Creating the Windows 8 User Experience
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- sublocked
Read this last night. Interesting spin from Microsoft on the history of their OS, and a few explanations about design decisions that went into this release.
What say you, QBN?
- ukit20
The real jump is from Windows 3 to 95...which predates my computer experience
- whippersnappersublocked
- Get off my lawn!!ETM
- wow...animatedgif
- lol...I just didn't use computers back then. Better things to do as a kid.ukit2
- my first computer was a TANDY running windows 1sublocked
- Mine was an 8086 (20 MHZ) running Dos 5. Wait... also had a Commodore Vic 20.ETM
- ZX81 here.
1K ram,mikotondria3
- sublocked0
I guess I really suck @ making QBN topics these days.
- drgs0
Windows NT 4.0 was my favorite OS
- sublocked0
What's your guys take on the win8 metro ui? I kinda like it, and I'm actually a little stoked to create a native app for my service. Seems cool that they support html/js apps built in. Great for web devs.
- monospaced0
This just points out how much Windows DIDN'T change until Vista/7.
- ETM0
I think MS may actually be looking at the bigger picture for consumer driven roles and devices. Mouse driven, will be passable in Metro, but Kinnect assisted will be interesting. I am sure it won't be long before Kinnect is the size of modern webcams and is integrated into monitors and all-in-one computer models. I am sure gestures will become as subtle as on a touch screen device. Rather than large swiping gestures in front of your body, I am sure you could sit and just use a small swipe or flick of your finger. Tracking your eye wouldn't be too hard either as a supplementary input method.
- prophetone0
like sitting in front of an intelligent tv and choosing titles on netflix simply by shrugging and meh'ing...
- Isn't that how you pick a title in Netflix anyway? It's all pretty much crap.ETM
- ukit20
Thought this was kind of funny...is that last sentence a shot at Apple?
"In 2006, Windows Vista substantially changed the visual appearance of Windows, introducing the Aero visual style. Aero gave the appearance of highly-rendered glass, light sources, reflections, and other graphically complex textures in the title bars, taskbar, and other system surfaces. These stylistic elements represented the design sensibilities of the time, reflecting the capabilities of the brand-new digital tools used to create and render them. This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now, but at the time, it was very much en vogue."
- LOL. 15 years after XP they jump on the "faux-realistic materials" bandwagon (late), and then date it.monospaced
- monospaced0
Thought this was kind of funny...is this sentence ignoring OS X?
"Although tablets on other platforms have followed suit, Windows 7 was the first shipping OS to embrace multitouch in the platform."
- The sentence is accurate though. Win 7 shipped with a full suite of multi-touch gestures first.ETM
- Lion was really the official release for multitouch.ETM
- so weird! I was using multi-touch on MBPs back in '08 on an old operating systemmonospaced
- ukit20
Anyway Windows 7 (and even the desktop part of Windows 8) has the same "faux realistic" style so are they saying their current OS is dated and cheesy?
- ukit20
Wonder if Windows 8 will actually be a huge disaster for Microsoft...if you read the comments on that post they are 90% negative
- Could be good. It's actual change that people need to get used to.ETM
- There was mostly bad things to say about both the iPhone and iPad when they were first announced.ETM
- And well, look how they transformed the market. Not saying win 8 will totally transform anything.ETM
- But sometimes interesting change comes with resistance.ETM
- sublocked0
^ Seems like typical MS whiners to me. I have high hopes for it.
- ETM0
Regardless, it's the same old, same old.
MS why don't you try something new? You always copy Apple etc.
Wait, you are trying something new, WTF?
- ukit20
Agreed...people always hate change no matter what
But potential issue could be the weird split between the Metro experience and desktop. Lack of multitasking with Metro apps.
Also the visual design for the desktop isn't exactly impressive:
Having said that I haven't tried Windows 8 yet but those were the issues people kept mentioning.
- ETM0
Desktops are a dying interface. 90% of people only need a browser, email client and a Word Processor. For a file system, those people really only need to store their documents, pictures and music/video files. And when cloud becomes more ubiquitous, your files won't ever exist on your devices. The complexities of a file system will be there and you simply upload/download as needed.
Really personal computers will be nothing but thin clients and true operating systems will be for servers.
- Fucken ay, been saying this for years. We'll just have terminal mentality, and they'll be everywhere. Massive central...mikotondria3
- ..CPUs, fat pipes, rendering split between local interpreter chips and mammoth quantum parallel core networks. Yes.mikotondria3
- MrT0
This makes me want to retreat to a cabin in the woods and weep.
- sublocked0
^ go get a typewriter, unibomber
- i_monk0
^ Task Manager is not a major selling point, yet he talks about it for nearly a quarter of the video. Shouldn't there be something else to talk about?