Windows 8 A new kind of OS

[blankedboy]

I love how it's pretty much just Zune in clusterfuck form.

 

[Tzekelkan]

I'll be honest, it looks bad. It looks like a smartphone interface, except flat and bland (probably how the Windows phones look, I don't know). I agree with the guy that said it's similar to Windows Media Center, which I never use because it's so annoying.

 

[Maxtro]

Yeah, If you don't have a touch screen, then what is the point?

This just seems like nothing more than a tablet OS.

 

[yanipheonu]

well I'm not really attached to the same old Start menu Windows format so I'm all for change, and this could be pretty cool if done right. I've been impressed with the Windows Phone OS, if they can take what they learned into a PC, could be great.

I'm a mac user personally, just because the little touches to make things more user friendly out weights the lack of compatibility with programs (not a big PC gamer)

If we get a UI revamp with the good ol Windows functionality and compatability with programs, might be winner. might switch over if it turns out ok.

XD Like how people are freaking out though. Was the old Windows really all that great?

 

[Stryc9]

I hope this is some sort of joke. Not only does it look like a pile of cluttered dog shit but it's going to be a security nightmare. I predict this being a complete and total failure even bigger than Windows ME.

Basing your OS around HTML 5 and JavaScript is an open invitation for every "app" that gets written for it to contain some piece of malware designed to steal your information. Kind of like how Internet Explorer works now only now it's your whole OS.

It seems like Microsoft hits the mark every other OS cycle so I'll wait to see what they do for Windows 9. Windows 7 is going to last quite a while and I'm perfectly happy with it for now.

 

[Pat8u]

I saw a youtube video of it way back

 

[SoulSalmon]

Well it's obviously a little early to form a solid opinion, but first impression is certainly "Ugh, that looks annoying :/"

It seems to me that every second Windows OS blows chunks... and Vista was the last one, so we'll see if this pattern holds up.

I just need a *nix build with better compatability running programs designed for windows >.> Then I'd be a happy chappy.

 

[Agayek]

From the looks of it the deep down stuff is unaffected, it is just the UI they are overhauling.

And they've done a terrible job of it.

I like a lot of the concepts behind what they showed in the video, but it's not a desktop OS. It's a tablet/smartphone OS. It's literally designed, from the ground up, to be for tablets.

It will need a lot of restructuring to make it a halfway decent desktop OS.

 

[Agayek]

Well it's obviously a little early to form a solid opinion, but first impression is certainly "Ugh, that looks annoying :/"

It seems to me that every second Windows OS blows chunks... and Vista was the last one, so we'll see if this pattern holds up.

I just need a *nix build with better compatability running programs designed for windows >.> Then I'd be a happy chappy.

If you're referring to games, there's programs out there that will allow you to play most popular PC games on a Linux machine. I'm spacing on the name, I'll throw it in an edit if I remember, but it's out there.

I'd definitely just run Kubuntu or Arch Linux if they let me play my games, but I'm not willing to pay for that software .

 

[Zeekar]

I'd love to jump on the Microsoft doomsday van, but that actually looks pretty cool. Too bad I can't afford a touchscreen.

 

[Waaghpowa]

If you're referring to games, there's programs out there that will allow you to play most popular PC games on a Linux machine. I'm spacing on the name, I'll throw it in an edit if I remember, but it's out there.

I'd definitely just run Kubuntu or Arch Linux if they let me play my games, but I'm not willing to pay for that software .

I think it's called cross over, or Wine.

 

[lostlambda]

I'll stick with Linux now even seems simplier to use then Win8

 

[GWarface]

Wtf is this?!

If this is what the final product will look like, i will avoid it like the plague just like i did with Vista..

Maybe its time for getting Linux?

 

[Waaghpowa]

if youll excuse me, i have to go apologize to linux for ever doubting it. i now see its the only sane OS left.

Probably has something to do with the fact that it's not trying to market itself to people. If it weren't for the fact that it's a pain to get my games to run stable, I'd be all over Ubuntu.

 

[Wintermoot]

I hope upgrading to this system isn't mandatory this looks like shit!
it looks like a smart-phone/tablet OS modified to run on a computer!

 

[zehydra]

Oh God, no! That looks horrible. It looks just like Windows Phone 7, and that's very crap as it is. And I thought the interface designer of Windows 7 was on crack. What the hell is wrong with whoever's behind this?!
Seriously, Microsoft, stop letting designers have anything to do with building the interface to an OS. Get an engineer to do it. I want practicality, not "artistic expression"!

Agreed, if you're going to allow for artistic expression in the OS of a PC, at least allow it to be customizable/andor turn-off-able.

 

[SpAc3man]

Obviously none of you have been keeping up to date with what has been said about Windows 8.

Windows 8 is going to feature multiple UI options/systems. The one primarily seen in that video is the one designed for tablets and touch screens. The regular desktop UI will be more like Windows 7 but will supposedly feature the ribbon UI system like what the latest versions of office use. If you look carefully when the regular looking Windows desktop is shown you can see it when he brings up the explorer window.

 

[O maestre]

damn a new os already... i just got windows 7 recently, i feel as if i am being left behind the technological wake

 

[RaiTsui]

Hm. I know he said Windows 8, and I know that it looks like a computer, but I can't get past the part where he was talking about the keyboard and said they had a 'thumb keyboard'. That makes me think this is some sort of tablet thing or something...