Is this a good time to ask if anyone has some good reasons to upgrade to windows 11? ( other than getting security updates past 2025) - I would love to hear them :)
Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
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Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#22Was it really accidental or was this the plan all along to gauge response to the change?
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#23always more and more vertical space wasted 16:9 is the most popular aspect ratio on desktop, there is no valid reason to waste more vertical space that's poor UX
s/popular/common/
I sometimes wish portrait oriented 4:3 monitors had become the dominant form.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#24Why, 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.
Because new batch of PMs are joining and they all have promotion cycles they want to do well at
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#25It looks like they want to replace the desktop metaphor over time. I bet Windows will eventually resemble a fullscreen MS Teams.
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#26They 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.
At this point I’d take the consistency of everything reverting to win95
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#27"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.
Yeah, Windows would be 100% better if they just picked one UI design approach and actually made everything work through it.
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#28I can't wait to have this live alongside the last 6 Windows new UI languages in various incomplete ways (7? Can go pre-XP anymore?)
I don't understand Microsoft insistence on introducing a brand new design language this often. Just make one and consolidate everything under it.
Also... holy hell does that scream Mac with the icons on the top right and the dock that isnt a dock on the bottom.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#29"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.
I watched a video of somebody removing Program Files and related folders until the system stop working. At some point Win11 reverted itself into Win10
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#30"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…
I found myself buying a computer this holiday season and spending over a thousand dollars on it. Then realized Windows 11 isnt the Pro version, anyway I went to add a new Windows User and the app told me to go to another app because its not supported from there in my edition of Windows, when I got to the other app, it said to go back to the first app. I literally just said screw it and installed POP OS. Steam runs all the games I have tried so far just fine (I have a 3080 so it probably helps to have a known GPU) and I dont see myself going back. I used to use Linux daily for work at a former job anyway.
I really want Microsoft to just make a version of Windows for actual Pros that doesnt pull you into their ecosystem. I want my OS to just be an OS.