Windows 8
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- akrok0
needs to pop more. how's about 73 dpi.
- drgs0
looks half-finished
- lvl_130
kill that frivolous background.
- orrinward20
I used it for a while on my old tablet and it was nice. Just an overlay and still very much a desktop OS with a touch-enabled wrapper but it was nice.
- utopian0
The Windows OS will catch up sooner or later to the Apple OS in a few more years, give or take a few years!
- I like your outlook.d_rek
- Windows->Mac -8 years.ArmandoEstrada
- zoozoo0
this windows 8 concept looks good.
they should try a linux skin
- prophetone0
i like it.
- Have you tried the latest build?Andrew_D
- I haven't but I've been meaning to, the v8 UI is finally acceptable in my eyesprophetone
- Andrew_D0
We work with MS quite a bit and I was at their HQ up here in Canada for some info sessions and it's pretty great on touch screen. Track pad & mouse not so much (obviously), but they're banking on people buying these type of PC's:
- Nice idea, but touch screen's like this'll never catch on because you cover what you're trying to point to. Fundamentals.mikotondria3
- I don't follow your logic, miko? Worked pretty good on a wall mounted screen.Andrew_D
- cant imagine working with the arm lifted to touch that screen during hours...benfal99
- it's more like a giant ipad. not a work machine.akrok
- inteliboy0
Looks great and refreshing. It seems MS is the only company that are doing there own thing (surprisingly) in the portable/OS space and not copying Apple.
- zoozoo0
agrees with intelliboy
- monkeyshine0
Think it looks pretty great. Very forward thinking and maybe it will force Apple to think bigger about their OS.
- zoozoo0
leave apple alone!
i love lion
- ernexbcn0
I will try this on a VM just for curiosity.
- ismith0
Who wants to bet that in a few years when Windows is finally getting a total rewrite, platform independent, blah blah and version 9 has been out– they'll be like "hey, Windows X! That sounds cool!" And as long as nobody mentions cats (depends on whether or not their dungeo– labs give internet access to the developers) it goes through...
- Apple has made 2 big transitions (OS 9 to OS X and PPC to Intel) and went good for themernexbcn
- XPmonospaced
- Windows X
and then reddit will be like hey, I remember when there was Mac os X... nvmismith
- monNom0
^ That's a bit disappointing. I was fully expecting Metro to be a top to bottom restyling of the windows UI. But from that video, it looks more like windows media center (or android) in scope and functionality.
- qoob0
- ernexbcn0
They can't simply let go the desktop yet, the problem Microsoft has as the market leader is a gazillion of legacy software and systems they still have to support, even on new versions.
They might release a new Windows later on that breaks away from all that and is a clean start, they should, or at least for home users the benefits would be great.
- That Windows 8 runs on ARM processors too is interesting though.ernexbcn