Re: I put it on a desktop system
I also put 9926 on a Desktop VM to give it a try for the first time. As a Win-7 desktop user I was very disappointed. (I still think it's way worst than Windows 7, for multiple reasons).
First off, it's goes further in spreading the 'TIFKAM' graphics style. For desktop use, I hate the flat, lifeless style and I think it's less informationally dense.
As far as search goes,I don't want a combined 'search the Web and my local computer' when I usually want to search my local computer, and I have a Web browser when I want to search the web.
They really seem to be pushing hard to be 'Always logged on' (and presumably ready to buy more 'apps' from their store). I don't want to constantly send my search habits to MS ( or any of their friends), etc.
The start menu seems to lack many of the features I use in Win 7, Like the Fly-out menus to the right for Control Panel, etc.
Initially, I really didn't find anything that I would think of as an 'improvement' over Windows 7...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
