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Originally Posted by BWinmill
...Again, that is an issue with Metro. If you avoided Metro applications, you wouldn't notice the non-resizable windows or non-closable applications. (Actually, I'm pretty sure you could close the application from the task manager. Yet that is something that most users wouldn't be aware of or comfortable with.)
The biggest issue, in my opinion, with Windows 8 was system management. Simple put, some things are changed in the classic control panel and other things are changed in the modern control panel. That makes some settings difficult to find. Then again, that is something that end users shouldn't be encountering on a regular basis...
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That is exactly as I see it too BWinmill. It always amazes me how the chattering classes promulgate all sorts of rubbish on the internet about things they have little or no experience of.
Regarding the window resizing one has to keep in mind that the "Metro" apps are not designed to be resized. Desktop applications work as designed, and generally faster too.
Regarding system management, those things accessible from the Control Panel in earlier versions remain accessible from the Control Panel, but new users may not recognise that is so. For myself, as I use the Control Panel a lot, on my own machines I just placed a tile to it on the Start page.
Another common complaint was in 8.0 it was a little circuitous to do a restart or shutdown. Again one could just put a tile for each on the Start page for a 1 click shut down. Now the average user may not readily know how to put a tile there for those functions which are, of course, not in the Applications List page but 2 minutes research on the internet and 5 minutes to do the job is all it would take them if they were inclined to try. When 8.1 introduced the left click restart/shutdown/etc. I actually removed the tiles but promptly replaced them because it is just so efficient using the Start Page.