Creating the Windows 8 User Experience
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- 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
- MrT0
This makes me want to retreat to a cabin in the woods and weep.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- monkeyshine0
Sublocked, that's an interesting perspective. I think that new technology is providing opportunities for more focused content. If that's true, this is a good thing for content providers. How many clients have you had who want websites but don't even consider content until the end...I'm hoping technology forces us to clarify the message before determining the medium.
- Very true - but still, where are we going to be creating this content?sublocked
- ukit20
monkeyshine, do you end up using the apps a lot? Or mostly regular desktop?
- I use the apps more but this is also not my main work machine.monkeyshine
- sublocked0
^ go get a typewriter, unibomber
- 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
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
- 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
- monospaced0
This just points out how much Windows DIDN'T change until Vista/7.
- 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.
- drgs0
Windows NT 4.0 was my favorite OS
- animatedgif0
^ Metro app development free, regular desktop app development $500.