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Seems like Win8 was them trying to push the mobile style UIs onto people even though they were using a Desktop/Laptop. I remember in Win8, the calculator would

Seems like Win8 was them trying to push the mobile style UIs onto people even though they were using a Desktop/Laptop. I remember in Win8, the calculator would take up the whole screen, similar to the way it does on an IPhone. I could never understand how such a usability atrocity got past Redmond.

Lammy 6y ago
https://www.pcworld.com/article/257840/microsoft_announces_new_surface_tablet_pc.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/257840/microsoft_announces_n...
ineedasername 6y ago
I think MS misread ipad popularity and the resulting "tablet computing" trend as a tidal shift to touch-based interfaces as the emerging "new normal".
- nmfisher 6y ago
  It kind of made sense at the time, given the popularity of the Surface. The trend certainly seemed to be towards smaller form-factor, lower-power devices that sat nicely on the spectrum between a tablet and laptop. Of course, that didn't mean they needed to completely overhaul the desktop experience though.
  - birdyrooster 6y ago
    This is the sort of wisdom that leads a company to create macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The recognition that some things are too dissimilar to ship in the same box.
    - lostmsu 6y ago
      Meh. I still think that is a mistake. Windows Mobile lost because it was late to market, and was not designed well the first two times. Windows Mobile 10 was good, so was ability to develop for desktop, mobile and Xbox with one codebase. IMO Microsoft shut it down when it actually was becoming awesome. Maybe Windows 10 ARM64 will still come back to phones though.