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The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
- NooneAtAll3 4mo agohttps://xkcd.com/3089/ https://xkcd.com/3089/
- bee_rider 4mo agoI sort of like the term “early Modern” in history. Putting the “early modern” period 250 years ago causes us to reflect on how much life has changed over that time, which is useful because it’s so tempting to imagine what life was like during the Renaissance or Middle Ages. Of course, every period has massive change, so the experiences of people on either end of a period are as different as somebody in the early modern and… actual modern… eras!
- LarryDarrell 4mo agoThey were so busy trying to create modern that they forgot what made things classic.
- akikoo 4mo agoThe solution to Windows 8 UI issues was aptly named, Classic Shell
- kgwxd 4mo ago"Modern" = something that ruins perfectly good stuff in the never ending pursuit of "progress". UI doesn't need to change every few years. It should have stopped changing almost 30 years ago.
- jan_Sate 4mo agoThis. I don't see the point of constantly changing UI as an end-user. The old one just work. It works perfectly. Now that you changed it and thing breaks. :|
- mx7zysuj4xew 4mo agoIt's still broken to this day
- BoxOfRain 4mo ago> [UI] should have stopped changing almost 30 years ago In some ways it did, modern CLIs haven't changed that much fundamentally from their older counterparts. You can do more things but someone using a CLI 30 years ago wouldn't be phased by modern ones; the interaction model has barely changed. They're all emulating the video terminals of yore too, which themselves were descended from even older teletypewriters.
- excalibur 4mo agoWhen you put "modern" or "new" into the name of a thing, you're basically announcing to the world that it was designed for the short term, and when it is no longer new it will no longer be relevant.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoAdding "fast" is similarly fun, it's probably true when you came up with it, probably won't be true in the future anymore.
- sfsbebbgbx 4mo agoAs is ”simple”.
- usui 4mo agoWhat do you mean? Fast Ethernet is fast, and it'll stay that way forever! It's in the name! 100 Mbit/s!
- deburo 4mo agoOr USB: - USB 2.0: High-Speed USB - USB 3.0: Super-Speed USB The marketing names are often deficient, but at least there's a clear version number attached to it. Microsoft doesn't like version numbers at all.
- extraduder_ire 4mo agoI do find it funny how Full-Speed USB is 12 Mbit/s.
- nailer 4mo agoNo. Modern like 1950's modern. Unadorned, functional. 1900s: Noveau - plant shapes. 1940s: deco - geometry. Windows XP: gradients, color. Windows Vista: semitransparency. 1950s, Windows 8: 'modern' - strip away unnecessary decoration.
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- arethuza 4mo agoMy name for the Windows 11 experience is "Linux Mint"... ;-)
- phreack 4mo agoI spell it KDE but it might be regional variance (:
- mx7zysuj4xew 4mo ago[flagged]
- idicdjicjdjd 4mo agoYou would, wouldn’t you?
- usermac 4mo agoA bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
- copperx 4mo agoAnd the Windows Phone 7 had a hard realtime kernel!
- tonyrice 4mo agoSame here. I had a window's phone at some point. Would have loved it with a stylus.
- cenamus 4mo agoDid that have any real-world effects/benefits? I think you could build most Linux desktops with RT enabled, but I don't think you'd gain anything UX related
- joe_mamba 4mo agoSame for me. Windows Phone was super smooth even on budget phones with 1GB/512MB of RAM while Android would have been choppy as hell on such hardware. Also, the Windows 8 tablet mode had better touch and swipe UX than the current Windows 11 when put in tablet mode. What a joke Microslop has become. Nadella needs to clean house or step down. The only thing he executed well was the cloud/hyperscaler side of the business because he caught the period when everything was moving to the cloud and MS was well positioned to take advantage of that as big companies were already invested into the on-prem MS ecosystem, but on the consumer facing side he fumbled everything, all consumer products are worse than how they were under Balmer: Windows - trash, Office - trash, Xbox - trash, Bing - trash, Copilot - trash.
- RattlesnakeJake 4mo agoI had a Lumia with 512MB of RAM. The OS ran great, but the web outpaced it. I couldn't open a lot of JS-heavy sites without Internet Explorer crashing.
- nailer 4mo agoThe final name was also called Modern. I know this person worked on Windows 8, but as a member of the public we definitely knew the Windows 8 UI was called 'Modern'.
- ux266478 4mo agoHot take: I liked Windows 8. It used less memory than Windows 7, increased battery life, the file manager and task manager were much improved, I could mount ISOs without third party software, among other things. In truth, I didn't even mind the start screen. And I certainly liked Metro as a UI paradigm much more than Aero. Of course it was still Windows at the end of the day, but 8.1 was my last Windows. The laptop I ran it on is slowly bitrotting in a storage locker somewhere on the other end of the country. I didn't like the look of Windows 10, several aspects of it were hard dealbreakers, so I never swapped to it. Eventually I just changed over to using Linux as my primary OS and haven't really looked back.
- havblue 4mo agoI was one of the few people that thought people would like it. That is, why shouldn't it be better to have a bunch of tiles on your desktop that have the most important information and then you choose the one you really want to concentrate on full screen? Well, of course the problem is you aren't using a tablet. It's trying to fix something that never needed to be fixed. But yes, Linux is great now and most people on the site can easily debug potential problems they run into on it and not look back.
- trollbridge 4mo agoIt also suffered from a lack of relevant applications. The apps I used were a terminal emulator, a web browser, Word, Excel, Project, and a few other old Win32 type apps - none of which were going to become "modern" apps in any useful way.
- BoxOfRain 4mo agoMy converse hot take is that I actually really liked Aero, I've always had a thing for translucent UI elements and glowing things.
- trollbridge 4mo agoI ran Windows 8 and the 8.1 on a Surface Pro 2 for about two years as my daily driver. It was great for travelling with since it was so lightweight and easy to use in cramped airplane seats. However, I never bothered using any of the "modern" applications at all. Windows 10 was certainly an improvement.
- mr_toad 4mo agoI read somewhere that the visual design of Windows 8 was based on the works of Mondrian, because they wanted a design that didn’t just look like the Swiss School that Apple had adopted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl I don’t know if the idea of calling Windows 8 modern stemmed from that, or if they decided to pick Mondrian having already decided to go with modern.
- sixothree 4mo agoI thought Metro was appropriate. As in, the name fit the design style.
- bikuto77 4mo agoI wonder if they also made a modern system to handle 'hosts'.
- ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago> The ListView control? It started out with the more tedious name “modern collection control”, which got shortened to “MoCo.” A missed opportunity to call it "MoCoCo" which, if you ask me, has more flare and personality to it. What a waste :/
- caryme 4mo agoCan confirm, I worked on MoPho. It was a weird time.
- dismalaf 4mo agoHonestly, the "modern" UI (Live tiles) was unironically the best part of Windows 8.