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> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft's Metro is on the wrong track for
>>> many Windows users
>>>
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>>>| Microsoft has made it clear that it considers Windows 8's Metro
>>>| interface and applications to be the future. When I look at Metro,
>>>| however, I see gaudy colors, boxy designs, applications that can either
>>>| run as a small tile or as full screen with no way to resize or move
>>>| windows. Where have I seen this before? Wait, I know! Windows 1.0.
>>>|
>>>| Twenty-five years of user-interface development and this is what we get?
>>>| Scary.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/358977/Metro_on_the_Wrong_Track_for_Many_Windows_Users
>>
>> Some Windazed fellow at work showed me the Windows 8 dev preview.
>>
>> I have to say that the Metro interface seemed to me to fill a valid
>> niche in user interfaces.
>>
>> However....
>>
>> o It's just one of many possible UI flavors, and not the
>> be-all/end-all of UIs. The free UNIXen have many many more
>> variations on the UI.
>>
>> o A user will have to pick which UI he/she resides in, and generally
>> have to "master" (FSVO master) both of them.
>>
>> o A developer will have to pick which UI he/she builds for, and
>> generally have to "master" (FSVO master) both of them.
>>
>> And guess what, that mean yet another Microsoft API... WinRT.
>> It does not displace .NET, as far as I can tell, but is separate from
>> it.
>>
>> More churn. And they say Android is "fragmented". Sheesh.
>
>
> There are a lot of graphics libs for embedded that
> is comparable with windopws 1.0.
>
> (e.g. the microchip http://www.microchip.com)
Vista 8 won't run on small microchips. It's bloat dressed up as an
"OS".
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