They can change it to whatever as long as it's fully consistent and doesn't have menus from Windows 95. At this point I don't even know if it's possible.
Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
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#12This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons, this is exactly how OSX has the dock configured. Also the system info in the top right. I wonder if the team over at Microsoft is trying to match the look and feel of OSX in order to shorten the gap between the two operating systems and reduce friction of switching between the two.
I think they just have no ideas of their own and cloning macOS is a reasonable default choice.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#13This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons, this is exactly how OSX has the dock configured. Also the system info in the top right. I wonder if the team over at Microsoft is trying to match the look and feel of OSX in order to shorten the gap between the two operating systems and reduce friction of switching between the two.
If I had to guess, I would say that the designers who have been in charge of Windows for years are twenty-something year olds who have never used Windows in their lives.
That was also my guess given the massive flaws they never bothered to fix. Like search is unusable in windows. Clearly they are not consuming their own product.
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#14"We want it to look like MacOS, but without any consistency and keeping some system components that were written for Windows XP, but we haven't bothered to update yet." "It will require the lastest processors and 32 GB of RAM because OEMs need to sell computers and all of the windows components are using Electron (or similar memory-hungry web UIs)." "Teams and Loop will be fully integrated to enable maximum synergy f…
You write it as a joke, but I recently got myself a PC with Win11Pro. First glance: brand new UI. Until you open some specific settings, or choose "more options" from a context menu, then it's Windows 10. Then you need to tweak something else, and it's suddenly it's Windows XP. And when you go to something in the device/hardware area, you're confronted with a dialog that hasn't changed since NT.
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#15Seeing this makes me so happy that Cinnamon on Linux exists and is what I use for work now (Windows is now a glorified gaming console to me).
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#16What should we put in the most dominant top left position?
Why, that’s easy, the fucking weather.
Except you know it’s not going to be the weather. It will be, mark my words, a portal for advertising and sponsored content, the revenue maker in the very top left corner. If there’s a better metaphor for an insipid lack of relevancy at all times, the weather couldn’t possibly be a more suitable fit.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#17This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons, this is exactly how OSX has the dock configured. Also the system info in the top right. I wonder if the team over at Microsoft is trying to match the look and feel of OSX in order to shorten the gap between the two operating systems and reduce friction of switching between the two.
> This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons,
It looks worse because for no reason at all they have a gap at the bottom. You can bet that it will be click-through, so you have to actually aim with your mouse instead of just bringing the mouse down tho the bottom.
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#18Why, oh why, must MS invent a new UI for every version? They all turn out half-baked, and are never around long enough to get completely debugged and polished.
I think about how great the UI could be if they just kept iterating the original instead of coming up with new shit every time and it makes me mad. It's been a lost decade in UI design for Windows and it's only become worse.
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#19If they're going to block off ~20-30 pixels on the top of the screen I'd really prefer to have the option to put something more useful than weather and an omnipresent search field there.
I know they're not to everyone's taste but it wouldn't hurt to have an option to replace those with a global menubar for example, because I don't need to know the weather that often and a hotkeyed search ala Spotlight, Alfred, or Microsoft's own PowerToys Run is better than a search field that's starting me in the face all the time, but a way to escape the Curse of the Hamburger Menu would be wonderful.
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#20Besides the gap [1] I see they keep cluttering the title bar with completely random functionality to keep you guessing where the hell can I click and drag the window.
This new breed of dribble-raised "designers" should be fired en-masse, but sadly they've taken over the entire industry