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.
Microsoft gives the first official look of Windows 8 touch interface
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.
Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 10:50
by Sojourn
I'm curious how this might change mainstream gaming... doubletap the opponent's head for a boom!-headshot?
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 10:52
by ryanrich
jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 11:53
by Hman
ryanrich wrote:
jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...
My mind is going to some awful places right now.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 13:39
by DJT
Hman wrote:
ryanrich wrote:
jamin_za wrote:Well a touch interface will certainly make browsing pr0n more engaging!
Gives a whole new meaning to "tap that ###"...
My mind is going to some awful places right now.
Do you think if you tap it three times it (they) will enlarge like on an iPad
On a serious note, not too keen about the whole interface thing. I prefer the classic look and task bar
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 13:43
by Siemens
Not sure if want.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 02 Jun 2011, 13:45
by Bladerunner
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.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 10:03
by rustypup
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.
mickeysoft manoeuvring to behave like mickeysoft!?
shut.down.everything!
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 10:09
by hamin_aus
Microsoft
Seeking unfair advantages against other software vendors
This is unheard of
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 15:10
by Bladerunner
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".
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 06:00
by Tribble
Is it true that Windows 8 is moving .net out? Here
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 06:29
by RuadRauFlessa
Dunno our firewall at work blocks the link as it has streaming media on it.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 06:35
by Tribble
Questions:
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.
Reactions:
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.
HTML5 + JS for Windows Apps, Does it mean Windows app using.NET is going to dead? Share your thought in the comment box.
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.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:04
by Tribble
Phew - was getting nervous. Don't want to learn something that is about to be outdated.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:07
by RuadRauFlessa
Well you are learning SharePoint which is outdate in any case.
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:25
by hamin_aus
Really, what's replacing it
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:30
by Tribble
It is not outdated - yet. Seems to be going strong
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:32
by RuadRauFlessa
Whahaha in the mind of which sales rep
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:41
by Tribble
The minds of the clients that have bought the system - good couple of years work there
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:44
by hamin_aus
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
Re: Windows 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 07:46
by RuadRauFlessa
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
Whahaha in the mind of which sales rep 
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