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As someone who said good riddance to the Windows platform about 10 years ago (for Mac OS 9, which ought to tell you how fed up I was), I have to say that I'm ge
by atacrawl 15y ago
As someone who said good riddance to the Windows platform about 10 years ago (for Mac OS 9, which ought to tell you how fed up I was), I have to say that I'm genuinely excited to see Microsoft coming up with fresh UI conventions, both with Windows Phone and now with Windows 8. They could have gone the Google route and copied iOS, but they didn't. Likewise, they could have gone the Apple route and rested on making modest changes to their existing desktop OS, but again, it looks like they aren't.
- 9999 15y agoI followed a similar path to you (OS 8 was where I joined Apple), and I am also intrigued by some of the ideas presented here (split keyboard for thumbs, good job!). I am a little disappointed that I didn't see any examples of touch interaction on what are traditionally desktop applications though. It's all well and good to champion how tiles improve a weather application, but how will they improve Photoshop or Visual Studio? The premise of an HTML5 and JS based desktop is simultaneously promising and terrifying due to bad memories of the Active Desktop days (and the exploits that brought...).
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- recoiledsnake 15y agoHuh, not sure I follow. Doesn't this look very much like iOS? http://img.tfd.com/cde/_PROGMAN.GIF http://img.tfd.com/cde/_PROGMAN.GIF It's not just a picture replaced by text, those are LIVE tiles, they can be updated to show timely relevant information. Metro is quite innovative, if it came from Apple, we'd be reading Gruber's fawning over here about how chrome-less UIs are a paradigm shifting move by Apple.
- mattraibert 15y agoAndroid has multi-tasking which is a pretty fundamental difference in how the phone behaves -- it seems odd to call it a copy of iOS. It also doesn't look that similar.