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Originally Posted by K. Molen
Everything you said in that post is spot on as far as I'm concerned. I've yet to see a complaint about Windows 8 that isn't somewhere rooted in "it's different than before and I don't like it." Which is fine and a valid point of view, but people keep trying to claim that Windows 8 is somehow more convoluted and difficult than Windows 7. It isn't, it's just different.
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It's not just being different that makes it more convoluted and difficult, it's the incompleteness. As I mentioned before Modern is not a complete interface that can stand on its own. As a touch interface, it is missing key components of what has made Android successful including but not limited to interactive widgets, centralized notifications, multiple store options, and personalization. As a PC interface, it can't do windows which is a huge omission, and it also can't do most of the advanced configuration. Windows 8 relies on the desktop for a lot of its shortcomings, but even that isn't quite what people are used to in 7.
Another example of a frustration is how the Windows Store installs apps on multiple profiles. In short, it doesn't. You have no option to install an app on anything other than the profile you are in at the time. To get it on the other profiles you have to go into each profile and install it, and in one case I even got charged twice for the same app because of this and have yet to get a refund. The store is very poorly done, by far the worst one out there. If you know the name of what you are looking for you can find it easily enough. If not, or if you want to find similar alternative apps, well, good luck.
How about side swipes to select multiple mail items? Completely hidden feature and different than selecting anything else in Modern. Not to mention the mail app as a whole feels about 4 years out of date.
Ever try getting the contents of an SD card to be seen in Modern apps in an RT device? Something automatic on other OSs that you almost certainly won't be figuring out without Google and some technical savvy.
Try opening the Photos app, select your Facebook or other online picture account, then try to copy a picture from there onto the PC. Can't be done. something that started as a great idea and then not finished.
As I said earlier, I could go on and on and on about these little frustrations, but the bottom line is my Surface RT was a very frustrating experience overall. I have spent literally hours on forums and Google looking up stuff I never needed to for Android or previous versions of Windows. Now that I have had it a couple months I am used to it. I do love that 8/RT is the most powerful mobile OS out there and right now I find it the best OS overall for my mobile needs. But I still don't really like it.