What do you want from Windows 8 RTM?

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1. I want the desktop to be more metrofied

2. Folders for Metro Apps

3. Run metro apps in a window on the desktop

1. Not possible for Windows 8. The desktop will remain similar to Windows 7 to help keep training costs down.

2. These aren't really needed. The Start Screen's capability to group tiles should suffice.

3. Maybe have a WinRT "desktop", where WinRT apps can interact with each other. But Metro apps shouldn't be on the 9x desktop.

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I'd like it if the metro apps could talk to the desktop ones. To maintain security they could try to use SkyDrive so an app could write to an AppData folder on SkyDrive that is shared by the desktop application.

Also, better favorite management. As it stands you have to pin your favorites to the home screen. It would be nice if they had an about:favorites page that would show a hierarchal list.

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Greetings! I believe every aspect of Windows 8 is absolutely stunning! However, it does require minute bug fixes and enhancements to improve the overall OS. The enhancements have been listed on this site numerous times and would be redundant to state them again.

On another note, this is a great site! I've been getting all my Windows 8 news here for the past 5 months and decided to join just the other day. Here goes my first post!

--Terra

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I would like all of the system icons (including those in Windows Explorer) to be white, just like the icons on the tiles in the Metro experience. I doubt we'll see this, though. Further, I still don't think I like the mismatch of colours on the Start Screen (the different tiles), so perhaps some refinements regarding that would be good, if possible. Unless it's just a case of me needing to get used to how all of the different tiles look together :p

Greetings! I believe every aspect of Windows 8 is absolutely stunning! However, it does require minute bug fixes and enhancements to improve the overall OS. The enhancements have been listed on this site numerous times and would be redundant to state them again.

On another note, this is a great site! I've been getting all my Windows 8 news here for the past 5 months and decided to join just the other day. Here goes my first post!

--Terra

Welcome to Neowin :) That's a great first post, if I do say so myself :p

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My main gripe is the close gesture for Metro apps, it's not exactly...smooth...to execute with a mouse, but I supposed I can get used to it. It is downright horrid on a touchpad (on my eeePC) With this touchpad driver bizzo it would be cool if you could do CTRL+touchscreen gesture on the touchpad.

I'm liking that they have finally changed the mouse cursors in the RP. Even warming to a few Metro Apps (Wikipedia/Sports). The Release Preview both feels and looks fantastic. I'm still hoping for a higher quality to included Metro apps, and 3rd party apps, come RTM.

EDIT: What about a Metro Windows Explorer Equivalent? (haven't seen any file management in WinRT demos... surely they will sort that out?)

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I would like all of the system icons (including those in Windows Explorer) to be white, just like the icons on the tiles in the Metro experience. I doubt we'll see this, though. Further, I still don't think I like the mismatch of colours on the Start Screen (the different tiles), so perhaps some refinements regarding that would be good, if possible. Unless it's just a case of me needing to get used to how all of the different tiles look together :p

Welcome to Neowin :) That's a great first post, if I do say so myself :p

Thank you for the warm welcome Calum! I also strongly agree with you regarding the icons. No worries, though Microsoft promised new refined icons din't they?

EDIT: What about a Metro Windows Explorer Equivalent? (haven't seen any file management in WinRT demos... surely they will sort that out?)

Yes! Why isn't there a Metro file manager? Quite odd to tell you the truth.

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For Microsoft to realise that Metro isn't the be all and end all thus as a result actually lay out a long term road map that addresses the traditional desktop that'll hopefully including the ability to develop traditional applications using WinRT/XAML to replace win32 in the long run. The problem I have with Windows 8 isn't anything necessarily what exists today but what their roadmap is going forward - if we know what the road map is then you can step back and realise that this release is but one in a many steps towards some sort of end goal thus the jarring effect of win32/Metro can be overlooked in favour of the long term vision.

Yes! Why isn't there a Metro file manager? Quite odd to tell you the truth.

In the Metro world you don't manage the files, the operating system does hence the reason why there is no file management tools that are available.

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In the Metro world you don't manage the files, the operating system does hence the reason why there is no file management tools that are available.

I think I can finally see why folders are on the way out - they're a departure from the reality that all of our files are just ones and zeroes, contiguously or otherwise spread out on spinning platters (SSD-folk excluded, of course). The hierarchical organization made sense back when search and indexing was primitive and underdeveloped, like back when the Web was AOL, Yahoo, and Altavista. I still remember Yahoo Groups, or something like that, where sites were organized hierarchically, and you'd browse to a site like Neowin by clicking on some sequence of links like "Communities > Forums > Technology."

Then actual searching came along, and at least search engines haven't been the same since, but the Desktop has kinda lagged behind. It is a little surprising if you think about it - a lot of people have completely different workflows for finding "bieber remix.mp3" online as opposed to finding "technical documentation 14662.docx" on their own computer - especially people from the days of XP, when hierarchical organization was still more or less the only way to go about anything locally. Now, file content can be indexed, and isn't that really what is important? It isn't the name or the place that we saved something that is actually relevant when we're looking for it. We want the content, and search - if powerful enough - eliminates the need for this fantastical overhead of where some file exists on our spinning platters.

Oh, as far as Windows 8 goes, I'd like for them to tone down the auto-Aero colorization, or make cool colors the dominant determinant of the window frame color. I'd like for them to continue working on performance. I think this issue is especially noticable since 8 is shipping with some apps, while Windows 7 shipped with almost nothing but the barebones OS. They should continue to work to improve the Music, Mail (IMAP!), Videos, and Photos apps.

I still think that they should include a quick and easy editing pane that allows users to set their own Start Screen background - simply apply a blur and desaturate in the appropriate areas - should be enough to fix most images. Of course, they need to include a feature that slaps the user should they still manage to create something ugly.

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I would the desktop as start up and option to turn off metro and go to classic and of course the start menu to the left side, not the right side. Who ever come up with these concepts were probably on some type of drugs. With all these changes are not brought with innovation, the only innovation I keep hearing about is the performance under the hood. Just cause you have people saying its okay you will adapt to turning off your computer in 4 steps versus the 2 steps on Windows 7. Come on you are kidding with that darn Windows 8 tutorial? Its confusing enough.

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1. I would have loved the boot animation dots ported to cursors. Probably someone from deviantart can come up with that.

2. Ability to choose a custom tile for those horrid non-metro apps

3. Bigger size text in desktop mode to match the size used in metro mode. (Not that pathetic DPI scaling nonsense)

4. New default font with better cleartype.

5. The black charms bar should not overlap taskbar.

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