Could this be the new UI for Windows 8?
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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.
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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.
March 1, m.... 1 month too early!
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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.
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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.
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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.
Strange UI. Just think, the moving bubbles can also serve as a screen saver preventing burn in. But, with LCD displays, that shouldn't happen anymore. Who knows, can they make one with nature scenes. Have deer, wild horses, and buffalo roaming around with the same information.
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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.
Now we know what BOB was really meant to be - Bubbles On Board