people, make suggestions. and some can be good. but the truth is some suggestions wont be in Microsoft future vision, and some are there in MS plans papers, but some can take years to be coded and be available to users.Its not like Microsoft people will use windows 8 and never suggest an improvement.
so only because you cant see the future Microsoft wants, it doesn't mean they aren't seeing the same as you. but of course when a software has millions of millions of lines of code, its not easy task to improve everything at once.
and well, they had to build their vision somewhere (8.0) which wasn't perfect at all, but after that now they can start improving it (like win 8.1), and make it better and better.
But in the end, we are all humans. just like you like chocolate, I don't. (well I guess you do like most people haha
) and that means Microsoft has to take risks, and some customers wont accept them, if you cant get used to Windows 8, make windows 8 useful to you, even if you have to use 3rd party apps for that!
I know not everyone will be happy with Microsoft vision (just like I know there are some people in other sites who see "Microsoft" and they hate it automatically, and call Windows 8 UI hostile and Win8 fail even if it is selling good and try to find any excuse to troll in every win8 thread) BUT we are different, we can like and dislike opposite things, so I understand some users wont get used easily to Windows 8 and the changes it is happening. but you cant look at it and just don't try to adapt it for you.
for example I HATE with passion windows 7 search and now Windows 8.1 search. and what do I do? I don't have to use it so I ignore it and move on, if you close your mind to the negative things of windows 8, and don't find solutions... well you can always stay (sadly) in Win7 camp, or go to another OS.
This life is not so bad to waste it thinking so much about technology anyway, you just use whatever that make you happy, even if its win3.1 (which I loved using some months ago in a virtual machine).
BUT... BUT Like I explained in all my million words huge posts, you can always avoid a lot of win8 elements you don't like (well in my eyes you can) but of course if you still don't want it... well what can I say? there is always your familiar win7 UI or find an another alternative for you. or get a 3rd party app and pretend you aren't in win8.
again, Microsoft is having a new vision, and it wont be perfect for some people right now. but im sure it will be better in next years (since they are updating Windows faster). its not like you have to rush to like it (like you see I do). maybe you will take some years, or maybe you will never like it and move to other OS. I will not know. but (again) in my eyes, I don't see how you cant avoid some stuff you dont feel right about win8.
But maybe Im just blind and that's it
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