Modern Design and Evolution: Windows 9 Concept Mixes the Desktop and the Metro UI

labeeman, post: 12467, member: 194 said:

Jack of all trades Master of none.

Still doesn't answer the question. . .

labeeman, post: 12467, member: 194 said:

Jack of all trades Master of none.

Prexactly!

labeeman, post: 12491, member: 194 said:

Win8.X is trying to be master of at least 4 different devices with different capabilities at the same time never will happen in a hundred lifetimes.

It will happen whether some of us want to or not. Microsoft has chosen to move in this direction, and probably won't stop until they have the OS that will work across all platform. It really doesn't matter what you or I want it is what Microsoft wants to do thus the reason they have been pushing forward regardless of what the computing elite want. . .sad to say but that is just what is happening. The same thing happened in the Apple camp at the turn of this century when they came out with OS X. Mac user like myself thought that Apple was trying to force feed us this new OS regardless of how we user felt, thus when you look at where it is today it makes you wonder why people were always whining about the new OS. . .Just human nature. . .:)

Lee, post: 12501, member: 135 said:

It will happen whether some of us want to or not. Microsoft has chosen to move in this direction, and probably won't stop until they have the OS that will work across all platform. It really doesn't matter what you or I want it is what Microsoft wants to do thus the reason they have been pushing forward regardless of what the computing elite want. . .sad to say but that is just what is happening. The same thing happened in the Apple camp at the turn of this century when they came out with OS X. Mac user like myself thought that Apple was trying to force feed us this new OS regardless of how we user felt, thus when you look at where it is today it makes you wonder why people were always whining about the new OS. . .Just human nature. . .:)

And this is also my point about Windows.
Windows 8 is a step up and a step back from Win7.
It's not a horrible OS, and quite user friendly over Desktop/Laptop and Tablet (Surface Pro)
The concepts that are a part of that article, are a better step in the right direction.

The biggest problem is, MS made too big a change with Win8. Again, not a bad change, cause it works perfectly fine on every PC I have. I think we will see some UI changes, and that is good, cause I would not have split the start screen like it is. But, again, that doesn't make the Win8 decision a bad one.

The biggest complaint I see about Win8 and no other complaints about Win8, is the melding of Tablet and Desktop. That's it.
If that is all people have to harp on about Win8, I would say it's pretty dang successful.
If people took the time to actually learn how to use it, instead of going off the deep end about Touch capabilities on Laptop and Desktop that don't have touch, Win8 would be even more successful.

Sorry, but I say it's a pretty petty argument from that side of the camp. Especially when they take zero to very little time to actually learn how to use it properly.