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Originally Posted by Skybird
Yes, Bing Maps works nice as well. Nice photo coverage from 90°-rotating birds view.
What I just don'T understand is this serious andvery typical Microsoft issue of making the text bars and cosmetic stuff so hilariously big and wide and the default map screen so small, like in their softwares like office and word nd windows they make selection screens and option boxes as small as possible so that unnecessary sliders are needed to scroll text lines. Microsoft designers know not much about visual working ergonomy, they are a total fail in that regard. Their new menu ideology - ribbon menues or however they are called - also is a fail in my book. It sends people seeking for the options they want time and again.
It seems it becomes even worse with the Metro interface. They even rip out code from W8 that would allow people to find workarounds to reinstall a start-button or to directly boot to the familiar desktop bypassing Metro on booting. In other words they do not try to deliver what the customers want - they want to force customers to accept what they want to enforce on them. I did not like that with Apple and so never will buy Apple. I do not support Microsoft over this as well. Will stay with W7 for years to come, and if then I cannot chnage to an OS that is more what I want and less than what they want, I will finally make the great leap towards Linux or something like that. I hope that this tablet-W8-hype is exploding right into their faces. Tablets probably can be good supplements to your primary working or PC station that you use for real work, or gaming, but they cannot replace them, like Microsoft wants to make the world believe. And I think they will need to learn that the hard way - once again (history shows they are immune to learning this lesson).
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I actually like it to be honest.
Metro is content first, make the features you use 90% of the time big, and noticeable (pretty much how ribbon works), and make the other 10% available within one swipe or click.
I much prefer metro over s60. I used to be a Symbian die-hard. I put my Nokia N8 next to my LG Quantum. Metro just allows me to do the same things with less clicks. I also prefer metro over aero on my HTPC, big, easy to click targets allows me to stay on my couch, and not move up in front of my tv.
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