Mr. Pedantic
Diamond Member
We got it as part of the Home Use program.
Having used it for about 3 hours (just Word for now) it feels like a piece of shit. Pretty much every single action now has an animation, even the caret moving, and it's been smoothed out and slowed down like it's trying to hide a hardware/software speed deficiency (which, seeing as it was created for tablets, it probably usually is). Even scrolling feels bad now. The whole Skydrive sync feature seemed really exciting at first, but the thing keeps spitting back error messages about having failed uploads. What's worse, it works usually - but it still tells you it failed. And because failed, it will try again in a couple minutes. But it'll fail this too. So it'll try again in a couple minutes. But it'll- you see the problem here?
The Skydrive thing also causes delays in weird parts of the program - but again, only sometimes. It's frustrating, and inconsistent, and when you've gotten used to the instant snappiness that using Word 2007 on an SSD gave, it's jarring and frustrating and very, very slow.
The whole Metro UI think looks pretty nice, I always hated the rounded corners and the shine that the old Ribbon had. But it's not that big an improvement, when I'm using Office I don't really look at the Ribbon anymore, because I've become accustomed to using keyboard shortcuts to access my most used functions. And the Metro UI feels like another point of slowness when opening and closing documents.
So basically, I've traded what used to work (albeit poorly in certain areas *cough*formatting*cough*) for something that looks almost the same, works almost as well, and is as slow as a paraplegic sloth.
Having used it for about 3 hours (just Word for now) it feels like a piece of shit. Pretty much every single action now has an animation, even the caret moving, and it's been smoothed out and slowed down like it's trying to hide a hardware/software speed deficiency (which, seeing as it was created for tablets, it probably usually is). Even scrolling feels bad now. The whole Skydrive sync feature seemed really exciting at first, but the thing keeps spitting back error messages about having failed uploads. What's worse, it works usually - but it still tells you it failed. And because failed, it will try again in a couple minutes. But it'll fail this too. So it'll try again in a couple minutes. But it'll- you see the problem here?
The Skydrive thing also causes delays in weird parts of the program - but again, only sometimes. It's frustrating, and inconsistent, and when you've gotten used to the instant snappiness that using Word 2007 on an SSD gave, it's jarring and frustrating and very, very slow.
The whole Metro UI think looks pretty nice, I always hated the rounded corners and the shine that the old Ribbon had. But it's not that big an improvement, when I'm using Office I don't really look at the Ribbon anymore, because I've become accustomed to using keyboard shortcuts to access my most used functions. And the Metro UI feels like another point of slowness when opening and closing documents.
So basically, I've traded what used to work (albeit poorly in certain areas *cough*formatting*cough*) for something that looks almost the same, works almost as well, and is as slow as a paraplegic sloth.
