Microsoft, THIS is what Metro UI on Desktop Should Look Like! Community

[giannisgx89]

This looks too much metro imo. Microsoft need to bring a completely new design idea for windows

[tsupersonic]

That looks atrocious! The color schemes don't fit, and contrast (everything blends in).

[Ci7]

People that talk about the icons needing to be changed, they're doing it, we'll see more as we get closer to RTM. We don't know how new or old that build is at this point. Sure it's post-RP but the RP has been out for a bit already.

let hope they fix icon chrome size

they look **** ugly in start screen

[blachole]

I don't know why, but I feel like Microsoft is taking huge steps backwards with all of this metro GUI.

[anidais]

Here's an article with some new non-watermarked screenshots of the new theme:

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secrets-desktop-theme-143447

[Mike Frett]

Yes it's awesome to finally have an updated version of Windows 2.0. :rolleyes: Actually curious how this 'new' GUI fits in with recent news that the Gov. has moles planted in Microsoft, which IS a reason to ditch Microsofts products.

[Kyang]

Lol, this looks nearly identical. The only changes are that the icons are different and the border is gone.

Looks good overall.

[neufuse Veteran]

Yes it's awesome to finally have an updated version of Windows 2.0. :rolleyes: Actually curious how this 'new' GUI fits in with recent news that the Gov. has moles planted in Microsoft, which IS a reason to ditch Microsofts products.

recent news? wow welcome to the 1990s... everyones known that MS and the gov works together since then on "things"

[Pikey]

Well, Microsoft, from what we have seen so far, almost no one is happy with what you are doing with the desktop ...

Well , that first statement is a bit daft to start with ... almost no one??

.. as for the design , no thanks , not for me.

[psreloaded]

I do agree that I like glass a lot and they should have kept it in some form. Atleast the aero inetrface could have been provided as an option.

[myxomatosis]

I'm not a big "Metro" fan, but I gotta agree.. this is 100 times better than the crap Microsoft will release.

I like the "close", "minimize" and "maximize" buttons... You want to go Metro Microsoft? Do it properly or keep Aero for God's sake!!!

Poor us, Windows users... lol

[+pmrd Subscriber²]

I prefer what Microsoft did, this is just awful

[Nazmus Shakib Khandaker]

Just for your information, I hate the Windows 7 Aero interface. I like the metro UI and the digitally authentic concept. But the desktop itself looks ugly, and I really hope MS can make the desktop look beautiful using the metro design concept.

[_neutrino Veteran]

like the design however, its too bright for me.

[remixedcat]

Well the actual UI isn't far off that. Probably will be refined even further till the final product is released

we still have windows 98 era icons in windows 7/2008R2.

[Dashel]

I think I posted elsewhere but at least Win8 should be good for Neowin, with the death of Aero we'll actually need themes again. Good work Zain. There are lots of great concepts floating around.

[blachole]

we still have windows 98 era icons in windows 7/2008R2.

Yuk, 98's icons were really bad. Personally most icons on Windows I can't stand. Ever since I started using OSX, I fell in love with the graphics on that side of the fence.

[remixedcat]

Yuk, 98's icons were really bad. Personally most icons on Windows I can't stand. Ever since I started using OSX, I fell in love with the graphics on that side of the fence.

Has anyone found any dated icons in OSX????

[Quillz]

Has anyone found any dated icons in OSX????

Up until Mountain Lion, the camera icon for taking screenshots was lifted straight out of NeXTstep. And it took until Lion for the original Aqua-style widgets to be retired.

Beyond that, no, Mac OS X doesn't seem to have many legacy icons, but that's because it was a completely new code base from the classic Mac OS.

[MorganX]

Yeah, nice. I could live with that. Don't know what the hell is going on with Microsoft and Metro right now. Billion dollars and dudes in online forums produce better concepts. Yeah, I have an issue with that. Something is really wrong at MS in the UI/Graphic Design areas.

[contextfree]

Making a mockup is nothing like making an actual product with huge compatibility constraints. There were plenty of cool looking mockups made internally at Microsoft as well, believe me.

[Kyang]

I'm not a big "Metro" fan, but I gotta agree.. this is 100 times better than the crap Microsoft will release.

I like the "close", "minimize" and "maximize" buttons... You want to go Metro Microsoft? Do it properly or keep Aero for God's sake!!!

Just asking, take a look at the real one again. The window controls in this mockup are exactly what MS did in the real thing.

[LAMj]

Like it overall, but border need to be thicker. That 1px blue border just degrade the whole design tenfold.

Here's a visual theme I'm currently using. I hoped that MS could use it, but sadly not :(

[mdtaUK]

Microsoft are limited in the amount they can change without potentially breaking older apps. Also without window borders it because a lot more difficult to use touch to resize them.

I would like to be able to change the accent colour, and have it effect icons, and the status bar, taskbar etc Not sure if this would be possible with the theme system as it is.

The Icons need to be much more Metro-fied, just look at Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013

[Gaffney]

I like the way the desktop UI is going but I hope for the final release they keep on making it more metro and remove the non-metro elements, mainly the icons.