[QUOTE=.Lain;46725021]and yes, metro did have user friendliness problems, as proven by the incredibly slow adaptation and negative response to the interface
Windows 10 solves a lot of those problems, but it doesn't fix some of the big ones yet[/QUOTE]Yeah, it still looks insanely flat.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46725021]and yes, metro did have user friendliness problems, as proven by the incredibly slow adaptation and negative response to the interface
Windows 10 solves a lot of those problems, but it doesn't fix some of the big ones yet. why do so many of these old style applications still exist when there are perfectly good metro alternatives, that can even be windowed now? i would almost guarantee that microsoft aren't going to remove these old applications, or update them. the Modern UI alternatives sometimes lack functionality too, which means people resort to either using 3rd party tools or using the legacy vista style applications, which totally breaks design consistency throughout the OS.[/QUOTE]
I don't know whether you're referencing the start screen, or the general navigation of the Metro environment in general. Personally I think the start screen is a great experience, and adoption issues can be partly contributed to it simply being entirely different from what people were used to. Metro had a lot of problems with its interface in general, though I think they fixed a lot of them along the way. I won't really comment on Windows 10, because I have yet to use it, but I will say that while it may fix some complaints that people had, I don't strictly like the idea of windowed Metro applications, and while I'll wait until we've been shown continuum in action to pass judgement, I think in the end convertibles might suffer with this approach. While windowed metro applications might help bridge the desktop/metro divide, it also introduces inconsistency within the environments - the applications (and the windows) look wildly different, and they act wildly different as well - some applications will use the sandwich menu, some won't.
I hope Microsoft does a full sweep of its standard applications, Photo/Fax Viewer, Paint, WordPad, and simply remakes them as Metro Applications - it's kinda weird having both Metro applications and desktop Applications come with your OS, sometimes with functional parity, sometimes not.
This post ended up being less of a reply and more of a ramble, so I might as well throw in something extra. Beyond fixing inconsistencies, I would love if Microsoft made like an Apple and threw in some creative application worth their salt. Most teens who want to do music think that they need need a Mac and GarageBand to do so - in reality GarageBand isn't hugely more functional (if at all) than free alternatives such as Audacity (and personally I think the UI in GarageBand is actually pretty bad), but Audacity lacks all kinds of polish and features, that open source could never dream of producing - such as Drummer and so on. Microsoft has the resources to make a free, full-fledged alternative on Windows, and I think it could help curb the assumption that you can't do anything creative if you use Windows. I don't think the Metro design language would be bad for such an application - it's clean, and, as Apple did with the Logic Remote App, some stuff would translate well to a touchscreen. Microsoft could also introduce something that amateur-level software generally lacks - support for multiple sound cards. Teens don't have the money for expensive sound cards with 4 inputs, so they generally buy entry level stuff with 2 inputs. If you want to record something with 4 inputs, you need to use two different computers, or at least two instances of different recording software, which complicates matters a lot.
iMovie is also - in my experience - not really that good, and still pretty limited even though it costs money. Apple hasn't done a lot on that side of things in a while, so why isn't Microsoft pressuring the creative side of things?
[QUOTE=RoboChimp2;46723463]I didn't mention smartphones at all, where'd you get that from? Name one touchscreen laptop that was useful?
[editline]16th December 2014[/editline]
That's got nothing to do with a touchscreen flogbook.. I mean notebook.
[editline]16th December 2014[/editline]
Not on a device that already has a keyboard and trackpad.[/QUOTE]
Re read your post. You didn't say laptops either. You just said touchscreens were a gimmick.
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;46710692]It's the same as Windows 8.1's[/QUOTE]
Implying the logo was any good then
[QUOTE=gk99;46726272]Implying the logo was any good then[/QUOTE]
It is tho
[I]"Cortana, all I want to do is: Did we lose the haters?"
"I think you and I both know the answer to that."[/I]
[QUOTE=gk99;46726272]Implying the logo was any good then[/QUOTE]
I like it. What's so inherently bad about it?
[QUOTE=Furnost;46710540]is microsoft any better with speech recognition than in the past?
[video=youtube;KyLqUf4cdwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc[/video][/QUOTE]
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oh my god that's hilarious
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AZ4HGsa.png[/t]
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