Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon Jun 4 03:58:02 CDT 2012
Hi Gustav -- Thank you for your detailed note on Windows 8 and Metro style. > When you have used Metro for a while, other interfaces look outdated. Yes, this is my perception too as I have already noted here - and I have only used Windows Phone 7 for half+ year... > These - very young, old, or just inexperienced - can touch with a finger even if they can't read. Yes... a few days ago I have got "captured"myself that I wanted to touch-click an [OK] button on a MS Windows 7 system popup dialog window of my desktop system, which isn't touch enabled. That was funny: my finger did get very close to the display surface before I realized that what I'm going to do (touch-click) will not work on that device.... :) I guess another Windows 8 feature to attract many users will be SkyDrive synchronization of all devices running Windows 8 - and as most of desktop systems worldwide are currently mainly running Windows then it will be natural to users to get Windows Phone 8 smart-phones or Internet pads, and Android and iPhones will have to provide SkyDrive synchronization features too to keep their users not moving to WinPhones/WinPads... ... Thank you. -- Shamil Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:03:39 +0200 от "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>: > Hi Mark et al > > Correct or not, he hasn't seen the light, he hasn't even bothered exploring what he has installed to an extent that you may think he hasn't installed it at all, only watched Windows 8 somewhere. It's amazing that a person of his said capabilities hasn't noticed that a Windows 7 styled desktop is 1 (one!) click away. > > It's interesting to watch that for once Microsoft is on par with first-movers and far ahead of the general public - in fact with such a distance that most haven't caught what is going on. Dvorak's "review" is just one example more. > > The Metro design and interface is a masterpiece which will allow Microsoft to create interfaces for all current devices - from a 2- or 4-tile sized light switch-style control unit in your living room, via Windows Phone and a tablet (the main target for Metro of Windows 8), touch operated POS systems and other desktop sized units, touchable TV sets, to large sized board and table interfaces - an beyond, like Kinect operated video projectors or laser pointer operated cinema screens - to two of the near-future giant areas: interfaces for cars and home appliances where small touch operated displays is what we can expect and nothing beats Metro here. > > To me the goal is clear. Microsoft wants to be everywhere you touch anything that is computer related and - when you do so - you will feel Windows wether you pay notice or not. > > Also, and this is very important, don't forget all the humans not that (or at all) familiar with computers. These - very young, old, or just inexperienced - can touch with a finger even if they can't read. With Metro you have a solid foundation to create interfaces for most special areas. > > When you have used Metro for a while, other interfaces look outdated. Worst of all is the Mac desktop where the icons at the bottom bar are zoomed up as if you were an idiot, and windows don't get minimized - they get sucked away! It is so ugly to view and serves no other purpose than showing it can done. > > /gustav > > > >>> marksimms at verizon.net 02-06-12 1:57 >>> > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-reinvents-the-wheel-with-windows-8-2012-06-01?dist=afterbell > > > > He's usually correct. > > Hard to believe Balmer and company are about to blow it again. > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >