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Please notify me when you're done with tiles, and re-implement the Win 7 Aero UI in Win 10. Microsoft's biggest misstep in mobile was trying to unify the deskt

Please notify me when you're done with tiles, and re-implement the Win 7 Aero UI in Win 10. Microsoft's biggest misstep in mobile was trying to unify the desktop and mobile experience into a weird amalgamation OS that doesn't work or feel right for either. Win 10 is an improvement over 8 but still awful compared to the straightforward, non-confusing Win 7. Apple understands users expect different OSes for iPhones vs Macs.

Mikhail_Edoshin 7y ago
There are some computers that are both tablets and laptops. E.g. Lenovo Helix series. So if it were possible to have interface that suits both these cases or somehow switch between them (but it shouldn't be drastically different), it would be great. This is what Windows is trying to do, I believe.
- listenallyall 7y ago
  So Microsoft's strategy was to sacrifice usability for 90%+ of users in order to build this strange hybrid OS just for Lenovo Helixes, that is worse than its predecessors on desktop, and unable to compete on mobile?
marcoseliziario 7y ago
Functionally, I fail to see how Windows 10 is worse than aero. Aesthetically, Aero is a phenomenal display of bad taste, that we'd all better forget. When I see this kind of comment, I wonder if the commenter has actually used Windows 10 for any non-trivial amount of time.
- listenallyall 7y ago
  And when I see a comment like yours, which just states one person's opinion -- no facts, nothing new -- I wonder, "why did this person waste his time commenting?" Did you think people would read your comment and decide, if marcowhatever likes Windows 10, then I guess my opinion is wrong? Search anything related to Metro vs Aero or Win 7 UI vs Win 10 and it's almost all complaints about the dull, monotone, flat look of Win 10 (a failed unification with the no-longer-existing Windows Phone), or journalists who need to toe the MSFT party line in order to continue to get access to future stories.

Mikhail_Edoshin 7y ago

There are some computers that are both tablets and laptops. E.g. Lenovo Helix series. So if it were possible to have interface that suits both these cases or somehow switch between them (but it shouldn't be drastically different), it would be great. This is what Windows is trying to do, I believe.

listenallyall 7y ago
So Microsoft's strategy was to sacrifice usability for 90%+ of users in order to build this strange hybrid OS just for Lenovo Helixes, that is worse than its predecessors on desktop, and unable to compete on mobile?

marcoseliziario 7y ago

Functionally, I fail to see how Windows 10 is worse than aero. Aesthetically, Aero is a phenomenal display of bad taste, that we'd all better forget. When I see this kind of comment, I wonder if the commenter has actually used Windows 10 for any non-trivial amount of time.

listenallyall 7y ago
And when I see a comment like yours, which just states one person's opinion -- no facts, nothing new -- I wonder, "why did this person waste his time commenting?" Did you think people would read your comment and decide, if marcowhatever likes Windows 10, then I guess my opinion is wrong? Search anything related to Metro vs Aero or Win 7 UI vs Win 10 and it's almost all complaints about the dull, monotone, flat look of Win 10 (a failed unification with the no-longer-existing Windows Phone), or journalists who need to toe the MSFT party line in order to continue to get access to future stories.