Introducing Windows 11 • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

_9omd wrote: post #10

kadomony wrote: post #7

I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.

Yeah, it looks like they finally just threw the towel in and admitted that macOS has had a superior design aesthetic, and started heading in the same direction.

The good news is they’re doing that just as apple is fucking it all up, having apparently put iOS designers in charge of macOS.

The bad news is Apple is fucking it all up, having apparently put iOS people in charge of macOS. The new safari looks insanely bad.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by another_kel » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #11

kadomony wrote: post #7

I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.

I agree, but File Explorer seems to be the same ugly mess...

And still lack tabs!

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by Tajnymag » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

Does "free upgrade for eligible PCs" mean there won't be a generally available free upgrade from Win10?

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by saltysallys » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

So the desktop is in the start menu now? Are icons on the desktop deprecated?

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by geocrasher » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

My Primary concern with Windows 11 can be described as follows:

98

- ME

XP

- Vista

7

- 8

10

- 11

Has Microsoft broken the cycle? Time will tell.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by dunnevens » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

kadomony wrote: post #7

I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.

Good news is you can still anchor the taskbar to the left. At least you can within the leaked ISO. Bad news is that the smallest taskbar size is bigger than the current smallest size.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by fasdfefff » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #2

Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8/vista again? What i want from windows is speed . More and more people are going to be using them to work from home, and not on a tablet or a laptop, but on a good old desktop pc, their sales are going up. What's the rationale behind this kind of regression to terrible windows 8? Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look? > app developers can now b…

> App developers can still use our commerce with competitive revenue share of 85/15

But there isn't a perpetual Agreement guaranteeing MS won't ever increase its cut in the future when its store becomes more popular. The Store hasn't yet been terribly successful. Most of my Windows apps are installed outside the MS store: Notepad++, VSCodium, Steam, and so on. So MS will try to get more apps in the Store and then lock down Windows like iOS once it has enough apps, then increase its own cut so that it can transfer wealth from the middle class to billionaire MSFT shareholders, just like AAPL does.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

cnasc wrote: post #23

cblconfederate wrote: post #2

Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8/vista again? What i want from windows is speed . More and more people are going to be using them to work from home, and not on a tablet or a laptop, but on a good old desktop pc, their sales are going up. What's the rationale behind this kind of regression to terrible windows 8? Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look? > app developers can now b…

> Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8 again? Windows 8 distinctly had no rounded corners. The metro design language was quite square

Guessing they’re confusing 8 and Vista? I have no other explanation.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

kadomony wrote: post #7

I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.

I'm not a fan. A centered dock does look pretty, but to me it's not as intuitive as a left-aligned screen. Especially since you would be navigating to the "Start" menu a lot. Getting my mouse bottom left is more natural than "some random offset of dead bottom center".

I can't tell if the icons get larger as you hover. That sort of magnifies this problem, as the start button would shift left as other icons are highlighted.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by imwillofficial » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.”

Steve Jobs Triumph of the Nerds (1996)