I'm pretty sure the main point is to send more spam within the os. I hated Linux ux ui for long time but windows is pushing it to the limits... And I'm finally thinking to move to Linux.
Microsoft announces Windows 11
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#22Putting the start menu button in the middle of the panel rather than at a corner seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys more or just bad design?
It seems there's still an option on taskbar settings to move it onto left but new position seems to be default [1] - at least in the "leaked" build.
[1] - https://winaero.com/how-to-disable-centered-taskbar-in-windo...
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#23Putting the start menu button in the middle of the panel rather than at a corner seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys more or just bad design?
There’s a setting for left aligned, but Fitts Law is overrated for the Start menu. None of the apps on your taskbar have ever benefited from it, and you probably click those all the time, much more than the Start button.
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#24Apart from the UI there seem to be some interesting gaming upgrades backported from xbox into windows (direct storage and autohdr). Autohdr in particular works really well on my xbox / tv combo.
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#25> " Microsoft is also integrating Microsoft Teams directly into Windows 11, for both consumers and commercial users. " Not that I have any objections to Teams per se but attempting to drive adoption by bundling got Microsoft in trouble in the IE era; didn't they learn their lesson? Either way, probably the first thing I'll be doing after a fresh install of Windows 11 is uninstalling Teams.
safari/iMessage/Facetime/Maps or every default app on iOS? or any preinstalled and uninstallable app on Android?
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#26Presentation is so cringe. Why does the main presenter sound like he's about to start crying and tell me he always loved me.
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#27Anyone has a good guess why Microsoft needed to bump the version? All of these updates seems something that can be easily updated to Windows 10 in several or one half year update.
Is this something related to it's corporate clients or licensing services? Really can't understand why a need to create a new version with so much hype, when they've announced in the past that W10 will be the last Windows version.
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#28Wow, Windows just keeps getting worse. Anyone know who’s responsible for the Mac OS inspired start menu?
Presumably it’s an easy to change default, but why exactly copy such a user hostile layout.
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#29Looks like Windows Monterey, with the "Start menu" now being a Spotlight clone!
I am unsure if the removal of the titlebar is a good thing - there is still an alt-space menu to the left of windows that do not have an icon top left, and double-clicking on a titlebar is a convenient place to double-click; this isn't possible with no titlebar (eg. in Chrome/Firefox at the moment).
Looks a nice modern UI refresh though.
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#30Putting the start menu button in the middle of the panel rather than at a corner seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys more or just bad design?
UI Designers don't give a rip about Fitt's Law or any of these self-proclaimed design "laws". Unless it's a useful authority to appeal to for beating opposing UI Designers.