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Is there anyway to Change the Logon Screen ?, i mean not the Look Screen that can be customized from Control Panel App.
Success is the ability to go from vista failure to metro-ui failure without losing your windows enthusiasm. Microsoft revealed when we can expect the Windows Store for Windows 8, and how much you can expect apps to cost. Starting in late February, i hope ms submit apps for $1.49 to all new Windows 8 builds >8200.0 There's also a 100-0 split the Beta 8 app.
FrugalTech is indeed looking at things from the corporate/enterprise POV - however, he is looking at things from a *traditionalist* POV. However, he is also tightly tied to that traditionalist POV; if Windows 8 succeeds even a little, he gets egg on his face. There are some things he is, in fact, largely right about. 1. Windows 8 (like Windows Vista, to be honest) is mostly consumer-focussed; there were some things in Vista for corporate and enterprise customers, but Vista, by and large, was for consumers. Windows 8 is also largely comsumer-targeted, but for different reasons than Vista. The big new-hardware market for Windows 8 will be largely tablet/slate formfactors - not many of those in the corporate/enterprise market. 2. Hardware purchasing will be largely flat in the corporate/enterprise space. The mantra has been *do more with less* in that space - Windows 8 is not designed to challenge that. 3. Metro (as a UI) is a superset, not a subset, of the Windows 7 of today. Traditional applications still work (in fact, every traditional application, except for specific utilities, that I use in Windows 7, works just fine in the WDP). That is something that FrugalTech admits to having never tested - basically, he's spouting FEAR. 4. Some utilities will be orphaned by Windows 8 - regardless of what user interface the user chooses. Two rather large sets of orphans will be simple disk-image burning/mounting utilities (such as my old favorites, ImgBurn and VirtualCloneDrive). Both are done in by improvements in the core of Windows as far as both are dealt with. There are doubtless othe UI-irrelevant changes within Windows 8 as well - that neither I or FrugalTech are familiar with. One simple utility that I would wager that FrugalTech *is* familiar with (Defraggler) is in serious trouble due to the replacement for Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 - Disk Optimizer. Like Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 (and the manual disk-defragmentation utility that has been included with Windows NT from the beginning), it was created by Diskeeper Corporation - who makes the commercial application Diskeeper Pro Premier - which remains the standard in workstation/desktop NTFS optimization - until Disk Optimizer came along. Disk Optimizer is better - far better - than either Disk Defragmenter or even Diskeeper Pro Premier's manual mode. (I've been using, and recommending, Diskeeper for the past twelve years - since Windows 2000 Professional; to find a free product that trumps it enough for me to actually say so certainly does ME no favors. Yet Disk Optimizer can actually *replace* Diskeeper Pro Premier for most users; primarily because it offers one feature that even Pro Premier doesn't have - multi-pass no-reboot defragmentation. That means that replacing Windows 7 clients that use Pro Premier with Windows 8 clients can actually save corporate and enterprise customers (let alone SMBs) *money*. What else is in Windows 8 that can save money for business customers?)
How does Metro interfere with running traditional applications? I'd really like to get an answer to that one - as I've been running nothing BUT traditional applications in the WDP (either in VMs or my dual-boot bare-metal install). Is the issue traditional applications - or Metro's deliberate lack of of the Start menu - that is the real interference factor? I don't run the WDP on a touch-enabled tablet, slate, or portable - but a very traditional keyboard-and-mouse desktop. Traditional applications work fine. Games work fine. Even most utilities (that haven't been rendered moot) work fine. So I really don't see how Metro can break traditional applications.
@ jayblok Thanks for posting that. The guy's said pretty much exactly what I did about how the Metro interface is useless for businesses as they need real applications and not mini "apps". @ PGHammer Although you're asking CODY, Metro interferes with traditional applications because it takes over the experience some of us prefer or require. We don't want to be running a third party messenger client and get no alerts about things because Metro is using the whole screen to display some information a desktop widget could in Windows 7. In your argument you're saying that all applications work fine, but most of them applications run in the classic desktop environment and not Metro. So what's the advantage of Metro if each time you need to switch to a different application you must have your screen filled up? Why would I want that when I can access it from my taskbar, desktop or tap the windows key and start typing the application name? Metro is NOT faster in terms of speed, it simply makes it faster for them who are new to PC's to learn. I vision most people liking Metro right now just because it's the new thing to have and it's different, but I predict that when most people have it they're going to disable it after a few months because they never use it. And I'm on about non-touchscreen monitors or laptops. Why do some people still use XP or an older version of Ubuntu when there's new versions out there? Because the OS that they're using already does everything they need and for many Windows 7 does exactly that. Even with the tweaks Windows 8 offers Windows 7 can still compete by using a range of different software which, in some cases, will make things better than it is on Windows 8. So in my opinion if you don't like Metro or what they've done to the aero theme then there's not a single reason to use Windows 8. Why will businesses disable Metro? Facebook, twitter, the market etc. They don't want people having a chat or buying new fancy apps, they want you to work!