The Weakness of Windows 8

By All Windows 8 Team at October 06, 2011 - 2993 view

There are many developers who see there are still weakness in the Windows 8 that the predictions will become a mainstay of Microsoft in the future. For that Microsoft should know the weaknesses of Windows 8 and fix them immediately so that their flagship OS is able to look perfect.

The Window 8 Weakness

Metro Multitasking.

If my friend using the Metro application in Windows 8 for tablet, the screen will display two applications in a row. For beginners it would not be a big problem. However for the advanced user, multitasking capabilities with Metro for only two applications is a fatal weakness.

Metro UI and Aero UI.

Developers found the constant turnover that occurs between the tile-based Metro glassy Aero UI and UI. It is considered unreasonable and very confusing. Switching from Metro applications and desktop applications very difficult.

Metro UI

Metro was able to work well on the tablet but the UI is not very compatible when used on the desktop. Hard to do for my friend who using Notebook. So that by default Windows 8 may not be able to boot to the Metro UI. In other words, Microsoft needs to deliver kill-switches to turn off the Metro UI.

Difficult Switching Between Screens

The absence of Alt-Tab function such as working with the desktop and the keyboard to switch from one app to another app may be a very difficult thing. Instead, in Windows 8 Metro UI we can not use a pointer or finder to put the screen on the left side and drag. There is no quick and easy way to switch between applications. If you move the mouse to the left then an icon will pops up. And if not right then we have to click several times or try again.

Tiles

When Microsoft introduced the System Tray, the feature is referred to as critical so designed to allow users to easily access and view the status of a particular application will be very quickly done. But now in Windows 8, the System Tray instead would be very disturbing. In Windows 8, Metro desktop UI will even become the latest System Tray. Each application will require the system tray. And the more applications you run, then the system tray will bubble. Although Microsoft promised to deliver applications that are lightweight and easy to administer, but if you use iTunes to stream and there are many other applications are running, can you imagine what would happen to our favorite tablet.