Windows 8 – issues resolved?

Windows 8 you either hate or love it, it’s hard to somehow be in between. I’ve discovered it works great on a media center PC as well as a tablet but it just won’t work well on a desktop PC or a Laptop/Notebook where you are using various programs in a multi tasking environment. On a productive system the Metro (I somehow keep calling it Metroid in the video ) interface keeps getting in the way.

The sheer fact that Metro isn’t a complete GUI with a lot of essential features missing just makes it an incomplete experience. If the Metro GUI had been complete it would have made big difference.

The Windows 8 OS has some benefits over Windows7 and its predecessors as file operations are quicker, USB peripheral recognition is quicker and boot up/shut down times – even on regular old fashioned hard drives – is a lot quicker. I prefer that over Vista and Windows 7 as those OS’es really can go into GURU meditation where the responsiveness to the user is halted and you have no idea what the heck is going on.

A freeware program called the Classic Shell takes away a lot of the Metro-issues I had with Windows 8 and I show it here.

Mind you this was shot on my cell-phone/mobile so the quality is a little shakey and it lacks any of the higher production values I am experimenting with at the moment

The software mentioned in this video can be found here:
http://www.classicshell.net

Oh and I also bought a great deal on Steam, all the Sega games for about 35 euros or something like that. Alone for Sega racing it was worth getting that even if I loathe downloadable games. Hey I have a right to be inconsistent! It’s the human condition
Sadly that deal is not available any longer on Steam. Just got it in the nick of time, when there were about two hours left on it. Thanks MrCustard!