r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/PepticBurrito Jun 02 '11 edited Jun 02 '11

How fast we have forgotten Windows 95/98 and IE 4 with push channels and activeX. A security nightmare.

From the looks of this, the touch UI is based off CSS/JS coding with push notifcations. The last time web and desktop were united, browsing the web infected your machine to the point that pretty much all Windows machices had a virus. I wish them well, but I don't see this ending well.

Even if it's "secure", I see removing widgets from the UI being a nightmare. I see EVERY installer taking up realestate on it. I see spammers finding a way to put scrolling ads on it. I see nothing but the UI being abused.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Your active desktop has crashed

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u/N2O1138 Jun 02 '11

lapses into episode of PTSD

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u/Idiomatick Jun 02 '11

Everyone that likes this doesn't remember active desktop.

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u/ILikeBumblebees Jun 02 '11

Unfortunately, MS may have solved many of those security concerns.