I am wondering, if making it more macOS like may not prevent people switching to Mac, but will accelerate the trend since it is ( on the surface ) similar.
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
#72"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…
Yeah, but not that the Mac OS UI is lightning fast, or state of the art either.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#73"How much RAM it will need?" Yes. "How much telemetry it will use?" Yes.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#74"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.
Why reskin, redesign or rewrite something that has been stable and just fine for 10-15 years? Especially if you only access it once in a blue moon
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#75Seeing this makes me so happy that Cinnamon on Linux exists and is what I use for work now (Windows is now a glorified gaming console to me).
its not even king of gaming anymore, proton has taken care of that
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Getting new forced updates is one of the greatest drawbacks of Win11 compared to say Win7. Security is just the excuse to push user hostile feutures down our throats by remote code execution from MS servers.
Windows 7 was peak Windows. Sane enough defaults, power user settings still accessible _and respected_, didn't have ads or run electron everything. If MS would've stopped fucking changing everything, but increasing security instead, it would still be king and not losing market share. Instead we have this Win 11 bullshit, forced down your throat everything, because MS knows better than YOU. While it continues to be bl…
Because 7 was their last UI aimed squarly at the mouse and keyboard user.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#77What should we put in the most dominant top left position? Why, that’s easy, the fucking weather. Except you know it’s not going to be the weather. It will be, mark my words, a portal for advertising and sponsored content, the revenue maker in the very top left corner. If there’s a better metaphor for an insipid lack of relevancy at all times, the weather couldn’t possibly be a more suitable fit.
It is realy important for them because it will gently force you to provide them with the exact geolocation of your non wifi connected desktop.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#78The Windows that would get me excited would be one stripped down to its absolute minimum, only one way to do things, all the old garbage and centuries of attics and basements cleared out. A modular operating system that could run in old machines and new, with the registry removed.
I wonder if the best windows won’t turn out to be SteamOS.
I switched to MacOS after many many years of windows and one of the things I love about macOS is all the configuration is in one place, stuff isn’t duplicated in multiple user interfaces, there’s only one UI style for macOS, not random bits of UI cruft accumulated over 30 years randomly appearing everywhere. macOS knows what it is. Windows seems to have had a lifetime of personal identity crisis.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why reskin, redesign or rewrite something that has been stable and just fine for 10-15 years? Especially if you only access it once in a blue moon
Because it's not like you go to the Control Panel, and when you go to "devices" that brings up an old UI. Instead you have a number of "control panels" that bring up confusingly overlapping mix of old and new UIs.
Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
#80A Mac OS clone without the same level of polish or consistency. Gross.
I switched to Linux Mint years ago using Cinamon as the DE. Many aspects inspired by Windows, which sadly peaked nearly 30 years ago.
Windows will have a very low value proposition soon with the way Proton (Linux gaming) is going.