My biggest beef with Metro wasn't the lack of the Start Menu, although that was up there. Rather, it was that the Touch events that make it useful are NOT emulated with a mouse (at least, I couldn't figure out how to make them work.)
What should be simple things, like being able to just click the desktop ANYWHERE, and drag it back and forth to more it horizontally (like you can do with a finger/touch) doesn't work. You have to go to the bottom of the screen and use the scroll bar.
Swipe-In events from the top/sides/bottom of the screen don't work, ruining much of the default "usability" (if you call it that) of new apps like IE10(Metro version) or even the default desktop Metro UI functionality and charms.
The mouse is definitely a second-class citizen in Metro, and it shouldn't be. If Microsoft would just make the touch controls work with a mouse, that would eliminate probably 70% of my problems with Metro. Put the Start Menu back, and I'm left with just vague uneasiness cause something is changing.
You can scroll with the wheel or by pushing against the sides of the screen, as well as the scrollbar (which btw makes it easier to jump to another part of the page than it would be with touch).
"swipe-in from top/bottom" = right-click, and "swipe from sides" = swing around the corners.
In general the design philosophy for mouse in Win8 is that it shouldn't be used to imitate the touch controls, but rather it should have its own independent set of controls for the same actions, that better fit the mouse.
What should be simple things, like being able to just click the desktop ANYWHERE, and drag it back and forth to more it horizontally (like you can do with a finger/touch) doesn't work. You have to go to the bottom of the screen and use the scroll bar.
Swipe-In events from the top/sides/bottom of the screen don't work, ruining much of the default "usability" (if you call it that) of new apps like IE10(Metro version) or even the default desktop Metro UI functionality and charms.
The mouse is definitely a second-class citizen in Metro, and it shouldn't be. If Microsoft would just make the touch controls work with a mouse, that would eliminate probably 70% of my problems with Metro. Put the Start Menu back, and I'm left with just vague uneasiness cause something is changing.