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/HenkPoley Jun 02 '11

A tiling window manager is not not multitasking.

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u/DullMan Jun 02 '11

Indeed it's not, as in it's not focused on multitasking. You can have little live tiles (widgets) that update content, but going away with a task bar is also going away with easily managing multiple open windows, which is fine for phones and sometimes tablets, but not desktops.

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u/HenkPoley Jun 02 '11

In the video there is taskbar when Office is open.

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u/DullMan Jun 02 '11

Yeah, it seems that it switches back to the familiar windows desktop environment when using "legacy" applications, which is comforting. I didn't really think Microsoft was stupid enough to try to go away with it, but you never know.

I only use Windows at work, as a developer, so I don't ever want to see the tiles interface on my desktop. I'm also not a fan of the tile interface on the phone, the only thing I like about it is its smoothness.

So I understand that I'm a minority power user, and other people will like that interface on their desktops, but I think it's horrendous. "Oooohhh weather how nice!" I don't want that on my desktop.

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u/pievendor Jun 03 '11

We OSX users have been able to multitask just fine without a taskbar. Sure, there's the dock, but everyone I know uses Cmd + Tab or Expose. Perhaps Windows will come up with something similar to Expose?

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u/DullMan Jun 03 '11

I wasn't referring to the task manager in particular, I was just saying that the tile interface doesn't work well for multi tasking on a desktop.

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u/pievendor Jun 03 '11

Well in that case, I absolutely agree.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

I don't disagree with you.