Quick Impressions of Windows 8 Pro RTM

[Nazmus Shakib Khandaker]

Did you say you were a Windows 8 hater initially?

[grayscale]

Tiny annoyance after spending some time with Metro apps: winkey is too close to 'Z' key that it's not too comfy using it to display the app bar. XD

[Gersson]

Search blows. Having to select a category to get your result rather than having them all show up unified, is horrendous. This is the ONLY thing I do miss from the Start Menu.

Yep; amazing feature introduced with Vista but now it's gone :(

[MorganX]

It is becoming quite apparent that as you find more Modern app you actually want to use, the Start Page will quickly become a mess. This is where the old Start Menu excelled. Metro was never designed to manage long lists.

Still pleased with Windows 8, but it's flaws cannot be denied.

[BajiRav]

It is becoming quite apparent that as you find more Modern app you actually want to use, the Start Page will quickly become a mess. This is where the old Start Menu excelled. Metro was never designed to manage long lists.

Still pleased with Windows 8, but it's flaws cannot be denied.

It needs the 3-size tile option that Windows Phone 8 is getting. :/ It's a giant waste for apps without live tiles (IE or Store for example) and not to mention desktop apps.

[.Neo]

It needs the 3-size tile option that Windows Phone 8 is getting. :/

They need to fire the Windows team and replace them with the Windows Phone team, period. Apparently they do know how things are done right.

[MorganX]

It's hard to say how this will go. Random Metro App and Store quitting I would say given this is RTM code is at a disastrous level given how many PCs will have it Day 1. Of course a day 1 patch can fix things if MS is actually paying attention. The Store is an app, the Xbox stuff is an app, so that can be fixed with an upgrade from the store to the app. But this is quite surprising for RTM, yes, it's officially not available, still. Hopefully it's the apps and backend.

The fact that Pinball FX2 was in as early as CP and store/purchasing is a mess is not a good sign either. There's a Beta feel to all that. Funny thing is, Desktop environment is solid as a rock! How ironic.

Still recommend upgrading outside of the enterprise right away, just worrisome. And the UX of OneNote MX is absolutely awesome and indicative of what may come. Unfortunately it won't print and is somewhat of a worthless app except on tablets IMO.

[PGHammer]

The two aren't even comparable. If anything, Metro Mail is like the Mail.app in iOS. I could probably get on board with that comparison.

I was saying that *all three* (Modern Mail in 8, Mail.app in OS X, and the original Windows 9x Inbox) are very basic e-mail clients - designed to *tide you over* until you install - or find - a more suitable client for your needs. The Inbox in 9x and Mail.app support POP3 (which was the long-time default for ISPs) (Mail.app goes beyond that to support IMAP - big in the educational community). Modern Mail - like Windows 9x' Inbox - does support Exchange and Exchange ActiveSync natively; however, this will be of more immediate use in enterprises.