MetroUI in Windows 8 was pretty universally panned. I thought it was pretty good on tablets and such, but it left a lot to be desired on desktops and hid a lot of functionality, it went too mobile for a lot of people's tastes.

Disclaimer: I was one of the dozens who used a windows phone. The Nokia Lumia 920 was great, you can fight me.

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stevage 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I think a lot of people liked the Windows mobile experience. Shame it didn't quite get enough market share.

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Nextgrid 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Resetting the app ecosystem 3 fucking times by breaking app compatibility didn't help. Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone 8 -> Windows (Phone?) 10.

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hyperrail 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wrong. There was full app compat of WP7 apps in WP8 and Win10 Mobile, and for WP8 apps in W10M. The only full backward app compat break was from WM6.5/WP6.5 to WP7.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're thinking of the lack of device OS upgrades: from WP6.5 to WP7, from WP7 to WP8, and from older WP8 devices to W10M. So no forward compat, but absolutely yes to backward compat.

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ulbu 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i guess they needed to release all that pent up backwards incompatibility

	▲	SuperNinKenDo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You joke, but I honestly wonder if this period and projects didn't involve a bunch of Microsoft employees who got a little overexcited when they were told that they didn't need to maintain the insane, sometimes bug-for-bug, compatibility layers with 20-40 year old software that they had had to deal with their entire career there. Must have felt incredibly liberating, and maybe they got a little too into the whole idea of "fresh start"(s). See also Windows RT.