Could this be the new UI for Windows 8?
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Yes, but.... ...whose?:~
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Oh god I hope not. Ha, I'm used to using good old 80x25 text mode :)
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I prefer my text mode in Consolas 12pt Bold, at 160x300.
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I doubt it could possibly be. The whole idea of using colour coding is a UI no-no; it could completely throw the whole colour blindness issue into disarray for users.
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Gawd, I hope not! Microsoft has completely lost touch with the computer-using public.
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I'm quite sure the Bubbles are not a major part of the OS, but the gesture stuff with the phone is impressive for a household PC/Media server.
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Ridiculous. I hope Apple buys them pretty soon to stop their insanity.
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If Apple was the one to demo this as the new UI on the iPad3, we would never hear the end about how innovative and awesome it is, and how nobody else can ever do what Apple does. Or some other garbage. Is for this UI as W8? Give me a break. It's amazing what people will read into things. At best (worst?), aspects of this project will end up as an app that runs on W8, but there is no way this is the main W8 desktop. Microsoft Research is always pushing the envelope. It's their job. How many times have you looked at a concept car and thought... what the hell are they thinking? It's the same thing with Microsoft Research. W8 will look like W7 will look like Vista will look like XP will look like 2000 will look like 98 will look like 95 will look like 3.1. What will be different are subtle aspects of the UI and a slightly different chrome and probably a lot more tablet friendliness.
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If Apple was the one to demo this as the new UI on the iPad3, we would never hear the end about how innovative and awesome it is, and how nobody else can ever do what Apple does. Or some other garbage. Is for this UI as W8? Give me a break. It's amazing what people will read into things. At best (worst?), aspects of this project will end up as an app that runs on W8, but there is no way this is the main W8 desktop. Microsoft Research is always pushing the envelope. It's their job. How many times have you looked at a concept car and thought... what the hell are they thinking? It's the same thing with Microsoft Research. W8 will look like W7 will look like Vista will look like XP will look like 2000 will look like 98 will look like 95 will look like 3.1. What will be different are subtle aspects of the UI and a slightly different chrome and probably a lot more tablet friendliness.
Thats the only sensible reply in the whole thread. Forget MS, I dont know where do these so called journalists/bloggers get their ideas from. Ex-Applites maybe..
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I am constantly amazed at how willing people are to look at something and immediately discard it. As I read through the responses here, so many are negative. Is this a production UI? Absolutely not! But, are there some things in here that are worth exploring and moving ahead? Probably. Microsoft is consistently criticized for not coming out with innovative products, but then when they try something new all they hear is disdain. C'mon - give good feedback on both the things you like and the things you don't. I'd want the same.
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If Apple was the one to demo this as the new UI on the iPad3, we would never hear the end about how innovative and awesome it is, and how nobody else can ever do what Apple does. Or some other garbage. Is for this UI as W8? Give me a break. It's amazing what people will read into things. At best (worst?), aspects of this project will end up as an app that runs on W8, but there is no way this is the main W8 desktop. Microsoft Research is always pushing the envelope. It's their job. How many times have you looked at a concept car and thought... what the hell are they thinking? It's the same thing with Microsoft Research. W8 will look like W7 will look like Vista will look like XP will look like 2000 will look like 98 will look like 95 will look like 3.1. What will be different are subtle aspects of the UI and a slightly different chrome and probably a lot more tablet friendliness.
Bravo! Take a small bow for organizing my "bubbly" thoughts about this whole thing. You have saved me hours and hours of spell checking! :laugh:
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I am constantly amazed at how willing people are to look at something and immediately discard it. As I read through the responses here, so many are negative. Is this a production UI? Absolutely not! But, are there some things in here that are worth exploring and moving ahead? Probably. Microsoft is consistently criticized for not coming out with innovative products, but then when they try something new all they hear is disdain. C'mon - give good feedback on both the things you like and the things you don't. I'd want the same.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
The point, or one of them anyway, of putting this up is so that people can comment on it in whatever way they think suitable. The fact that many of them were negative is evidence of not much more than that they were the only ones that considered it worth commenting on. If there were things about it that you liked then you should post those comments, rather than criticising the opinions of others.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Pretty sure ppl would be applauding and wow-ing if this came from Apple! Your -ve votes can follow now...!
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Pretty sure ppl would be applauding and wow-ing if this came from Apple! Your -ve votes can follow now...!
No sir! Not I. It is not the company, it is the GUI that I do not like.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I prefer my text mode in Consolas 12pt Bold, at 160x300.
DejaVu Sans Mono pixelsize=12 for me. Keep my bubbles within my beverage of choice.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Microsoft has completely lost touch with the computer-using public.
I totally agree. They just 'don't get' Tablets and now this. X|
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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No sir! Not I. It is not the company, it is the GUI that I do not like.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Me neither... but I was alluding to the fact that the perspective changes when we look at one company's offering vs. other (may be not in your case but in general). There are horrible things about the GUI in a Mac or any other Apple product but one seldom points them out... There seems to be a hate MS, love Apple/Google/Facebook wave going on around... (not that MS didn't have an hand in creating the wave in the first place)...
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Not sure about W8, but that's got Xbox written all over it... Dan
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I do hope not.[^] Purely from the visual aspect, I find it too busy for my tired old eyes. Someone has to start these things off so, has Microsoft's bubble finally burst?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I doubt it could possibly be. The whole idea of using colour coding is a UI no-no; it could completely throw the whole colour blindness issue into disarray for users.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
I was about to suggest using different primitves rather than colors, e. g. squares, triangles and circles. But I suppose then the danger would be too big for some toddler to then take a hammer and try to hammer the red triangle into the green (circular) bin under the desk ;) Seriously, I don't know what kinds of color blindnesses exist (beyond red-green), but I suspect it would be possible to customize the color scheme to something that would be discernible to any color-blind person. Still, I agree that the 'bubble' form and color+size coding may not be the best aproach. Size is probably ok, but what size really indicates is distance - so why not go all the way and make a 3D OS? There's so many more properties and relations you could encode using 3D UI elements and their relative positions. No need to use color-coding at all.
