Will Windows 8 kill win32 API?
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LOL, Ice!
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CodeBubba wrote:
The implication being that Microsoft could not have made a design mistake with Metro? Microsoft too big to make a major mistake? Well, I guess we'll just have to see, eh?
Microsoft makes plenty of mistakes in strategy. Their ability to execute in detail and to nibble away at a problem forever is notable, however.
CodeBubba wrote:
The desktop paradigm as it presently is has such wide market use that there will be tremendous resistance.
I used to think that too, until I went back over the history of the Windows UI, from menu screens and keyboard shortcuts ca mid 1980's pre-windows, to drop-down menus ca 1989, to context menus and the start button ca 1995, to button bars ca 2002, to the much abused ribbon and the de-emphasis of menus ca 2008, to metro's gestures and normally off-screen charms today. Windows is evolving, and metro looks like a logical step in that evolution. We already know people like gestures. I wouldn't bet on lasting resistance to metro. Your mileage may vary. If so, you can step into the Linux vortex and go back in time to the comfortable familiarity of 1995 if you like. Ouch. ;)
SeattleC++ wrote:
I wouldn't bet on lasting resistance to metro. Your mileage may vary. If so, you can step into the Linux vortex and go back in time to the comfortable familiarity of 1995 if you like.
Ouch. ;)LOL! Now let's not get extreme, eh? You know ... I'm not against the concept of Metro as much as I'm annoyed at the way Microsoft implemented it. I realize that touch computing is where it's at right now or I wouldn't own a new iPad and an iPhone 4S. (I went with the iPhone when I saw Metro on the Windows Mobile platform: previously I was all WinMo). The main things that irk me with MS's approach this time is that they are implementing the new approach by mucking up the existing one. All this time we've trended toward more colorful interfaces (chrome if you will) now all-of-a-sudden a reversal back to CGA style graphics. Also ... Microsoft could have developed Win8 so that Metro could run as a subsystem to the desktop instead of the other way around, but they didn't. However, having said all that: I'm not all that worked-up about it. Some people are really getting ANGRY over this whole thing. I'm just mildly annoyed. I think I'd be angry if I were one of Microsoft's partners that they just kicked under the bus with the Surface thing. Someone's gonna get shot over that! ;-) Truth be told, though, it doesn't really matter much to me one way or the other. I develop mostly back-end (intelligence) code and anything I do on the GUI level is to the desktop. My stuff still runs fine in Win8. I just don't see "8" as a need for myself. It just doesn't offer anything that I consider to be an upgrade, that's all. My systems are all very current (i5's and i7's)and Win7 is going to be viable for another 10 years at-least. I'm just going to sit this one out for awhile and observe it. To spend any money retooling would be a waste to me right now. -CB ;-)
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The consumer trend is going mobile with tablet gradually replacing PC. However, so far there has not been a tablet powerful enough to do that. Microsoft surface could be the beginning.
TOMZ_KV
Tomz_KV wrote:
The consumer trend is going mobile with tablet gradually replacing PC.
Fair point, but i don't expect the PC to disappear, they will simply become a niche product (for IT pros).
Tomz_KV wrote:
However, so far there has not been a tablet powerful enough to do that. Microsoft surface could be the beginning.
Perhaps, but i'm not holding my breath, and until i see one surface (no pun intended), i wouldn't change my mind. As a related side note, i believe what is holding tablets to take PCs place is their closed nature and the lack of tools for self hosting (meaning that to develop tools for your tablet, you need a computer, and sometimes the blessing of the plataform owner). :sigh:
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