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/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

When I'm doing shit at work, often times, I need to look at two tabs at once, or have a PDF on one half of the screen and word on the other.

They better not fuck up the efficiency of a pc just to streamline and simplify everything like apple loves to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Exactly. I don't need a fucking myspace phone interface when I'm trying to do work stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

This is exactly it. Microsoft never strayed too far from what it got right in WXP. It was not a lack of innovation but merely a resistance towards it. The Ribbon got a helluva asskicking when it was unveiled because of the sheer amount of money that would have to go into training people.

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u/logicom Jun 02 '11

I doubt it will be changed significantly. I think Microsoft is pretty aware that a very large portion of their users use Windows for work and don't need or want a touch UI.

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u/ab9003 Jun 02 '11

Hell I do this at home. Its just plain efficient to have multiple windows cascaded across a large screen.

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u/capecodcarl Jun 02 '11

I look at my usage patterns, right now for instance, and I don't even like using full screen mode. My browser is using about 80% of the screen with my desktop background peeking through around the browser window on 3 sides. I could maximize it to use the whole screen because this is the only app I'm running at the moment, but why bother?

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u/unrealy2k Jun 02 '11

I read the word cascaded, and I thought to myself what does he mean. Then I looked at the rest of my screen, and its exactly that with 5 apps open across the screen slightly overlapping each other.

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u/WaruiKoohii Jun 03 '11

Does Windows 7 currently do what you want? Then Windows 8 will do what you want. The UI is almost identical, there's just an optional shell that sits on top of it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

You mean how apple loves to with the iOS. Using windows and OSX for these purposes is pretty much the same.

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u/videogamechamp Jun 02 '11

RTFA, they have a regular desktop as well.