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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 by hulitu »

gumboza wrote: post #39

Apologies for this alcohol fuelled rage comment but for fucks sake Microsoft just stop redesigning shit and finish the last 11 redesigns of windows, fix all the cruft hanging out everywhere and start giving a crap about your clients from a security and attention perspective. We are not cows to be milked for upsells, telemetry and ad revenue. We are also not caged animals to experiment on. We are paying customers who…

> We are not cows to be milked for upsells, telemetry and ad revenue. We are also not caged animals to experiment on.

Microsoft would like to disagree. They don't care about fixing bugs or ensuring consistency. They only care that telemetry keeps flowing.

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

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Post by aaomidi »

hulitu wrote: post #81
solarkraft wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They want to know your location.

They literally already do as the system that provides location services on your computer.

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

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Post by rolenthedeep »

nerdjon wrote: post #28

I 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.

Just open device manager, or regedit. You'll be right back in windows 98

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

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Post by Sakos »

to11mtm wrote: post #90
Sakos wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which is a bit of a shame IMO. I'm a bit of an apologist for windows 8.1 and the 'Start Screen', even if the Store and WinUI apps were kinda gross. Sure, the start screen was a whole screen rather than a bar. But it was easy enough to organize into something useful, as opposed to the Win10 start menu which just feels too busy with a bunch of small tiles littering the screen.

I hated the 8.1 start screen, but I think even that could have been turned into something really cool and useful. The fact that they never iterated on that either is just mind-boggling. Only a company as entrenched and wealthy as Microsoft can afford to expend that much effort and then throw it all out a few years later, just to start over from scratch again.
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