Windows 8
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- orpkoobcam20
I see that wall of mess quite often in design studios and i have to say - it's not good. Sure build up a wall of ideas, but start to refine it, take down the crap, and at least paste everything up in a grid. your design studio is looking more like a 15 year old's bedroom wall - not a place to think deeply.
And how can you think deeply when there's some idiot blasting out spotify....
modern open plan design studios are hell.
- jadrian_uk0
they're uglier than Apple but more concise. oh and Apple Aqua is a shitty interface design.
- sherm0
just used a dev preview of windows 8. Gotta say it just looks like a launcher over the same ol' same ol'
- manonthestreet0
I would say that this really 'needs' to be a success for microsoft and that it was developed with this in mind. If it should fail along the lines of 'vista' they have uncorrectable problems.
- nocomply0
Windows 8?! Pffffffftt...... I've been running it for months now on the freely-available consumer preview.
It's actually not bad, but I spent 99% of my time in the desktop mode and skip past all of those pretty tiles immediately after the system boots. That whole "metro" interface is really optimized for tablets, which simply aren't productive devices for me to work on.
For those who haven't experienced it yet, Windows 8 is really a split-personality OS: There's the metro half and the desktop half... the desktop being more of a continuation of Windows 7.
- More feedback please! Pro's Con's?fyoucher1
- Metro on a desktop is for the 80% of people who never use more than Word, email and browser.ETM
- For them, it's great. For the content creators and gamers, you skip to desktop. I am not bothered.ETM
- Well, other than not having an option to boot directly into desktop.ETM
- monospaced0
@nocomply, thanks for that insight. I was really hoping for further integration of this UI into the Desktop, even if just aesthetically.
- I think we'll need to wait for Windows 9 for this. Metro and desktop seem very separate for now.nocomply
- randommail0
Great, a more intrusive way for games, photos, apps, music, videos, chat, email, messaging.
FFS I hate it all.
Just give me something to run Adobe CS and Chrome. That is all I want to pay for.
- kalkal0
- The old purple pallet was much better imokalkal
- FAILpopfodders
- kalkal0
- It's a preview for devs, it's not even beta.zarkonite
- I understand that but the ribbon in these images is how it's already been seen in other appskalkal
- What I mean is, I hope it gets developed even more to fit with the new UIkalkal
- same here, they will be going through another 6months of revisions so the odds are good =)zarkonite
- FAILpopfodders
- deathboy0
the metro thing is the windows key. the rest of the OS is like 7. seems pretty quick, and i like that they got rid of the aero glass and went with a much simpler UI default look. im not exactly sure how much faster or if i'll even use metro that much
- kalkal0
My biggest issue with the whole thing is that Microsoft wants to push the new 'immersive ui'.
OK, so this version still has the standard desktop but perhaps they would like to cull it by windows 9.
If that happens I don't see how more complex apps like those of adobe or 3D modelling and stuff like that will fit into this new UI paradigm...
- orpkoobcam20
the font is too light on windows 8. looks weak, frail and shody. just like a dell.
- monkeyshine0
More integration will come as more apps transition over to Win8. I see this as similar to the pains around OSX when they had to bridge two worlds between OS9 and X for a while.