Dany Rodier:
Way i implemented Taskbar/Charms bar in Start is same as it is implemented right now in developer preview. Actualy there's one problem, don't know are you pointing on this? I stated that you open Charms bar on touch screen devices with sliding finger from down
to up. This gesture is reserved for opening Metro apps menus, and that is the problem. On tablets and desktop without touchscreen monitors this is not big deal. You have physical Windows button on tablets so you realy don't have to have this gesture
for Charms bar, it can freely been used as it is now - for opening app menus. On desktop machines without touchscreen monitors you can open Charms bar with moving mouse pointer to very bottom of screen or with pressing Windows key on keyboard (Bad experience
but it works). And you are opening app menu with right mouse click. But when we come to desktop machines with touchscreen monitors things are different. You don't have physical Windows button on monitors, at least not for now. You can still on those machines
use Windows button on keyboard to open Charms bar but this ruins user experience alot when you are primarly expecting to work on touchscreen device(in my opinion this is much worse scenario than with mouse), and this realy should be used as last alternative.
What can be solution?
Now when i thinked deeply about whole concept i realised that usability is much more broken in Windows 8 on devices without touchsceen then it seemed to me at first. On the other side Microsoft is probably aware of this with belif that touchscreens will
take over market.
Maybe having Windows button all the time visible on Start will pick up usability a bit for traditional users?
