As we spoke about in a recent post, Steven Sinofsky is no longer a part of Microsoft. The rumors surrounding this leadership change have been plentiful, but in the end it isn’t what happened that is interesting so much as what might happen as a result. Since Sinofsky was a driving force behind the form [...]
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The Windows 8 interface, formerly known as Metro, relies heavily on the new Live Tiles that can be found on the Start screen. There is nothing quite so obviously revolutionary about Windows 8 as the way these are used. Practically every complaint and much of the praise that Microsoft has gotten over the changes to [...]
Given all the press surrounding Windows 8’s preliminary browser wars, Mozilla seems to be lagging slightly in getting their program ready for release. Windows 8-optimized Chrome has been available for months at this point (though how optimized it actually is can be easily questioned) and Internet Explorer 10 is obviously nearly finalized aside from the [...]
Seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft has decided that they will be removing all references to “Metro” from the final release of Windows 8. Don’t get your hopes up Windows 8 naysayers, all they are doing is ditching the name. The sudden decision and the company’s attempt to spin it into a move they always planned [...]
In a recent post on the “Building Windows 8” blog, a great deal of effort went into explaining the ideas behind their implementation of the Metro mail app that was included in the Windows 8 Release Preview. They answered the question of why so few commands are easily accessible despite being long standing staples of [...]
Windows 8 already does a fairly good job of allowing for development using a number of programming languages. That is one of the biggest advantages it brings for developers, and will definitely do a lot to draw people into designing Metro UI applications. Despite the success so far in making this work, the company is [...]
At the moment, users will have no problem installing alternative web browsers such as Chrome or Firefox to the desktop environment of Windows 8. The Metro UI, on the other hand, currently offers Internet Explorer exclusively. This has been seen by some as a potentially major shortcoming, since Metro is so central to making the [...]
There’s no denying that Windows 8 makes huge concessions to the touch screen interface in the form of the Metro UI style. This is, for the most part, the biggest hurdle to adoption for many potential customers and the reason why the Consumer Preview is so vital to Microsoft’s success at this point. What is [...]
Microsoft’s recent unveiling of the new logo for Windows 8 has drawn some criticism from reviewers upset to see such a sharp break from the flag we’ve been used to all these years. It certainly does mark a sharp break from the Windows we have come to know. Despite many of the critiques, however, it [...]
