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I don't know if I am comfortable with a bloated start menu. Most of the 'live tiles' that they show on it are things that I don't necessarily need, or like to get from separate online sources. I suppose it could be really handy for mobile and touch devices, but for someone using a laptop or PC.
Understandably, this interface is being built with convenience and convergence in mind. From the chunk visual style to its multi-platform versatility, you can't help but guess that the marketing and research for this was done even more heavily to target not just the computer literate. Its a good way to make your devices accessible, but that goes both ways. If I had to guess, problems will arise on all of your Windows 8 devices more often because of it.
Aesthetically the new OS looks like a mall or museum kiosk, and that pisses me off. Some people might not mind it. Those people aren't me though, which really is all that matters when you take your operating system to the public. It needs to be open and manageable for the people that want to mix things up and personalize their devices, or PERSONAL computers for that matter.
Enough blathering. Go fix the NFL lockout!
Understandably, this interface is being built with convenience and convergence in mind. From the chunk visual style to its multi-platform versatility, you can't help but guess that the marketing and research for this was done even more heavily to target not just the computer literate. Its a good way to make your devices accessible, but that goes both ways. If I had to guess, problems will arise on all of your Windows 8 devices more often because of it.
Aesthetically the new OS looks like a mall or museum kiosk, and that pisses me off. Some people might not mind it. Those people aren't me though, which really is all that matters when you take your operating system to the public. It needs to be open and manageable for the people that want to mix things up and personalize their devices, or PERSONAL computers for that matter.
Enough blathering. Go fix the NFL lockout!
Make it like Kinect, where the specialized Touch interface is buried underneath something actually usable, and I'll be alright.
As someone with a touch screen PC running windows 7, I can't fucking wait for this!
The touchscreen on my PC is literally only ever used to press "Find Game" on Starcraft while I'm rolling a smoke. I WISH there was more it could be used for, sure if my lad has hidden my mouse it's useful, but apart fro that it's never touched.
So yeah, i want this, and I'm sure those live-tiles must be customisable!!
I'd have a Dtoid tile for sure.
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The touchscreen on my PC is literally only ever used to press "Find Game" on Starcraft while I'm rolling a smoke. I WISH there was more it could be used for, sure if my lad has hidden my mouse it's useful, but apart fro that it's never touched.
So yeah, i want this, and I'm sure those live-tiles must be customisable!!
I'd have a Dtoid tile for sure.
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While aesthetically it looks pretty neat, I personally have my interfaces small and clean. Plus, I loathe touchscreens and their lack of tactile feedback. So it's a solid 'do not want' from me.
Plus you can already do a lot of that shit using Rainmeter.
Plus you can already do a lot of that shit using Rainmeter.
Not to mention that you can bypass this interface entirely and only use the standard Aero experience... but this is rocking my pants so far.
It looks even worse than Windows Phone 7, and that says alot! Surprised they didn't just copy Honeycomb or GNOME 3.0, they are at least good to look at abiet not very functional but this doesn't look functional until you exit out of it.
Its one of the drawbacks of being designed by a committee
Its one of the drawbacks of being designed by a committee
Hmmm... Dunno if I'm diggin' this. It seems like it was designed by a social soccer mom for other on-the-go socialites. They're keeping the old interface as well, so I guess it's not that bad. At least they're trying something new. Just not a fan of swipey-ness...
meh, ive got win 7 on my 1 year old PC and dont plan on upgrading my OS untill I buy or build a new PC.
Windows 7 is fine
Windows 7 is fine
so does that means I can't have a beautiful slideshow-wallpaper in my PC if I use this one? That sucks... I hate solid colour...
two things they should add in windows 8 to make me happy, tabs in windows explorer and if you uninstall internet explorer or never installed it at all (EU version) you should not be prompted with internet explorer updates
oops forgot always make my computer the top level directory instead of the user when you are browsing there or even worse the worthless libraries
Gald nobody looks into this, the metro tiles are actually the start up screen, you can easily move those away to a more traditional Windows 7 underneath. Also this'll be really cool with my touchscreen netbook, PVZ is already just like the tablet versions with multitouch, it'll be nice to get more touch-friendly games on it.
so basically a fully working Windows OS with all capabilities of newest Android OS? this looks great seems like they took a lot of ideas from MS Courier. i was thinking about buying new netbook for work since my current one is nearly 3 years old(and even back then it wasn't the newest version of EEE PC that was available).
though i still would rather have MS Courier - it baffles me that MS cancelled already working product that to this day is still years ahead of current tablet PCs with Android-based and Apple products being prime examples. it was way ahead of its time i guess.
though i still would rather have MS Courier - it baffles me that MS cancelled already working product that to this day is still years ahead of current tablet PCs with Android-based and Apple products being prime examples. it was way ahead of its time i guess.
Looks terrible,bloated, and unnecesary.
Expect it to be riddled with bugs and require immediate patching Vista style.
Expect it to be riddled with bugs and require immediate patching Vista style.
I've been reading about this for the last few weeks and it sounds awesome! Microsoft is ace with software so I would expect no less, but I can't help but feel like Windows 7 is still awesome and they could have just upgraded it to include a lot of these features. It feels a little too soon but in the interest of competing with Apple I can understand why they are doing it. If I can install this on my HTC Thunderbolt then I will be all over this. If not, I will probably wait a year or so before switching to Win 8.
Why would a PC user want to switch from Windows 7 to Windows 8? I don't think many people would have an answer to that.
I love Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7, but keep them seperate. I don't need that colourful shit on my desktop.
Just another excuse to milk their poor customers. I stress 'poor' because this company needs to decide what business it wants to be in. It can't seem to handle innovating in both the consumer and enterprise markets. Either break up MS and profit or drop one model and profit; trying to do both will only see them fail as they have been doing with all their recent "innovations."
I think it's cool if you've got the touch-enabled hardware to go with it. I'll probably stick with Windows 7, which I absolutely LOVE.
This thing is so ugly it's painful. Im baffled as to why microsoft chose to go in this direction. I have never met anyone that has a touch screen for their PC. Why would I buy an operating system that is designed to work with a piece of hardware that I will never buy and is likely incredibly expensive
For those that are worried about everything moving to touch, rest assured that the standard interface we have with Win7 will still be available. Personally, I can't really imagine using this as a desktop interface, but it looks great for a tablet. So far, tablet interfaces have been either glorified phone UIs or a desktop UI jammed into a tablet. Both suck. This looks like something that will actually be usable.
I think it looks awesome... for a tablet. I'm pretty sure that's what's being pictured since there's no way a mouse user would navigate around the UI efficiently. Plus as someone already stated you'll be able to switch back to Aero.
I think that although the OS would work great on tablets and other portable devices, that the layout just wouldn't work for a desktop PC. I can't believe that MS would be stupid enough to ship out an OS that wouldn't include a "classic" feature, so they wouldn't alienate their user base.
So they took Windows Phone 7, added a bit of XBL, added apps and made Windows 8. I don't know how they think this is so new and inventive. Doing things that you and other people have done before, is not new, or inventive. You're just reusing old stuff and putting a new shell around it. I'm not impressed, but they have another year to go, so hopefully they get some new ideas.
On a side note, if you want to know what the next version of XBL will look like. Than just picture something like this, on the XboX 3, in a couple of years from now. But with a touchscreen in the controller, ala what Nintendo is going to be doing first. I can see it all now. Get your copy machines ready at Microsoft, because you're about to steal somebody else's idea again. I'm sure Sony, is going to be right behind them as well though!
On a side note, if you want to know what the next version of XBL will look like. Than just picture something like this, on the XboX 3, in a couple of years from now. But with a touchscreen in the controller, ala what Nintendo is going to be doing first. I can see it all now. Get your copy machines ready at Microsoft, because you're about to steal somebody else's idea again. I'm sure Sony, is going to be right behind them as well though!
If I had a touch PC then I would be excited. I'm a bit curious to see how this works with the traditional mouse and keyboard setup. Until I know, color me cautious.
It's not my particular bag but i'm a misanthropic bugger anyway so what is these days!
Saying that though that interface looks great for a smartphone or tablet but i only have my desktop so i'll stick with win 7 and the interface i know just works.
Saying that though that interface looks great for a smartphone or tablet but i only have my desktop so i'll stick with win 7 and the interface i know just works.
Its not half bad for mobile or integrated computing(like a screen in your wall next to your bed)
For the main home PC though... its not. For a home PC that your not carrying around with you, these kinds of touch interfaces immediately fail. Even if you have a 32 inch touch screen monitor it would be insanely uncomfortable to have to hunch forward and use it as your mouse.
For the main home PC though... its not. For a home PC that your not carrying around with you, these kinds of touch interfaces immediately fail. Even if you have a 32 inch touch screen monitor it would be insanely uncomfortable to have to hunch forward and use it as your mouse.
Just from the screens and ideas posted above, I'm likely going to skip this one. Not enough people have touch-screen PCs, and the ones that do are the "casual" market of computers.
This is the tablet OS I've been waiting for, but I hope there is an option to outrightly disable that start panel, I don't want to dick around to get to the desktop on my gaming rig.
While I'm skeptical about the usability, I'm still pretty interested. I don't have any windows-ready touch devices, but I do have a Cintiq 21UX and have been hoping for a more fluid user interface when managing my files and media.
PLEASE STOP IT MICROSOFT....THE REASON WE LOVE YOU IS BECAUSE YOU ARENT AN APPLE PRODUCT SO STOP TRYING TO BE ONE
I like the new start menu actually being a whole new UI. We've been using the same desktop + icons + taskbar interface since forever and this basically changes that from the ground up.
I have beta tested the last two Windows releases (Vista and 6.1... I mean 7) but I don't know about testing 8 on my main machine. I am currently testing Lion on my Air, and to tell the truth, I am more excited for Mac OS X Lion, than I am Windows 8. More than likely, I will be testing 8 as well, I just don't know how excited I will be for it...
I don't see any reason why I should get Windows 8. There's nothing wrong with 7, and I don't have nor want (at this moment in time) any non-laptop/PC/Xbox devices that use Microsoft software. Besides, Zune is pretty much dead, and Windows Phone isn't worth throwing my Android-based Galaxy S away for.
One thing I like about microsoft is that while they're jumping onto the touchscreen bandwagon (How could they not) they aren't trying to copy apple's style at all. The design looks really damn good, but distinct and different. The OS scaling to different devices is also a big step.
I just hope that when it's on my home PC, it will look more like it does now than the touchscreen interface.
I just hope that when it's on my home PC, it will look more like it does now than the touchscreen interface.
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