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You're still looking at the issue from a developer standpoint. From a client side, all tiles are generally needless clutter. Even a large amount of savvy tile
by rando444 8y ago
You're still looking at the issue from a developer standpoint.
From a client side, all tiles are generally needless clutter.
Even a large amount of savvy tile developers won't resolve the problem of the general mess they create by existing.
The newer desktops that have start menus without tiles finally feels like a step in the right direction.
- WorldMaker 8y agoI hugely disagree, my love of tiles came from being a user first. The tiles were great as a user. Much less clutter than the equivalent widgets and notifications systems on other platforms. With good working tiles, arranged to personal preference, the Notification Area in the Action Center on Windows is a redundant mess by comparison. Tiles gave an opportunity to see a lot of information at a glance, in a much less obtrusive manner than popup push notifications that get swept into a notification drawer. The problem with Tiles wasn't even lack of developers building good Tiles. The problem was Microsoft compromising the vision on them and weakening the Start Screen to appease people that wouldn't adapt to change. (It was also maybe Microsoft not making it easier to set Tiles on Win32 applications, which could have been enabled much sooner.) (I will mourn the Tiles if they go away entirely. Just as I mourn the Charms as being good ideas not fit for this world.)