Final thoughts on Windows 8: A design disaster
> I’m going to avoid commenting on Metro on touch-based systems for now because Windows 8 is too far off in the future to know what the hardware is going to be like. Instead, I’m going to limit my discussion to using the operating system on desktop and notebook systems.<p>I think he roundly missed the point.<p>Yes you scan over the screen and it might be hard to find the things you want on day one. That's how it was with our iPhone and Androids too on the first day we got them.<p>You all know what happens. People rearrange to their taste or memorize the locations of the less-than-five applications that they commonly use. It's not as if the "where's waldo" game goes on indefinitely.<p>I think he's being intentionally obtuse about this. Windows is trying to unify their UI among the XBox, Phones, Tablets and Desktops and he wants to focus on the one where it will be less useful than the others by complaining about a problem that literally every smartphone user has already solved by day three.<p>Typing the name of the app you want is clumsy, you say? More clumsy than eyeballing a list that gets rather large?<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Z0pCc.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Z0pCc.png</a><p>If you know what you want, typing is <i>vastly</i> easier than scanning a long startmenu list of items.