Microsoft Making Waves With Tile-Based Interface in Windows 8

[Aedrial]

That looks pure pants on head retarded. What's a bet they have developed an AI to backseat drive for you in case you have trouble turning it on.

 

[Aisaku]

Hate to say this, but this may be a good thing for people who have problems with using a current pc. For instance, the elderly, young children, non computer literate. On the larger scale of things, it does feel wrong that microsoft is trying to gauge their users for a new version this soon. But hey, what can one do?

 

[CommanderKirov]

Is the progression not supposed to... you know. Progress things into more advanced versions?

 

[GeorgW]

I doesn't have to be bad, but it certainly looks like it.
It's ugly as all hell, way too simplistic and so on. That kind of stuff can work on phones cuz you don't have a mouse and have to fumble around with your fingers. I only really use maybe 10 programs and they're all on the bottom of my screen with W7, I don't see why they couldn't be in app formation, but I also don't see why they should be.
Bacially, it's stupid, and I'm perfectly fine with my W7.

 

[SlayerN]

well after seeing this the future looks mighty bleak to me.

I have to ask who at Microsoft though up this new direction, they go positive feedback from Windows 7, the trailers a few years ago for Windows 8 were OK, but now... what were they thinking.

I owned a HP Touchsmart 300 series because I won it in an office holiday drawing. They had something that was near Identical to this that would come up when you started your computer, so my first order of business was to wipe that from the hard drive, but this... this is the OS I hope with all my heart that this isn't the direction that Microsoft wants to go.
(but then again look at the windows phone.)

 

[similar.squirrel]

If there isn't one already, Linux will a workable version of this sort of thing released within a year. And it won't cost over a currencies and take up a sizeable chunk of your hard-drive.

 

[Zarthek]

Looks to me like Microsofts habit of making a terrible OS after putting out a good one is still going... It might actually work but I'm pretty sure that most everyone will just stick with Windows 7.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Dumbing down desktop interfaces and making them more "user friendly" is not the way to go. Ugh. This looks absolutely terrible, and I truly hope it bombs. Really, ultimately, so long as it can be disabled (as shown in the video) and I never have to even pretend the tile-based crap exists, I'm fine, but I see them eventually forcing it as the new standard, which is what worries me.

All in all, at least M$ is consistent with one thing: they've maintained that every-other-release-is-shit standard for quite some time now.

I'm a thousand percent behind this!
Dumbing down is not the way to go, ever!!!!
Educate the dumb users instead...

 

[Jake the Snake]

*Sigh* Microsoft, are you blatantly TRYING to make your new OS work like shit? This is such a terrible idea. There's nothing fucking wrong with the current desktop system, even fucking Apple knows that. Jesus.

 

[The Lugz]

Windows 8 puts the tile in infantile.

hehe, nice.

i plan to use windows 7 until i see an os that is clearly better, nd from what i see ms are just making a tablet / pc / smartphone of the future os that's so generic it cant tell what it is any-more

i reckon people are right on the money, windows 9 will probably be the next good upgrade for desktop users

and i don't care what Steve jobs does, he still runs a cult so i wont be buying anything from him.

or, possibly Linux or chromium in the future if ms can't make something decent.

 

[ionveau]

Its true consoles are winning Soon thanks to all the sheep buying restrictive hardware like phones and consoles every company will restrict their product to only run software that they allow, meaning you will need to buy everything.

I really want to slap everyone with an iphone right now

 

[NickCaligo42]

I really don't want to buy a 3D touchscreen computer monitor just to use this "service". Because that's what it's gonna require if someone uses this for a PC.

I don't disagree with you, I just wanted to point out that it's very ironic that you should be smashing on a luxury item when your icon is Rarity. XD

Yeah, though, this seems pretty much like the worst idea that Microsoft has ever had. I have no bloody idea what they're thinking. It's nice that they're experimenting, but "Windows 8" seems like it's not the place to do that...

I mean, I think of the people I know who primarily depend on Windows, people like... software developers... 3D modelers... graphic designers... filmmakers... And I can't see them running Visual Studio, Maya, Photoshop, Sony Vegas, or really anything heftier than a pocket calculator on this thing. It just seems like a needlessly inconvenient interface for anybody who has to manage file structure beyond simple one-file operations, especially when so many programs are incredibly picky about where you put them in order to make things work. Then I think about all the services and custom settings, particularly with respect to security...

I understand where the market for this product exists--I really do. But a huge portion of Microsoft's user base needs to manage a lot of shit manually and can't afford to hope that this thing understands how to do it for them.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Hell, I use windows 7 and just getting a quicklaunch bar at the bottom of the screen was more trouble than it should have been, and if I want the old start menu, I have to download a third party mod to get it. Small things, but still prime examples of the heart of the issue.

right click on any program running. choose "pin this program to the taskbar".
now throw out that silly third party mod.

Problem with that solution is it keeps your "closed" programs mixed with open ones on the task bar. (btw, Quick Launch isn't third party. The system still supports it, but you have to go through 4 menus to make it active, and none are very clear.).

The whole "pin" mechanic is interesting, and I know many that use it, but I like my bar organized from left to right: Start Button->QuickLaunch->Open Programs->System Icons. Windows7 does not allow that set up without a lot of research on where they buried options that were normally a rightclick away.

Getting the old Windows XP Start menu (when you click start) is what requires a third party mod.

i kind of get that it's annoying, the mixed stuff. but you know, sometimes you have to sacrifice some.

The person you quoted is me. However I don't have a 3rd party quicklaunch.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Hell, I use windows 7 and just getting a quicklaunch bar at the bottom of the screen was more trouble than it should have been, and if I want the old start menu, I have to download a third party mod to get it. Small things, but still prime examples of the heart of the issue.

right click on any program running. choose "pin this program to the taskbar".
now throw out that silly third party mod.

Problem with that solution is it keeps your "closed" programs mixed with open ones on the task bar. (btw, Quick Launch isn't third party. The system still supports it, but you have to go through 4 menus to make it active, and none are very clear.).

The whole "pin" mechanic is interesting, and I know many that use it, but I like my bar organized from left to right: Start Button->QuickLaunch->Open Programs->System Icons. Windows7 does not allow that set up without a lot of research on where they buried options that were normally a rightclick away.

Getting the old Windows XP Start menu (when you click start) is what requires a third party mod.

i kind of get that it's annoying, the mixed stuff. but you know, sometimes you have to sacrifice some.

The person you quoted is me. However I don't have a 3rd party quicklaunch.

wow Oo you just made it very clear to me that i need to get to bed xD

Hah! I feel that. Sadly I'm stuck at work and can't go to sleep. But tonight..me+bed=it's on.


Wait...

 

[Zulnam]

They're called PROGRAMS! FRIGGIN PROGRAMS! Not Applications, not apps, this is a OS for PC's you're promoting not a God damn Iphone!!

Jesus Christ it's like everything's wrong today. I accepted Windows 7, but this is -too- much! The whole two-PROGRAMS thing also sounds like it will eat a load of resources, and they didn't say anything about mouse and keyboard except that "oh, and those old things will work too". So what, if I use a mouse+keyboard I don't have access to all this fancy "touch left side of screen and scroll" thing?

 

[MorsePacific]

It looks like their horrendously designed Windows Phone 7 interface. I'll be sticking with Windows 7 for a while, I think.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

last time I checked my computer didn't have a touch screen

...and I'm pretty sure it's gonna stay that way.

 

[Wes1180]

Going by this video I am quite dissapointed at one point he mentioned tabs being better becuase they take up more space, I have small icons on my desktop for a reason, so it's not cluttered.

Basically it looks like they are trying to make a tablet os that they can also sell for desktops.

"You can also use a mouse and keyboard"... Should be you can also use your fingers...

 

[Roxor]

One more reason to hope the ReactOS [http://www.reactos.org/] team get to Beta soon.

 

[Nouw]

Well at least I now know that upgrading to 7 is going to help in the long run!

Still using Vista.

Fuck yeah.