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#91
Hi there
These are my real problems with this build
1) No Search (mine doesn't work) on start screen so if I need EXCEL I'm back to scrolling down the menu vertically (well it's a bit better than the endless Horizontal scroll I had in W8/W8.1).
2) Start menu totally non customiseable on the applications side (left).
3) Start menu far too large on smaller laptops -- about 45% of a 14 inch screen (and why shouldn't I use a 14 inch screen -- nice and portable and reasonably light unlike the normal 16 - 16.5 inch monster laptops you ofen see).
4) Control panel and settings integration really hosed up -- either have a control panel or have ALL the settings in settings -- it will drive anybody mad to find stuff.
5) can't change text size on screen from settings, (resolution too small - 1368 X 768 as normal laptop. That will p*** a lot of people off). You can fiddle around with right mouse click on the desktop screen area ==>personalisation and it works as before.
6) Networking still a bit flakey.
I do like most of it though - but it seems a really half assed attempt at the moment with the whole start menu / tablet mode thing going into a total mess. Seems a bit like how they used to describe a Camel -- A Horse designed by a Committee.
There will have to be another build --this one works from a technical point of view but I don't think they actually got some bog standard ordinary USERS to have a go with this before letting it out of the door. If I were coming from W7 the new start menu would send shivers down my spine. Get that fixed ASAP Ms.
7) Once you select tablet mode there doesn't seem to be any way of going back to desktop mode. (I'm using a Touch laptop fot testing this build).
Final point although not sure if this is Ms's fault. Latest released of VMware workstation and player -- 3D doesn't get supported even though on my previous release it worked fine so that's probably a VMware fault. Unity is also broken - I like Unity mode and so do some people I test VM's with.
My instinct is perhaps to skip this build unless you want to play with Cortana. The Start menu is too totally hosed up to use this properly. The Search (you must be able to type say a name of a program without doing an endless scroll whether horizontally or vertically) needs to be fixed too.
Applications though when you can find them !!! all seem to work correctly.
So my verdict -- see attached well known project cartoon screen shot below. !!!!
Cheers
jimbo