Windows 8 with the Metro UI.
Microsoft first used the Metro UI in its entirety with the Windows Phone platform, beginning with Windows Phone 7, which was a replacement for the old Windows Mobile platform, which lagged far behind the competition; being mainly Apple, Google and Research In Motion (which has its BlackBerry mobile products and operating system platform). Metro is a very interesting user interface and fun to use. It has the simplest possible UI elements, while being incredibly elegant, plus smooth and consistent animations when scrolling, opening and closing apps.
Metro comes to Windows. And that means, the Windows for computers.
Windows 8 was first introduced with the Metro UI last year. Obviously, it looked surprisingly similar to Windows Phone, and it looked great. And while it’s definitely a massive paradigm shift for Windows, with the user interface mostly switching to Metro, which is a sea change, what’s interesting is the fact that Microsoft also allows you to switch to the conventional desktop, mostly to run apps. which are not Metro apps. And Metro apps will only be available through the Windows Store, sparking a debate about whether it’s too Apple-like. While I like that my iPad is secure and that there is a vibrant app store with tens of thousands of great apps, I don’t want to have to rely on Microsoft to approve apps before I can install them in the first place. Unless Microsoft has clear and concise requirements for Metro apps to be submitted and made available on the App Store, with at least some kind of democratic process among developers, it is cause for concern whether eventually, with future versions of Windows , you won You won’t be able to run traditional Windows applications that weren’t built with the Metro user interface.
On the positive side, though, Windows 8 is a massive change for the entire product, and it makes sense what Steve Ballmer referred to last year as the “riskiest product gamble yet.” It’s incredibly risky and kudos to Microsoft for taking a gamble to innovate with Windows 8 that hasn’t been seen for many years. Of course, Windows 7 was and is a great version of Windows; but Windows 8 looks to be the most risky and exciting next Windows release in a long time. And it has the innovative Metro user interface that is primarily interacted with through the use of touch computers.
Go to Metro UI with Windows 8.
Like I said before, it’s interesting why Microsoft allows you the option to go to the traditional desktop UI as well, along with Metro. It seems that most of the applications that we will have installed will be traditional applications that use the traditional Windows desktop environment, and when we update the computers, all those applications will be installed. Switching between traditional apps and Metro apps seems cumbersome; but I’m sure from the beginning Microsoft will make sure there are plenty of Metro apps available by allowing developers to submit Metro apps to the Windows Store before Windows 8 is released to the public.
However, with that said, I hope that there are a lot of free apps available in the Windows Store, and that open source software is also allowed in the Windows Store, because there are a lot of open source Windows apps that we probably all use. days. which I hope those developers can make available with the Metro UI for shipping and availability in the Windows Store.
So what is the problem with Windows 8?
Microsoft has promised that it will make it easier to use a keyboard and mouse throughout Metro, because in developer preview, if you have a lot of apps open, it’s cumbersome to switch between multiple open Metro and traditional desktop apps, and it feels incredibly awkward. natural. to use a keyboard and a mouse to use Metro. However, with that said, I do believe that as Windows 8 launches, new laptop and desktop form factors (such as monitors and all-in-ones) from various manufacturers will emerge in partnership with Microsoft, along with pure tablet computers. . also, maybe it can be docked for use with an external keyboard and mouse for those times when touchscreen use is inappropriate.
While the only input method for the iPad is touchscreen, I think for proper computers the primary input method will probably be touch, but for times when touch technology is inadequate or inaccurate then you can probably connect a mouse (or if the mouse is used via Bluetooth technology, for example). I believe that people can have the best of both worlds, and this is what Microsoft is trying to push with Windows. Do you already have a Windows 7 computer, with a keyboard and mouse? No problem, use Windows 8 with just your keyboard and mouse – it will work just as seamlessly as a touchscreen device would.
I think Windows 8 could be a winner. And I think it will come before Apple has something similar, and I think Apple has the same vision in mind, that touchscreen devices are the future of computers. People are concerned that mobile-based user interfaces will come in future versions of Windows and Mac OS X, and while this is the case with Metro, where it feels more like a mobile user interface (because it’s Metro), I think the iPad is locked. -down and not customizable in part because it is purely a mobile device. While Windows 8 is for proper computers, and I think Microsoft is well aware of this.
