Microsoft Unveils A New Look

Seiuchi said:
I have a 6core cpu and 3 vid cards and a ton of memory. Why cant we get an animated desktop like android.

Win 8 is going 2d!!! Cant we get android for the pc and still be backwards compatible with all my old games and steam.
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Microsoft already tried that with Vista, and honestly, while it was cool for a while it was really nothing more than a gimmick. It's honestly nothing I miss or really want anymore.
 
DeathPrincess said:
Not just breakfast. You can have savory crepes.

Though you could also have tortillas and crepes and pancakes as a multiflat meal...
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It's not only multi-flat, it's also sort of multi-cultural............

Crepes can also be flambe-d.......nothing like a little FIRE with your dessert.:eek:
 
Everyone bitching really doesn't care. They'll still be using Windows and Xbox 5 years from now and they'll still be bitching then. They just like to bitch.
 
For reference, the best crêpes are with Nutella. But, that's probably not fair because Nutella is so good on its own, combining it with crêpes is just not a fair contest against other baked foods.

As for the ad, err... promo I kept hearing that "One of these things is not like the others" skit. That is to say, the Xbox logo is completely out of place in Microsoft's new 'hip to be square' world. I don't get it. Cadillac did it with their cars by doing away with curves in favor of using straight edges to design everything and the results have been shockingly hideous. And now Microsoft uses the same "straight or go home" approach and it just looks gopping awful. And I like squares and rectangles, they're my favorite shapes. But these are just so horribly boring and uninspiring. They're like the way text books looked in the 70s of block print and two or three colors with no pictures. Little did Marty McFly know that 2012 wouldn't herald in flying cars and hoverboards but instead an OS with design roots stuck in the mid-60s.
 
/usr/home said:
Everyone bitching really doesn't care. They'll still be using Windows and Xbox 5 years from now and they'll still be bitching then. They just like to bitch.
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I'm not sure if the dogs have opinions about Windows or the Xbox, but I'm sure they'd like crepes! :)
 
Flat, square & very, very dull. Like the minimalist artform I don't like it, have never liked it and (most likely) will never like it.

Maybe I'll use win8, most likely I won't for some years to come... 7 is doing fine for everything and I vastly prefer it's look over 8.
Yes, I'm that shallow.
 
Seiuchi said:
I have a 6core cpu and 3 vid cards and a ton of memory. Why cant we get an animated desktop like android.

Win 8 is going 2d!!! Cant we get android for the pc and still be backwards compatible with all my old games and steam.
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You can still animate your desktop wallpaper with Dreamscene. You can find free animated wallpapers and Dreamscene themes from Dreamscene.org.
 
SkribbelKat said:
From a systems administrator perspective, I'm too busy looking in dumpsters for my next meal to notice that Microsoft isn't still selling licenses for Windows Advanced Server 2000 and I have no idea what this why everyone keeps asking me about new operating systems when they know our software doesn't work on anything newer than Windows NT 4.
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Oh you work in Government as well??
 
Terminus said:
This is how I would see it:

Blue is Windows & Azure
Red is Windows Phone
Green is Xbox
Yellow\Orange is Office

Bonus: Purple is Visual Studio
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Except that office is "red" in the video, so that leaves "yellow" as a free color.

So, as someone else asked earlier, any guesses on what "yellow" covers in their portfolio ?
 
Brent_Justice said:
They might as well just rename Microsoft to "Tiles" or "Metrosoft" gone are "Windows" and now we have Tiles, or Squares, Squaresoft? Oops, taken.

Seriously, I don't like the fact that the Desktop is being taken away from me in Windows 8. They are phasing out the desktop for the Metro interface. I like the Desktop! I want the Desktop back, with the Start menu! Bring back the MS I loved, with "Windows!"
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This will most likely sound like im trolling, but im actually curious if you have used Windows 8 yourself ?

Because, as it is right now, the desktop a single click/keypress away.
 
Naed said:
Except that office is "red" in the video, so that leaves "yellow" as a free color.

So, as someone else asked earlier, any guesses on what "yellow" covers in their portfolio ?
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Probably Live services. Bing, Messenger, Skydrive, Hotmail (except Hotmail is now called Outlook and it's blue by default).
 
Naed said:
This will most likely sound like im trolling, but im actually curious if you have used Windows 8 yourself ?

Because, as it is right now, the desktop a single click/keypress away.
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Yeah, for desktop that's not there in Windows 8 I seemed to have used it everyday for a year, even on a tablet.
 
Azhar said:
Probably Live services. Bing, Messenger, Skydrive, Hotmail (except Hotmail is now called Outlook and it's blue by default).
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Well, it could be that way, but it just seems too "small" a collection, and most of them are as you pointed out with Hotmail, integrated in something else or with something else.

Skydrive fx is quite a big part of "windows" itself, and wouldnt Bing be under the azure aka "blue" brand ?
 
Azhar said:
Probably Live services. Bing, Messenger, Skydrive, Hotmail (except Hotmail is now called Outlook and it's blue by default).
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SkyDrive is also blue.

I believe they're forgotten that they have an extra color and just keep packing on the blue.
 
wonderfield said:
SkyDrive is also blue.

I believe they're forgotten that they have an extra color and just keep packing on the blue.
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Well, in regards to the "blue", so far, the applications/services under the "blue" umbrella are all the ones that they need to integrate into the OS itself to make it a "full" service.

insofar as aiming to have a single OS with everything in it goes.
 
It looks horrid. I hate the pastels look. Reminds me to much of 80's pink shirts and horrid ikea furniture.
 
Azhar said:
Plain, maybe, but hardly pixelated.
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I think that people look at the new UI is base form and come to some perhaps incorrect conclusions. When you have hundreds of tiles on the Start Screen with a mix of desktop programs, live tiles, photos, art work, text, it really is something quite vibrant, even a bit chaotic. I've got 500+ tiles on my main Windows 8 dual screen work station. It's really far from plain, there's some much information on that screen know, stocks, news, weather, social networking updates, calendar appointments, trivia, even my horoscope.

And some of the Modern UI apps. Like anything the new UI can be abused and there's some ugly apps out there. But some are simply beautiful, far better looking that most things people have seen on desktops. Some of these apps are just fantastic on the desktop because the size allows for the beauty of the content to take over.

Like anything there are going to those that don't like it but when this UI is well utilized the apps are good looking as anything out there I think. Windows 8 is going to have a tough fight but I just don't see how it won't do well in time. It's the best presentation that's ever been on Windows.
 
I wonder how much they paid some asshole to come up with this shitty logo that my dog could have shit out in about 3 seconds?

Lame.

:rolleyes:
 
450 said:
Windows 1.0 Logo was better.
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This one?

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I think business will like it.

Thumbs up from me. Meaning that it conveys where business need to go.

I could be wrong, but if I owned MS Stock I would like it.
 
heatlesssun said:
I think that people look at the new UI is base form and come to some perhaps incorrect conclusions. When you have hundreds of tiles on the Start Screen with a mix of desktop programs, live tiles, photos, art work, text, it really is something quite vibrant, even a bit chaotic. I've got 500+ tiles on my main Windows 8 dual screen work station. It's really far from plain, there's some much information on that screen know, stocks, news, weather, social networking updates, calendar appointments, trivia, even my horoscope.

And some of the Modern UI apps. Like anything the new UI can be abused and there's some ugly apps out there. But some are simply beautiful, far better looking that most things people have seen on desktops. Some of these apps are just fantastic on the desktop because the size allows for the beauty of the content to take over.

Like anything there are going to those that don't like it but when this UI is well utilized the apps are good looking as anything out there I think. Windows 8 is going to have a tough fight but I just don't see how it won't do well in time. It's the best presentation that's ever been on Windows.
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Psst, we're talking about the logos in the video, not the Metro tiles. Plain.
 
Azhar said:
Psst, we're talking about the logos in the video, not the Metro tiles. Plain.
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Aren't most company logos plain? The idea isn't to convey complexity or present a work of art like the Mona Lisa but and establish a unique indemnity that people will remember. And the colored squares do represent something that's actually in Microsoft products.
 
octoberasian said:
I think the new symbol is trying to evoke a sense of simplicity in their products.

If you think about it, their biggest competitor is Apple. Apple has always touted OSX for being simple for a lot of people, as well as intuitive and easy to use.
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Interesting thing about that is Apple just silently retracted their simplicity campaign they were airing during the olympics due to younger consumers expressing how they felt it portrayed Apple users as inept.

Although the older consumers responded positively bridging that generational gap is a growing problem for these tech companies.

Windows changing their entire branding is extremely risky in this regard. While Apple simply took the ads off their site Windows can't simply rework their boxart, loading screens, and logo.
 
My two youngest children are three and six and their tastes in aesthetics are more sophisticated than that shit.
 
Why, Steve Balmer? I understand Microsoft is trying to compete with Apple, Besides the fact that it's painfully obvious, it's also an awesome goal... The problem is they are doing it wrong, and alienating current customers in the process.
 
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