with a finger. But when you have the flexibility and precision of a mouse, it makes no sense. In Metro Most of your screen is taken up with white space. Text is bigger, the buttons are bigger, the borders are bigger. There's less information, more wastage. It's a complete mess. The treatment of the desktop as an app is an out and out disaster The Metro interface is Windows 8. The desktop that you're used to is also there, but it's built as a separate app. Think of it this way: Metro is the shell. The desktop is an app within that shell. If you want to start Steam, you'll want to launch the Desktop app, and then launch Steam. This is insanity. This is Windows 8. Window management is a pain in the arse Metro apps don't have any window controls. If you want to swap between apps, you have to make a convoluted mouse gesture - move the mouse to the top left of the screen, and then down to select the window. You can't minimise the app, and there's no on-screen preview of what's running to help you quickly switch between programs. You can pick up windows and shunt them, say, to a second screen, which initially feels relatively useful. But I've discovered more than anything that you spend more time fiddling with their arrangement than actually doing anything useful with them. Switching between Metro apps is a complete farce I can't get over how Microsoft have