Microsoft Making Waves With Tile-Based Interface in Windows 8

[gyroscopeboy]

Microsoft has the problem of waaay too big a target audience...there's the hardcore tinkerers (pretty much everyone here it seems) and then there's the Mom & Pops..who get sold whatever the salesperson gives them and have a hard time understanding the current Windows UI...they can't win whatever they do!

 

[Callate]

Y'know, the one thing I solidly dislike about Windows 7 and the various applications designed for it is having to dig through all the so-called "ease of use" and "simplification" nonsense just to find things like the File and Options menus.

These redesigns inevitably seem based on the idea that some MS user interface engineer has a better idea how things "should" be done than I do so they'll just make the typical user do things that way be default and hide the ways of changing them (or changing them back) so they don't confuse the poor simple folk.

 

[SovietX]

They reasons are to simplify computing. If you dont know how to use a computer, theres something wrong with you. Dont fix what isn't broken. My desktop is simple right now. Games on the left, Applications on the right and misc files in the middle. I dont need giant squares of crap taking up my whole screen being retarded.

Me thinks i'll have to hang onto my W7 Boot disc.

 

[Callate]

If Microsoft wants to improve my user experience, they could try making an OS that doesn't use up half-again as much system resources as the previous version to serve up a bunch of useless chrome, a media player that doesn't take thirty seconds of chasing its own tail to play a stupid MP3 file, and a web browser that doesn't put a "delete shortcut" button next to the "open history" button and doesn't keep putting local folders in the address bar for no conceivable reason.

 

[Traun]

This is clunky and unintuitive. I hope they have 98(oh please do)/XP/Vista theme as an option. I work with many files, located in many folders in many directories, I can't be bothered to go through 200 apps before reaching what I need.

 

[Smerf]

someone needs to somehow convince windows that most of its ideas are bad,vista was horrible, 7 was bloated (but better then vista) and this looks like crap. their last good idea was xp.
makes me glad i use linux.

 

[darksakul]

Microsoft Bob all over again

 

[keideki]

Psh, I already had a topic up about this.....

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

There's always Linux!

 

[hoockhand]

I really really REALLY hope this is just microsoft trolling us.. if not I pray to god Linux gets Direct X on it

 

[darkcommanderq]

If anything would make me into a linux person that would be it. or ill just stick with 7.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

This looks... stupid. I could see it working on a tablet or as an app, but as a OS on my computer? Nuh uh.

Twas my response to an earlier thread about this. Not cool, I'll skip Windows 8 if this is the future of Windows.

 

[punipunipyo]

Windows 8, where your once powerful pc, will now look, and feel like a cell phone,(with an OVER-SIZED screen, attached to a tower, mount to the wall by power plugs, and best of all, with out the portability of the cell phone.... does the web browser cost extra for file transfer limits? I hate the hold and drag design...

 

[PettingZOOPONY]

How many times has Microsoft stated that windows 8 is for smartphones and tablets not desktop pc use unless you just really want to.

 

[THEoriginalBRIEN]

Initial impressions say I'm going to stick with Windows 7. I'll still pay attention, and maybe they'll change my mind, but right now I'm not too excited for Windows 8.

I also love how Microsoft assume's we all are caught up with touchpad desktop's when there's another recession/depression looming overhead.

Another? We're still in the one we've been in for years now. There isn't another one looming overhead, the current one simply has no end in sight.

We're in the midst of an uneasy recovery. If you can remember back a couple years, things were a lot worse. Not that they're good now, but the U.S. just hit it's debt ceiling (a damn high one at that) and our treasury is about to flip the emergency switch i.e. defaulting on America's commitments, likely causing the global economy to plunge further.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

I personally like vista after you remove/disable the bloatware...



OT: I will only use it if the universities have released their hologram tech to the public by the time this goes into full-spin >.>

 

[Frostbite3789]

Finally something that will work on tablets, thank goodness. This looks amazing, cue the luddites whining about touchscreen and how it doesn't run like a 10 year old piece of software...

A 10 year old piece of software that runs ridiculously smooth. I'm stuck with Vista, being a poor college student who got a laptop at the wrong time. It's a buggy piece of shit.

 

[Necrofudge]

Wow that looks awful. That might work on a tablet or something but this is not the way to go with a computer operating system.

"User friendly" just means they're watering it down.

 

[mornal]

This has probably been posted by the fifth page but people realise that you don't need to use a touch screen, right?

It was designed to be used with a fingertip or mouse, whichever you prefer or have.

Although it does remind me a lot of the Zune and windows phone UI.

 

[Soren515]

Glad I'm on Ubuntu