Windows 8 User Interface revealed!

[NeoVamp]

For some reason I'm thinking Star Trek TNG when i see that.

[JDB]

sweet jesus, has nobody realised this is just a LAYER built on top? Just like media center is a layer. The OS we all know is still there.

[SpaceFlea]

Salty Jesus, we have, we just like to complain. It makes us feel better, especially when others complain too, then we don't feel alone in the world.

[Kamahl]

They copied apple again, since Lion is pretty much Snow Leopard + iOS lol. Still, pretty cool, and usable in tablets.

[Barone]

I still prefer any OS that can provide me a beautiful Win9x-like interface.

e-Inclusion is now brain-Exclusion.
There are so many fancy devices and cute interfaces already! And all that garbage just to share Photoshop'ed photos, some uncultured short phrases, tons of uninspired noisy pieces of MP3 or a new YouTube's stupid mega-hit...

Oh, just give me a good console, a plain text editor and some gray windows...
Minimum connectivity, please, 'cause I'd like to search for some information without being obligated to have a video conference with my thousands and thousands of friends that I never met!

[Flygon]

Here's to sticking with Windows 7 and completely ignoring the next OS release!

I'm serious, by the way. It worked with Vista! People stuck with XP and Microsoft took notice.

[MN12BIRD]

They have to design something more friendly on tablets because Windows 7 on a small touch screen sucks ass right now and we know Tablets aren't going anywhere soon.

[snume]

They copied apple again, since Lion is pretty much Snow Leopard + iOS lol. Still, pretty cool, and usable in tablets.

Have you actually SEEN Lion?

How is this:



Copying this:



The Windows 8 desktop looks like it's perfect for the home user. I would love to have a decently powered PC in the Family room and/or kitchen with this on it. It'll be an all-in-one information station that you can still sit down to and do some serious computing with, which an iPad, netbook or most other tablets typically aren't.

I am guessing this will be what the Home version will be typically set up like and the Professional version will typically be set up to use the more Classic windows UI. Let's face it, Windows has always been a more work friendly UI and now Microsoft wants to make it more Home User friendly. Seems like a no brainer.

Steven Sinofsky said a couple of important things about Win 8. He says that it’s important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. “The mouse and the keyboard aren’t evil. They’re just tools … And they have their uses.”

“Your finger doesn’t have the resolution to manipulate, say, Photoshop. There are a number of applications that require the greater precision offered by the mouse. … So I think that one of things that’s intriguing is that if you have a Windows tablet and then you plug a keyboard into it it becomes a Windows laptop.”

And Julie Larsen-Green had answers to 2 interesting questions.

Q: How is Windows 8 different from TouchSmart? Isn’t this just a layer on top of Windows?

Larsen-Green is adamant. It’s not a layer. It’s Windows. It’s a seamless experience, she adds noting that you can still access the file system and other core systems.

Q: Could an OEM make a tablet in which the user would never see “traditional” Windows?

Larsen-Green: You can’t turn the desktop off. You can choose never to go there… but it’s always there. Likewise, by the way, you can’t really turn off the new Windows. it IS the start screen.

It's still a whole year away and it will be beta tested and shown to countless focus groups who you know have already been involved in getting to this stage.

We have to remember, this forum is full of Power Users and I would be willing to bet we make up a minority of the total user base of PC's. They aren't ditching the old Windows, they're ADDING to it and, IMHO, IMPROVING it for the large majority of users.

But, everyone's entitled to their opinion.

[Kamahl]

Have you actually SEEN Lion?

How is this:



Copying this:

First Image: Windows 7 with the interface of windows phone 7 on top plus additional glue to make them integrate well.
Second Image: Mac OSX Snow Leopard with the interface of iOS on top plus additional glue to make them integrate well.

How are they not the same idea?

[snume]

I will grant you they are the in principle the same idea, but I would argue that it's more likely the two executions were developed concurrently, with neither one being first and then copied.

To the best on my knowledge, migrating the Metro UI to Windows 8 has been in the works for over a year. I'm not sure when the plan to make OSX Lion have the iOS UI was first even hinted at let alone revealed and knowing Apple's propensity to keeping their plans secret I would guess it was not that far back.

In either case, I was referring to how anyone could look at the Windows 8 GUI and at the OSX Lion UI and even think one was a copy of the other. I agree the concept is the same, but you'd have a hard time convincing me who came up with the idea first and I'll bet we'd definitely disagree as to who has the better execution

[Rusty Venture]

The question needs to be "which interface is easier to use" not "who came up with it first".

[j_factor]

“Your finger doesn’t have the resolution to manipulate, say, Photoshop. There are a number of applications that require the greater precision offered by the mouse. … So I think that one of things that’s intriguing is that if you have a Windows tablet and then you plug a keyboard into it it becomes a Windows laptop.”

Aren't there already tablets that do that?

[old man]

I don't like finger prints on shit I'm trying to look at.

[TmEE]

I don't like finger prints on shit I'm trying to look at.

QFT

[Kamahl]

I don't like finger prints on shit I'm trying to look at.

I don't mind if it's a phone, but I do mind if it's something where I'm trying to get work done, so rep for you .

EDIT: Well, IMO, the Windows Phone 7 interface is much cooler than iOS, the whole "tiles displaying quick info" thing is awesome. Lion also has an app launcher like iOS but also the dock... kinda redundant, they should change the way the dock works if they're gonna do that.

As far as easier to use, I'd have to go with iOS, it's less of a paradigm shift so it really won't change the way people do things, it just makes them faster.