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I would have preferred them to work on these new ideas to make them work better. The idea of modern UI was good. The traditional freely movable windows are usu

I would have preferred them to work on these new ideas to make them work better. The idea of modern UI was good. The traditional freely movable windows are usually not using the desktop space very efficiently unless you spend a lot of time positioning them or use some third party utilities and configure them properly. I have a feeling that especially "normal users" very seldom use for example two windows side-by-side - even though this might be good for productivity. The modern UI style was more like a tiling window manager. 8.1 made it possible to split the screen vertically among n applications. It would have been nice to see them explore this further to allow other kind of configurations as well. The main problem with modern UI from my perspective was the lack of application. There was only few modern UI apps available and most of them pretty useless, tiny utilities. Now Office (even Outlook), no Visual Studio etc. A "simple" fix would have been to allow users to run the old applications the same way as modern UI apps.

7952 12y ago
As a tiling window manager it could have been very good. You could have had slots that matched the Windows Phone aspect ratios instead of dividing the screen vertically. The slots could feel like a mobile app whilst the rest of the screen would feel like a normal windows desktop.
Touche 12y ago
They should have gone full-on tiling WM. Make it completely dynamic, as many tiles as you want, vertically or horizontally split.
ASneakyFox 12y ago
I make use of unnaximized Windows all the time. You don't need to see the whole window to use it. For instance when debugging a prism I only need to see the "output" panel portion of my ide window. Some people only use one program at a time. But the win7 system already works well for that. If they want to change how windows work it should be after some testing and exprimentation. Don't just change it to be different.

7952 12y ago

As a tiling window manager it could have been very good. You could have had slots that matched the Windows Phone aspect ratios instead of dividing the screen vertically. The slots could feel like a mobile app whilst the rest of the screen would feel like a normal windows desktop.

Touche 12y ago

They should have gone full-on tiling WM. Make it completely dynamic, as many tiles as you want, vertically or horizontally split.

ASneakyFox 12y ago

I make use of unnaximized Windows all the time. You don't need to see the whole window to use it. For instance when debugging a prism I only need to see the "output" panel portion of my ide window. Some people only use one program at a time. But the win7 system already works well for that. If they want to change how windows work it should be after some testing and exprimentation. Don't just change it to be different.