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Originally Posted by psicodude
It probably raises more questions than it answers though. Like, is a touchscreen monitor pretty much required now? Is that tile thing just a UI that sits atop of their traditional one? If you watch closely when he switches to excel, you can still see the start button circle thing.
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Microsoft: "Uhh hey guys, how can we make a boat load of money without doing anything? I got it! Let's stick Windows Phone 7 on top of Windows 7 and sell it as a new OS!"
It's a touchscreen interface over Windows 7 basically. I hope there is some way to uninstall or disable it or boot up into the standard UI.
I think it's pretty stupid looking. It's a sad state of computing when our mainstream uses are for tweeting, getting feeds, and sharing pictures with other people. I don't want all that tile crap.
The only useful feature is the sliding panels where it automatically resizes applications (I hate how he calls them apps) when you slide other applications into the workspace. This will make having multiple work windows much easier to handle without 3rd party programs like I have to use right now.
The new interface is not going to be useful for desktops until we start getting 24"+ touchscreen monitors. This may be a good thing for tablets though, if we start getting powerful tablets that are able to run the whole suite of PC programs on top of being a tablet platform.