The Metro UI supports legacy mice.

So does my cat.

Win8 works perfectly fine without touch.

So does a lot of Win7. However, wasn't the biggest criticism of WIndows 7 and touch the appalingly bad way Office worked with touch? MS's solution was TIFKAM and no change to Office.

Works best with a wheel mouse, but is there any other sort nowadays? Like OS X, it works better with newer computers. Unlike OS X, it works on computers more than 5 years old.

Clearly you lack even basic abilities

Yes APE, there are mice out there with no wheels.

Here are some examples

You have this irrational fear of Apple for some very strange reason and yet you claim to own a number of their products.

Most odd.

my opinion is its a failure on useability on the desktop with a mouse.

marketing and commercial success however a different story.

whilst it is useable with apps like 'startisback' it still has weird issues with certian windows looking out of place on the desktop and other features removed.

I think tablets are a poor product but they sell well as well, they sell based on gimmick and novelty, microsoft realised that and jumped on the bandwagon.

I brought 2 win8 licenses purely because the upgrade deal expires early 2013, I expect at some point in the future there will be a reason for me to have to use win8 so I brought ahead of time. But I am not using those 2 licenses at the moment.

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 04-Dec-12 08:56:08)

In reply to a post by CurlyWhirly:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

The Metro UI supports legacy mice.

Not much of an incentive to upgrade from Windows 7 though !?

I think it looks drab compared to Windows 7

That's the new look MS is using. Remove most of the colour, tone down what's left. Take away shadows. They left a lot of colour on the Start window but a lot of applications have been drained of life. It's another thing I don't understand about Microsoft.

Edited by Andrue (Tue 04-Dec-12 08:56:35)

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Edited by billford (Tue 04-Dec-12 08:59:45)

and he is praising a product which has copied apple