Will the Windows 8 UI end the same way as WinFS? [modified]

[Dario Solera]

Dan Neely wrote:

Trying to drive a touch UI with a mouse will be as much fail as a mouse UI with a finger tip.

Yes, that's true.

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[Single Step Debugger]

I think it will be entirely 3D like in the first Jurassic Park's command room – the folders look like apartment blocks in a city and all… :-D

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[Dan Mos]

I really like it. And I know that there will be an option(Metro or normal) for the full version. There will be metro/touch only for mobile devices but both options for full win8 => notebooks and desktops. Else I would have hated it. :)

All the best, Dan

[Dan Mos]

Deyan Georgiev wrote:

the folders look like apartment blocks in a city

And they will contain LiquidNitro! Hail Metro! :-D

All the best, Dan

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

It can't. WinFS was nothing but a bunch of specs and early prototypes. Win8 UI is already coded and runs. Now, if you are asking whether it is going to be accepted by the users, I have no idea.

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[Andy Brummer]

Yeah, it's interesting given this talk: The future of touch[^] The premise was that we are still in an early phase of understanding touch interfaces and are mostly applying touch to very mouse oriented interfaces. A lot of the examples they gave for full touch interfaces were more like a combination of kinect and surface and naturally using both hands for a combination of rough and fine manipulation of objects. They also talked a bit about how touch is really just one part of the bigger motion sensing picture. The Win8 UI seems very tablet oriented though. Of course, this is also a way to scratch the back of hardware vendors and help drive sales of new touch monitors.

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[Dario Solera]

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

It can't.

I really hope so. WinFS had pretty good prototypes too. I mean, it worked, but it was probably too complex to be useful for normal users.

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[Dan Neely]

But that was a unix system. :laugh:

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[Henry Minute]

Courtesy of the 'Kinnel we'll all be using 3D gestures by the time Weight/Wait comes out, thus obviating the need to actually touch the screen. An intense coding session will look something like this[^] (note the correct use of the mouse).

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Dan Neely wrote:

But that was a unix system

was there one for the guys who still had their popsicles, too?

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