[Pic] Windows 8 "Metro UI" summed up in 1 pic


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so what do you think about 8 neo?

I REALLY hope that Microsoft has only demonstrated what Windows 8 means to Tablets, and the rest comes later; because the desktop isn't dead yet and Microsoft have a history of being wrong about making bold predictions and assumptions like that.

I have it on a Virtual Machine and it is far from useful for a desktop imo, I won't be using it as a "main OS" in it's current state anyway.

I CAN see the appeal it will have on touch devices though.

Basically sums up my little look.

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I REALLY hope that Microsoft has only demonstrated what Windows 8 means to Tablets

Microsoft made it very clear that what you people from Neowin keep calling the "tablet interface" will be the default interface across all devices, including traditional desktops and notebooks.

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Microsoft made it very clear that what you people from Neowin keep calling the "tablet interface" will be the default interface across all devices, including traditional desktops and notebooks.

The Start screen is designed with tablets (touch devices) in mind though, it isn't very good on a desktop point and click PC at all.

It basically turns it into a giant Windows Phone 7?

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I REALLY hope that Microsoft has only demonstrated what Windows 8 means to Tablets, and the rest comes later; because the desktop isn't dead yet and Microsoft have a history of being wrong about making bold predictions and assumptions like that.

I have it on a Virtual Machine and it is far from useful for a desktop imo, I won't be using it as a "main OS" in it's current state anyway.

I CAN see the appeal it will have on touch devices though.

Basically sums up my little look.

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I REALLY hope that Microsoft has only demonstrated what Windows 8 means to Tablets, and the rest comes later; because the desktop isn't dead yet and Microsoft have a history of being wrong about making bold predictions and assumptions like that.

I have it on a Virtual Machine and it is far from useful for a desktop imo, I won't be using it as a "main OS" in it's current state anyway.

I CAN see the appeal it will have on touch devices though.

Basically sums up my little look.

I reluctantly admit to the title of 'MS fanboi', and even I agree with you.

I like some of the visuals in Win8 (and I've loved Metro as a design concept ever since I first installed the Zune software), but I'm not seeing any real technical enhancement of the OS yet. Certainly not enough to merit a migration, and Sinofsky can tell us until he's blue in the face that "it works with a mouse and keyboard!", but that's not going to change the fact that for a conventional PC, while it might work, it doesn't improve anything.

I'm not anti-progress. I've loved the ribbon interface since it appeared in Office 07, understand the design principles behind it, and agree that it improves navigation overall. Replacing the Start Menu completely for non-touch devices is a step backward, though.

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Have you timed how fast it takes to boot from cold? Really impressive ....

I do think it's not an intuitive interface for a desktop PC. It really is geared up for tablet / touch screen devices. I don't think what we're seeing with the dev preview is anywhere near what we'll see with Beta 1. There is going to have to be support for the standard desktop. But I'm mightily impressed with the speed of the OS in general - from install to general usage.

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I have sort of begun understanding the tiles now

Absent mindedly I wanted to open WINVER to check the timebomb, being used to how to open it on 7, I wasnt looking at the screen, I just clicked start > typed WINVER and hit enter

And guess what, it did exactly the same thing 7 and Vista would do, opened WINVER

So that kinda gave me the new mindset not to look at the tiles as "Uh Oh, a new UI to learn" but just that it is a huge start menu

Clicking the Desktop Tile gives you everything 7 does, and clicking the start menu just opens a great bit massively advanced and customizable start menu

Not a whole new UI

Anyway, thats how I see it now, makes using 8 much easier now

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