Well, you say Windows 10 gets rid of Metro but not really. Because I see square windows and pastel colors as part of the Metro UI. So, they took out parts of Metro. The flat look is still there. So, my comments seem pretty accurate to me. Windows 10 feels like 8.1 with a start menu and a couple of other improvements I am sure. The PC settings screen didn't change. It's just launched from the start menu now instead of the charms bar.
The operating system still feels like it has a man in the middle versus letting the user interact with the operating system directly. I think Microsoft wants it that way. I will probably never like it as much as Windows 7. But who knows. If Microsoft truly delivers on their intentions of a 'custom experience for each device' then it may have a stronger appeal to me someday.
Ok, well that is a better explanation. You didn't give me much to go on before.
They took out the boot to Metro, I'm not even sure if you can make full Metro happen again, but it certainly wasn't presented as an option to me during my setup of 10. As Captain pointed out, they can't TOTALLY remove it because it is admitting they were wrong.. As it stands now, it isn't a big deal.
Now you mention its still flat, well, sure thats the evolution of things right now. I think it is a bit unfair to ***** about the appearance of a new OS simply because you don't like it. I mean, you can ***** about it all you want, but things change visually almost all the time on OS releases, so complaining about a new look is something that always happens, so I'm not going to give any credit there.
Square windows in my idea is very great. Since it’s not eye candy, and it’s simple:
Windows Aero in Windows 8:
In Windows 8:
In comparison to Windows 7, the interface adopted a flatter look with almost no transparency effects, fewer rounded edges, and solid colored window borders designed to attract more attention to the content of a window.
Creating the Windows 8 user experience - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
To complete the story, we updated the appearance of most common controls, such as buttons, check boxes, sliders, and the Ribbon. We squared off the rounded edges, cleaned away gradients, and flattened the control backgrounds to align with our chrome changes. We also tweaked the colors to make them feel more modern and neutral.
Also a friend of mine, told me this about the Metro UI in Windows 10:
“It’s good that you can remove metro apps from the start menu. It would be even better to be able to remove them from the OS though.
Notifications center, which is not available in this technical build, are, again, a bit of Metro UI they try to unite with the desktop environment, despite it being pretty useless to people who actually use the desktop environment. It’s good they improve them, but if it were me, I’d disable them altogether.
(just like virtual desktops. I’ve tried them on mac and linux, and wasn’t convinced. Basically alt-tabbing windows is just as convenient, and virtual desktops add another layer of switching which confuses me : instead of switching between windows you can switch between windows OR desktops, for basically the same purpose : displaying a window or another. But I guess that’s a marketing answer to people saying “look, Mac OS has virtual desktops and Windows hasn’t !”)”
