Quote Originally Posted by Calneon View Post
I have like 100+ bookmarks, how is that meant to work on the Metro interface? Do I have to scroll through over 100 icons to find the site I want to go on? Does that list also include all my programs? You said it also contains the latest news, stocks, and weather. Seems like it's going to be a clusterfuck of text and icons am I right? From what I've seen you can't group up icons so am I going to have to scroll through 5 pages of icons to find what I want?
I think I'd pin something like my 10 favourite sites to the start screen. I'd use the normal version of IE/Chrome/Firefox/Opera for my other hundreds of favourites. You can pin anything to the screen, so you can have apps or normal desktop applications there too. By default, it doesn't include everything, you have to choose what you want to have there. When you install something though, it will appear (I think).

You can also group and name your groups on the start screen, which should help to reduce the 'cluserfuck of text and icons'. In terms of the favicon thing, I do actually agree. I don't want the small favicon there, I want to be able to add some extra lines of code to the site to get something nicer to appear. Problem with that though is that not all sites would do it, so I don't know if there's an easy solution. Perhaps that'll change with the full release, I don't know.

But yeah, for current Windows power users (like us), I think the Metro start screen is less handy. Like Mitch said, we have all our applications open on boot, and have all our tabs when we open our browser. A metro 'glance' view may not be as useful, unless we fundamentally are happy to change the way we interact with our PC. As with all change, some people like it, some people don't.