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At the D9 conference today, Steve Sinofsky, President of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, gave the first look at the next version of Windows, currently "codenamed" Windows 8. On display was the new touch user interface: an interface designed for tablets and touch computers.
For the first time in its life, Windows will receive a true touch interface. Since Windows XP, Microsoft has tried to graft touch capabilities onto its operating system, but has consistently failed to bridge the gap between precise mouse and keyboard interfaces, and sloppy, imprecise, finger-based interfaces. Windows 8 changes that. Microsoft describes the new interface as "touch first"; it'll work with a mouse and a keyboard, but it was designed for fingers.
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This actually looks extremely slick and would be fantastic on a tablet if implemented properly. Microsoft is brilliant at creating these wonderful concepts, and terrible at implementing them though.
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Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
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I'm curious how this might change mainstream gaming... doubletap the opponent's head for a boom!-headshot?
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Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
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My mind is going to some awful places right now.ryanrich wrote:Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
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Do you think if you tap it three times it (they) will enlarge like on an iPadHman wrote:My mind is going to some awful places right now.ryanrich wrote:Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
On a serious note, not too keen about the whole interface thing. I prefer the classic look and task bar
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Not sure if want.
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I can't watch the video at work, but I have to add I most certainly do not want a primarily touch-based interface. I want to use my keyboard and my mouse; that's all I need.
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mickeysoft manoeuvring to behave like mickeysoft!?softwarefreedom.org wrote:At the beginning of December, we warned the Copyright Office that operating system vendors would use UEFI secure boot anticompetitively, by colluding with hardware partners to exclude alternative operating systems. As Glyn Moody points out, Microsoft has wasted no time in revising its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that ship with Windows 8.
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While we're on the subject of Windows 8, that new "Metro" start menu interface is f-ing horrible. And the start orb with its ugly grey background looks like it just doesn't belong on the desktop, like a pimple.
To show my disgust with this new interface, I am downgrading its name from "Metro" to "Homo".
To show my disgust with this new interface, I am downgrading its name from "Metro" to "Homo".
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Is it true that Windows 8 is moving .net out?
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Dunno our firewall at work blocks the link as it has streaming media on it.
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From hereQuestions:
Now there are some questions from a developer point of view:
1. What does Windows 8 mean for .NET developers?
2. Is HTML5 the main way to write apps for the new shell?
3. Will IE keep supporting Silverlight/flash/WPF?
4. Will Windows 8 support Windows Phone apps?
Why HTML5, Not Silverlight:
They are stressing HTML 5 because they are trying to attract app developers. Today, Most of client-side developers are building HTML apps, another big number are writing iOS and Android apps. Learning XAML/Silverlight technologies is difficult. As they are losing the battle with iOS/Android, going HTML could be their only option to regain the market.
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Many Silverlight and .Net developers fear their skill sets may become legacy ones. Microsoft officials have not clarified where .Net fits in the Windows 8 world.
There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum fretting over the demonstrations.
Channel 9, another Microsoft developer forum, has a similar reaction
Conclusion:
Microsoft is turning the Windows desktop into a web browser and is going in the way of Palm webOS.
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If you look at the latest trend by Microsoft to move .net developers away from windows forms to Windows Presentation Foundation then I will say there is nothing to worry about. WPF can be used as a web page without having to change a scrap of code in the background.
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Phew - was getting nervous. Don't want to learn something that is about to be outdated.
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Really, what's replacing it
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It is not outdated - yet. Seems to be going strong
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The minds of the clients that have bought the system - good couple of years work there
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Yeah, SharePoint is still enjoying huge usership in many companies.
I've recently interviewed for a job at a mining company which is going to be investing heavily in MOSS...
RRF, answer my question please bud
I've recently interviewed for a job at a mining company which is going to be investing heavily in MOSS...
RRF, answer my question please bud
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Oh well making money out of fools... the way business is always run.
Oh and jamin... nothing that Microsoft can offer cuz they can't come up with something decent. Just look at how they are butchering Windows
Oh and jamin... nothing that Microsoft can offer cuz they can't come up with something decent. Just look at how they are butchering Windows
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Take Sharepoint to the newly created thread .
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So anyone tried the Consumer preview edition.
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