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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

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post #60

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.

I thought Windows 95 menu bar was quite functional once you got used to it. https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/08/24/win95start_648.jpg

Until you accidentally overshot by a single pixel and your entire foldout of menus disappeared, forcing you to spend time going through the whole tree again (unless my memory is failing me).

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

#63

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 :)

HDR support is miles better, and it has Auto HDR which is great.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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post #33

I bet if I throw the cursor to the bottom it will miss the icons, making it less usable for non touch users.

Throwing the cursor to the bottom-left and top-right were one of my favorite design features in Windows... Not anymore I guess, at least for the bottom-left.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 al…

Yes this is annoying. Ideally my computer should just do what I want it to, and not gaslight me into whatever metrics Microsoft program managers are optimizing for to get their bonuses…as in selling more OneDrive or Xbox live subscriptions.

Welp, it's what they said they would do and now they are doing it.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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post #31

Microsoft is a new company since Satya Nadella took over. But one thing hasn't changed: shameless, mindless copying. If they copied well then that would be one thing. But they don't copy well either. In Windows 10 (and 11 too) if you resize a window by dragging the bottom border, the bottom of the window does not quite touch the taskbar: there is a few pixels of gap, which is just a waste. I didn't understand why the…

Further yet, most companies trying to be like Apple copy the superfluous actions but not the necessary one. You get the wasted space, but not the "doesn't crash and glitch around all the time".

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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My god, Microsoft. I used to be a Windows hater for the longest time, emulating the macOS dock on my Linux desktop. I still don't like Windows but have eventually realized that the task bar just makes sense.

Guess that's why it needs to be made worse! First the start button shifting depending on how many apps you have pinned, now the whole task bar in the middle of the screen.

I can only congratulate. Maybe they could try placing it diagonally.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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If 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 Mic…

Microsoft's obsession with the current weather feels like someone resorted to desperate measures fill their "wasted space" quota.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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post #57

Totally killed the Taskbar. Funny that they’ve gradually been transforming the best part of Windows UI into the worst part of MacOS UI.

I somewhat like the macOS dock. But eventually, on KDE, with all the freedom in the world, I realized that it just makes sense to have everything integrated.

Maybe they realized during a QA meeting that it was too good for their standards.

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