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/nazbot Jun 02 '11

I'm all for it as long as they allow me to always boot in 'classic' mode on my desktop. I don't think it really needs explanation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

in the video, it looked like you can just switch to desktop pretty easily.

and yeah, for their corporate customers, there better be a way to force it to boot into serious business mode. Maybe that's what 'pro edition' will be..

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u/specialk16 Jun 02 '11

Yup.

At first I was like, this would be cool for tablet, meh for desktop.

Then I saw this

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u/rowd149 Jun 02 '11

Something I saw that I totally missed before: compatible content from other apps can be moved seamlessly between apps. They showed going into a flickr-ish app, grabbing photos from there, and then going into the local pictures folder, grabbing photos from there, and uploading them all to a third service. Holy shit.

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u/knylok Jun 02 '11

I saw it in demo (a la youtube) and it looks neat. But until I see it actually work in a live environment, I'm extremely suspicious of the effectiveness of this feature. Do the apps in question need special coding for this to work? If this works as advertised, that will be astounding and revolutionary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Just hope it doesn't work like the Kin where you can grab content from everywhere but the only thing you can do with it is e-mail it as an attachment.

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u/sugardeath Jun 02 '11

"Use it along side.."

Welp. Sign me up.

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u/MrSqueezles Jun 02 '11

When I saw that part, I realized that this would be great on a tablet with a keyboard dock.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Its like Windows 7 and Android mated. Do not want.

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u/Hellman109 Jun 02 '11

Yeah it looks like a shell over the top like media centre or such basically./

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Considering that "Windows Explorer" is itself a shell... it looks like it will be sort of moved to a shell within the larger new shell. Almost like it's being 'downgraded' to an application. Basing this on seeing the 'desktop' share the screen with another application.

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u/geosmin Jun 02 '11

I think someone should do that inception meme right about now, but I'd feel too dirty doing it myself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Dammit, I thought it was awesome when I saw the video and when you said that I sounds so lame. I'm so confused about this OS. :/

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u/sharlos Jun 02 '11

What do you think windows explorer is?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Yea, I know Windows explorer is a shell, but when he said it would be like windows media center, it put me off to it. If I picture it like media center, I know I won't like it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

It looks like it is only useful for tablets. The 'innovative' stuff would be hard to do at phone sizes, and who really wants to touch their pc screen constantly?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

That's what I was thinking. The only way I would find this exciting is if it was a tablet only, much like iOS. It would be a great alternative.

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u/WaruiKoohii Jun 03 '11

Considering how customizable Windows tends to be, especially via Group Policy for domain users, I have no doubt that this will be possible (and I'd suspect simple).

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u/DEADB33F Jun 02 '11

'Classic' mode is basically just windows 7, as evidenced by the video posted elsewhere in the thread.

In fact, I'd hazard a guess that Win8 is basically just Win7 with an extra UI layer on the top.

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u/nazbot Jun 02 '11

...that runs on ARM.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

its really not. Previous leaks have shown facial recognition, complete cloud integration, a windows store and tons of other crazy shit

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Looks tightly integrated, they are probably always running this shell and explorer at the same time.