How Windows Red can fix Windows 8: The right strategy for Microsoft

[Chiefcrowe]

What do you think of this theoretical proposal?

https://www.infoworld.com/d/microso...-the-right-strategy-microsoft-219633?page=0,0

 

[sm625]

The problem is all software related, due to an extreme lack of creativity from microsoft as well as 3rd parties (ie skins). For example, take mouse gestures. If I make a gesture near my window border, and then wave the cursor around, it should know that I want to do somethign with the border. Who knows what, but the point is that the interface should switch modes. Switch to a mode that lets me resize, or move the border, or move the whole window, or magnify, or maximize, or god knows what; stuff we havent even thought of yet. The point is that there is nothing right now. All we have right now is a cursor that changes to a stupid <---> that does only a fraction of what it should. It is horribly dumbed down. They never expanded upon it. They just created it 20 years ago and never went anywhere with it.

Every aspect of the desktop interface is like this. It's not that its bad, its just barren of features. It's not like iOS is any better. You cant do anything on iOS, it is pure garbage... how am I supposed to copy a link and paste it, then copy an image and paste it, all while watching a video on the side? Good luck with that on any crapple device... You can do it on windows it just needs the software talent to implement the interface features like I described so you can do it easier, faster, more intuitively. And there are many features that need updating, I only picked one: a window border. Unfortunately all the 3rd party talent seems to have left Windows to go write stupid dumbed down idiot apps for that stupid aforementioned piece of crapple garbage.

I feel it is really a 3rd party issue. There is no reason a person or a company cannot create a touch interface skin that mounts right on top of windows. But no one does it. I dont think microsoft will ever do it, but they shouldnt even have to. They have a platform that is open enough to allow anyone to write software that can redo the entire UI. But no one does. Hence the dearth of creativity I mentioned. People would rather just fight with the dumbed down crapple devices, and accept the fact that they really cant do anything with them.

 

[colonelciller]

i dont believe that it is logical or sane to say that the interface problems are there because 3rd parties haven't created a replacement for the one provided by microsoft. that's just silly

 

[colonelciller]

from the link i gather that Windows Red Pro is essentially windows 7 with metro deleted and all the windows 8 "under the hood improvements" kept and implemented... that is the right track to take.

if and only if the windows 7 interface remains unchanged
if and only if the quick launch bar functionality is not blocked/deleted
if and only if the dumbing down/removal of various explorer functionalities is not implemented
if and only if ribbon bars are not implemented anywhere that they aren't in windows 7

...then we would have some progress