I'm running into an issue while in the Desktop where links open in the Metro IE, instead of Desktop IE. WTF? So I'm constantly switching back and forth between Metro and Desktop. The fullscreen flip animation is very jarring, not to mention tedious.<p>Besides that, my biggest complaint would have to be the Metro experience on a non-touch device. I feel so lost. I'm just pressing keys hoping it'll activate a Metro shortcut. Right click, Windows button, Alt-tab, Windows-tab, etc... Trackpad doesn't support multi-touch, so scrolling is awkward.
I just realized a major advantage that the Metro IE will have over the Desktop IE. If you're using Metro, software packages won't be able to install their crappy (and/or spyware) toolbars in people's browsers all the time.
The biggest difference is that Metro IE doesn't support Flash/Silverlight/plugins and desktop IE does. This is, I suspect, why they put a 'switch to desktop IE' feature into Metro IE. Site's broken? Just flip to the full version.
one engine, two skins. but the real question is will that engine be any good, and are they going to attempt to compete at all with mozilla and chrome's accelerated release schedules?<p>i don't care how awesome the browser's UI is, can it properly display the UI of the websites i am trying to view?