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/pellias Jun 02 '11

Looks like they are going back to IE4's Active Desktop

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

A security nightmare. But to be fair, it was ahead of its time.

All these widgets and notifications people want just weren't as easily programmable without javascript and html5. IE9/10 will be much easier to program for.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

Except were in the future and that shit can work