Is it just me or those Metro apps really sucks so bad?

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remixedcat

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Yeah, I don't understand the load times. Conventional apps load in a fraction of the time and have much greater functionality.

some are fast some arent.... the accuweather, the maps app and the Inrix Traffic app are the only ones that load fast that I have.

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Yes I realized the apps are just so bad. Those early adopters are going to be very disappointed. Even Android has much better apps than what Windows 8 has to offer. Even the built in apps I find to be kind of limiting and ugly. Overall I am not a fan of the design.

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Yeah, I don't understand the load times. Conventional apps load in a fraction of the time and have much greater functionality.

Most apps have to authenticate you to an external site. So it will take time no matter what. Also you can disable animations to load them up even faster as well.
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Yes I realized the apps are just so bad. Those early adopters are going to be very disappointed. Even Android has much better apps than what Windows 8 has to offer. Even the built in apps I find to be kind of limiting and ugly. Overall I am not a fan of the design.

Many early adopters, for whatever platform are always disappointed. The first months of the Google store or Apple Apps store seen their share of fart and other low quality apps....

Like anything, we will have to give it some time. Still, I'd be ****ed to be a Surface RT user and having only what's available to play with....

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Even Android has much better apps than what Windows 8 has to offer.

says the guy who compares an OS that's been around for 4 whole years VS an OS that's still a couple days away from official release. Give it some time, sheesh.

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Yes I realized the apps are just so bad. Those early adopters are going to be very disappointed. Even Android has much better apps than what Windows 8 has to offer. Even the built in apps I find to be kind of limiting and ugly. Overall I am not a fan of the design.

Android has tablet apps that are actually meant for tablets? :p

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I originally posted this in another thread but I guess it belongs here.

I just realised last night that you can't have a Windows 8 app open on both of your monitors at the same time.

Kind of a silly design choice IMO.

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I originally posted this in another thread but I guess it belongs here.

I just realised last night that you can't have a Windows 8 app open on both of your monitors at the same time.

Kind of a silly design choice IMO.

its a tablet OS, tablets only have one minitor

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It's not a tablet OS.

Then why do they say they want to make a UI across all devices. 2 of which are touch based devices, tablets and phones. Yes it works with a mouse and keyboard but over all the OS was built for touch, which is why the SAME OS is put on tablets and the same UI on phones.

So it's not a tablet OS? ... lets ask the question. If the iPad never happened and if Microsoft wasn't going enter the tablet Market, do you really think they would be using this same touch friendly UI? NOOOO!!!!! Thus Windows 8 is a Tablet OS.

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Then why do they say they want to make a UI across all devices. 2 of which are touch based devices, tablets and phones. Yes it works with a mouse and keyboard but over all the OS was built for touch, which is why the SAME OS is put on tablets and the same UI on phones.

So it's not a tablet OS? ... lets ask the question. If the iPad never happened and if Microsoft wasn't going enter the tablet Market, do you really think they would be using this same touch friendly UI? NOOOO!!!!! Thus Windows 8 is a Tablet OS.

It's an OS for all devices.

It works greats on tablets, WP8 which is not Windows 8 works great on phones, and W8 works great on a laptop or desktop with a launcher that's more effective and flexible than the old start menu.

As for your last statement, maybe maybe not, you can't say no or yes to it since we simply don't know.

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I get the impression this is working as designed and not something they just didn't have time to implement.

Unless you have another explanation for this limitation, or is this just not an approved usage scenario?

You mean multiple metro apps on different screens? I think it's a API limitation and not just something they left that way. They've put a good chunk of work into multimonitor support on the desktop side with Windows 8 but the start screen itself is limited to one screen, which means metro apps are limited to that one screen. I expect to see a future update that lets you at least expand the start screen to cover more screens and also move metro apps between screens as well.

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Yes, even though RT is handicapped to two visible apps, you can't have them both full screen. I think this is a trade-off that was made within RT, for tablets, so it seems to go against their design philosophy to add it down the road.

I'll wager the legacy desktop goes before RT supports multi-monitors.

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I don't see how that happens, the legacy desktop, and with it Win32, isn't going to go away anytime soon, even when we're talking Windows 9 and later. MS will either grow the WinRT APIs to match Win32 and support the same things desktop apps do or they just stay limited in which case the desktop will never go away because they'll need it and win32 for the bigger programs in use out there.

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To the OP. yes it is just you. I have found several great apps. All app stores have many apps that "suck". Just like anything else, the quality of the offerings span the entire spectrum. But there are gems to be found. :)

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I originally posted this in another thread but I guess it belongs here.

I just realised last night that you can't have a Windows 8 app open on both of your monitors at the same time.

Kind of a silly design choice IMO.

This is my main gripe about Windows 8, that I hope changes for Windows 9.

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