In a three and a half minute video, Microsoft may have shown the world what it has in store for the eagerly awaited Windows 8. In the video Microsoft showed a radically different interface from past versions of Windows -- even Windows 7. Running on Surface 2, the touch-screen successor to the original Microsoft Surface, the device accepts input from a Windows Phone 7 handset (HTC HD7).
Gone are the icons that drive Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems of past and present. In their place are "bubbles" that interacted with files and post streaming information off the internet.
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in short: "Microsoft is in an optimal position to enable 'something' that may be 'better' in the 'future'"
Great now if only they could leverage the cloud to seamlessly align an integrated, next-generation dynamic response user experience ensuring a paradigm shift in cost-effective best practices while maximizing ROI.
It's gay.
Took away windows (rectangles) and giving bubbles (circles). OMG! That's inovation!
Real Artists Ship
yeah, like MS Courier....
Linux fanboys are everywhere. Don't even mention the Mac lovers
Heh. They will never ship this as a desktop OS. The training costs they would be imposing ensure that almost no business would pick it up.
Merely imagine the 'OK, let's call this a window' 'but it's a bubble' 'Where do I click for the internet? I always click the button that should be down here. *looks unhappy* Why have all the buttons moved around?' etc.
Well at least Linux don't cost billions to develope then achive absolutely zilch except get riddled with hole bigger than you butt
I know you are, but what am i!!!!11111oneoneoneone
Is the point of this to innovate, or just to allow Microsoft to follow Apple's lead (yet again) in turning the desktop OS into a DRM-crippled walled garden?
I smell another Vista coming......
windows 8? are you serious guys? those things requires hardware that costs too much for now
the only thing visible in the near future is a UI based on kinect, but is microsoft able to make the dream happen?
Windows Phone, geeks and self-proclaimed bigshots using acronyms like ROI, make me puke!
Windows 8 is eagerly awaited? Since when?
They just came out with Windows 7. I don't want to see version 8 for another five years minimum. If they release it too soon it won't be adapted quickly by business. IT will use the license they have for Windows 7 for many years.
On my personal computer I won't stop using Windows 7 Pro until they stop supporting it(every three years as I replace my laptop I install the same Retail OS disc to it, even calling MS after formatting the old drive with DBAN to get activated as they are very helpful if you are using it on one system.)
I would be using XP Pro on my laptop if it wasn't for the lack of XP drivers for it(last time for HP since I couldn't replace it due to their whitelist.)
As for the new interface...so how will us Accountants use it? The way the interface is now is all we need, and that video only showed something new for artists. Show us the interface that's functional for Word, Excel(yeah GDocs can't replace some of the important functionality of it) and other business productivity.
My mother has enough trouble going from Windows XP to Windows 7. This would blow her out of the water as far as wanting to use the computer.
This is an old technology, idea. But it's good of Microsoft of finally catching up.
Personally I think Windows is starting to come to it's end time.
poopoo
I am a linux sys admin, and anyone that says linux is "free" does not really know, or really use linux.
Seriously, is that guy wearing lipstick?
Fail.
Looks like something you'd use with Kinect.
Microsoft Bob 2 - This time it's personal.
looks like a surface program, rather than an OS
It's good that they experiment. Experiments are done in Linux too. Probably with Apple.
The Win7 desktop was available in Linux for 5 years before Microsoft ran with the idea. Personally, I didn't like it. Linux allows you to turn it off. Going back to something that works for you is a good thing.
I didn't see how you can control more than a limited number of processes/programs with this. Navigation between different running programs is the biggest single problem for me in Windows.
In Linux, I usually keep 4 virtual desktops running. each may have up to 4 programs active. Can Microsoft give me this functionality?
There are other paradigms being tried out in Linux Land. Maybe one of these will actually work to increase personal productivity. Windows didn't. That's true with Apple, Microsoft and Linux systems.
Maybe something based on AI??
What a terrible article. It's purely speculation (an unlikely sort at that) and the video is a random PR piece having nothing to do with Windows 8. What a waste of time.
Not happening. Microsoft has a huge budget to experiment though and they do.
Microsoft almost always waits until other companies have tried things out in the market first, and if they are successful then they will follow.
@YetAnotherBob
>Navigation between different running programs is >the biggest single problem for me in Windows.
Alt+Tab keys -- problem solved
Windows 8...? I guess not... Looks like Bubbles 1. Sounds about right for Mr. Softie!
You can instantly see how crap this is at 0:08 when they demonstrate the terrible lag.
At least MS experiments. Apple just forces their next thing on you as if it's perfect and you want it.
Microsoft Bob? in 3d?
that huge sucking sound you hear is everyone switching to another o/s
For all those Microsoft users: instead of accepting Microsoft GET SOMETHING ELSE already and stop complaining. I'm sick of it. No matter what you do life in Microsoft land is difficult as hell. I switched when I had a viable alternative. Things were a little different and things did take getting use to. However it isn't nearly as bad as sticking with MS Windows and MS Ware. Mac and GNU/Linux users don't end up getting screwed over by horrendous unusable user interfaces, constant crashing, and sluggish performance.
"Eagerly awaited Windows 8"????
So, just like Windows 7, MS changes the interface to be sure everybody's productivity screeches to a halt while they relearn something which did not need changing in the first place. I"m still using XP and will continue to do so until the wheels fall off. Somebody should get busy writing a Win 7/WinXP overlay for this monstrosity.
That crap is made of AiDz and FAIL.
Apple peeps must be falling over themselves laughing.
the implications for porn are endless...
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For all those Microsoft users: instead of accepting Microsoft GET SOMETHING ELSE already and stop complaining. I'm sick of it. No matter what you do life in Microsoft land is difficult as hell. I switched when I had a viable alternative. Things were a little different and things did take getting use to. However it isn't nearly as bad as sticking with MS Windows and MS Ware. Mac and GNU/Linux users don't end up getting screwed over by horrendous unusable user interfaces, constant crashing, and sluggish performance.
People like you are idiots. I've used everything from the first version of Windows to Windows 7, including the server OS versions and have never had issues. I've also used Mac OS and Linux.. there are pros to each one, just as there are cons. The ONLY thing that makes Windows have "sluggish" performance is the user being stupid with it. The argument of Windows "crashing" all the time is a dead argument. It hasn't happened since XP first hit the market. Vista was only a problem because it was first adopted by people buying new computers and idiots have the loudest voice. And the part about Windows being "difficult" - wow, that's just flat out retarded
Actually, all of this stuff is old, and that radical UI is just Microsoft Surface. A device already available from M$ if you have the money for it.
Microsoft. A dying giant.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/04/nokia-bubbles-lets-you-intelligently-unlock-your-n8-in-a-pop/ ?
Linux is mentioned 15 times in the comments, and it doesn't even have anything to do with Linux (other than Canonical (from Ubuntu) showing off some "spectacular new GUI" before, I guess).
The ignorance in this post is astounding.
"omg ms has a guy showing off some stuff from MSR and other prototype projects... so that must mean it'll be in win8". wtf???
You will see almost NONE of this in win8.
Not that radical nor original. Mozilla Labs and Adaptive Path created very similar concepts more than two years ago within the Aurora Project: http://www.adaptivepath.com/aurora/
That video had nothing to do with the article content. Very annoying.
I don’t know what’s worse, Microsoft making you re-learning something every 4 years or Apple dictating what’s best for you. Anyone got a coin?
Windows 7??? Windows 8???
Medieval losers.. I own windows 95!!!
Wouldn't ovals be more efficient?
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