Windows 9 leak: How the new Start menu could backfire - berryofficust

The latest Windows 9 leaks, showing a Start-menu optical fusion of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, beg the question: Microsoft, wherefore are you scooping meth cream over a hot dog?

(Editor's Note: It's also worth checking out the leaked Windows 9 Start page video which shows a lot more, including what appears to be the power to kill the Start Page totally.)

Along the surface, there's actually no more reason for the straightforward, ikon-goaded attack of the Windows-7-wish lefthand menu Browning automatic rifle to coexist with the Windows-8.1-like, brightly colored tiles arrayed to the right of it. And we hardly yield attention to Live Tiles anyway: A typical Windows 8.1 exploiter bounces to the Bulge out page for a wink to launch an app, and that's information technology. There's not enough time for the user's eyes to track the information Microsoft could be showing you via its Live Tiles before you're off in your new app.

More of the same…operating theater not

Only yes, there is a reason that Microsoft may live trying to combine the cardinal: because the icons pictured in the screenshots are true Live Tiles.

That's not always the case. So many another tiles on a representative Windows 8.1 Take off page simply show a static application icon, much as launch buttons for OneNote, or PowerPoint, or Adobe Reviewer. Many users without doubt still wonder what the point of all those massive icons floating in blank space actually are, and many wondered how to eliminate them when they appeared in Windows 8.

But in the screenshot of the leaked card, the righthand Tiles should actually do something. If a user establishes an Outlook.com account, it's a sure count that the Mail tile will flip adequate reveal new email. Or the News tile will save the headlines. Or Calendar will foreground a user's approaching appointments. (Yes, a user could also enjoyment them equally well navigable shortcuts to favorite apps, but that's kind of a waste of space, zero?)

Thus it's leaving to cost up to both Microsoft and the user to manage those tiles effectively.

From a selling linear perspective, yet, we're stuck in the same quandary as before: if Microsoft leaves the Live Tiles there, the same users World Health Organization were turned off away Windows 8 may non getting even. And if they hide them entirely, then Microsoft tacitly acknowledges that the Windows 8 design schema was a mistake.

That's the tough choice I'd take a leak. I don't exponent eliminating the Living Tiles of Windows 8 entirely, but I'd leave them as an option for power users. Then I'd either put back the Charms barroom with one that exposes a row of these tiles, surgery else replace them with a series of small, popup notifications.

Microsoft doubtless has its own design goals in judgment, but it's not too late for a slender feedback. How say you, users?

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/435239/windows-9-leak-how-the-new-start-menu-could-backfire.html

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