Being in the business for years now I can say that Metro is the ugliest UI layer I have every seen. I keep seeing all these phone/web apps that are going to the plain, flat back and white as well, just plain ugly.
Yowser! The Metro/whatever stuff was integrated so badly, am not surprised M$ is walking it back. It was an interface only a child could love. There are no adults up at M$ anymore, and it shows in their shoddy products and documentation.
Thanks for the info.
I presume this implies a full-screen app, with no window frame border possible, & no ability to resize it to something smaller that full-screen - like others of its ilk. In short, dumb as dirt & horribly annoying on a non-hand-held device. I’d ditch it too. In fact, I wouldn’t have wasted money on it in the first place. Better a more capable app that can be resized as desired.
Yeah because people really wanted to use a browser that wasnt available to download in the Windows Store, and from all accounts, was buggy as hell.
But the best way to sweep that under the rug is to just blame Windows 8. There are plenty of people whose job it is to have a meltdown over anything Win8 that will rush in and cover for you.
I don’t use any metro apps myself so I can see them making this decision.
Unfortunately, my computer is Windows 8.1 and I am using FF latest version BUT I have had so many pop up ads using FF even though I have it set up to not get these. It is soooo annoying.
When I used IE version 11, I don’t get these pop-ups.
With Microsoft discontinuing support of XP and XP being limited to Direct X 9.0 (which causes graphic driver glitches for modern cards), I have migrated my XP machines to Win 7 64-bit Pro and couldn’t be happier. On top of that I can run XP as a virtual machine if I need older apps that are incompatible with Win 7. I have ran several of these machines for a few years to a few months and have yet to see a BSOD.
Simply follow the rule of getting every other operating system from Microsoft and you will be good. After the disaster of Windows ME we got XP, after VISTA we got 7, after 8 we will get something decent. Why these guys follow this pattern and can’t seem to learn from their own history would make for an interesting case study for a business class.
What’s the funding model for Mozilla?
My recurring observation re OSS is that people will do free work insofar as it’s rewarding somehow, but there’s always a significant percentage of work which nobody wants to do (boring, hard, few users, no appreciation) without money. Gotta wonder if that’s a big part of pulling FF development on Metro: development for that platform just isn’t rewarding enough without $$$, so nobody wants to build anything interesting enough for anyone else to want to use?
First thing I do when I log in is blow by that silly interface and go right to my trusty old desktop anyway.
Get over it. You sound like a bunch of luddites. It’s not for everyone just yet but I find it very useful in the tablet format and on a desktop touch tech monitor. The current presentation of tiles isn’t always the prettiest but pretty is for your car and trophy wife, not business use. Mozilla can pull their metro app, it wasn’t done that well anyway. I can always go to the desktop and use a regular FF icon, if I find a need to use FF. The metro look will morph into something more appealing for those who care about looks over usability (apple users) and after a while no one will question it anymore.
I heard the same themes and bitching when PCs went from DOS to Windows. Even today there are some I work with who believe that development and using apps is best done completely from the DOS prompt.
METRO is good for touch devices but is useless on laptops and computers. My Windows 8.1 laptop has a program I installed that bypasses METRO TILES.....I never see them or want them. With this installed program I get the Windows desktop and start button back
I have never once used a METRO app
I am using a Windows phone now. I prefer the UI to the iPhone and Android. (The UI also works great on a touch screen laptop.) One-handed use is actually possible, and the “pin” system is great. Additionally, a Nokia Windows phone is inexpensive.
It doesn’t have a million apps, but I only use a handful anyway.