Can confirm, I worked on MoPho. It was a weird time.
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
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Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#32Honestly, the "modern" UI (Live tiles) was unironically the best part of Windows 8.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adding "fast" is similarly fun, it's probably true when you came up with it, probably won't be true in the future anymore.
What do you mean? Fast Ethernet is fast, and it'll stay that way forever! It's in the name! 100 Mbit/s!
Or USB:
- USB 2.0: High-Speed USB
- USB 3.0: Super-Speed USB
The marketing names are often deficient, but at least there's a clear version number attached to it. Microsoft doesn't like version numbers at all.
Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#34A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
Ditto. Metro was the best graphic UI I ever used. I liked even on the laptop.
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#35> The ListView control? It started out with the more tedious name “modern collection control”, which got shortened to “MoCo.” A missed opportunity to call it "MoCoCo" which, if you ask me, has more flare and personality to it. What a waste :/
Way more fun than JaCoCo (which I actually like): https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/
Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#36Hot take: I liked Windows 8. It used less memory than Windows 7, increased battery life, the file manager and task manager were much improved, I could mount ISOs without third party software, among other things. In truth, I didn't even mind the start screen. And I certainly liked Metro as a UI paradigm much more than Aero. Of course it was still Windows at the end of the day, but 8.1 was my last Windows. The laptop I…
I was one of the few people that thought people would like it. That is, why shouldn't it be better to have a bunch of tiles on your desktop that have the most important information and then you choose the one you really want to concentrate on full screen? Well, of course the problem is you aren't using a tablet. It's trying to fix something that never needed to be fixed.
But yes, Linux is great now and most people on the site can easily debug potential problems they run into on it and not look back.
Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#37A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
They had some cool form factors too. I remember I had one of the phones with a landscape slide-out physical keyboard.
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#38A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
Same here. I had a window's phone at some point. Would have loved it with a stylus.
Did that have any real-world effects/benefits?
I think you could build most Linux desktops with RT enabled, but I don't think you'd gain anything UX related
Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#39Hot take: I liked Windows 8. It used less memory than Windows 7, increased battery life, the file manager and task manager were much improved, I could mount ISOs without third party software, among other things. In truth, I didn't even mind the start screen. And I certainly liked Metro as a UI paradigm much more than Aero. Of course it was still Windows at the end of the day, but 8.1 was my last Windows. The laptop I…
I ran Windows 8 and the 8.1 on a Surface Pro 2 for about two years as my daily driver. It was great for travelling with since it was so lightweight and easy to use in cramped airplane seats. However, I never bothered using any of the "modern" applications at all.
Windows 10 was certainly an improvement.
Re: The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
#40A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.
One of my high school friends had a Windows phone around this time, the one with the giant camera bit. I thought it looked super cool but he hated the thing. No apps.