Windows 8 desktop UI

Forum thread started by ribbonz on Sun, 2011-09-11 15:29

another MS vid -- introducing Windows 8 new desktop UI:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

Wow. That is terrible.

I guess people who stare at their cell phone all day long will like this. I hate it.

If I get stuck with a Windows 8 machine at some point in the future, I hope that there's an option to use a "classic" UI and not this dumbed-down "playskool" interface.

Comments

Re: Windows 8 desktop UI

by ribbonz - 2011-09-18 19:28

And I just now came across this article on OSNews:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25158/Crossing_the_Rubicon_Microsoft_Lays_Wi...

Yuk.

I pretty much hate the Metro UI. The desktop interface is not broken and does not need to be replaced. At least not for me. But maybe I'm a dying breed -- a dinosaur.

Re: Windows 8 desktop UI

by cb88 - 2011-09-19 05:06

Metro and the classic mode will coexist... in windows 8 each runs in a separate VM.

Also Metro is geared toward tablets from what I understand. For Haiku R2 it should probably be considered how to make apps operate well on both tablet and classic interfaces without lots of rewriting code. By that I mean buttons shuold be finger friendly in tablet mode and out of the way in desktop mode.. and so on.

Haiku can already do a tablet interface most likely... BeIA had one already back in the day.

Re: Windows 8 desktop UI

by DiscipleOfDante - 2012-04-15 01:59

Use the program ViStart and windows 8 becomes an awesome environment to use.