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Julie Larson-Green is working to fill Sinofsky's shoes






Julie Larson-Green [Image Source: Microsoft]








Source: MIT Technology Review

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RE: W9
By Da W on 12/15/2012 11:31:38 AM , Rating: 1
I didn,t see that muh angry backlash against Windows 7 when it came out. I'm speaking about sales, and i have high doubts this Windows will be a commercial success.

I used Windows 8 since it came out. I don't hate it, Under the Hood it's a masterpiece of engineering. But after 2 months i barely use any metro apps. Even metro explorer is a pain to use compared to desktop explorer. I use a long ribbon of shortcuts that shows only icons and go through them all every morning for exemple. Doing this in metro, like switching tabs, is a pain.
And they need a dock in metro. The taskbar is the most useful thing in the desktop. Ios, android and OS x have a dock. It would be perfectly doable in metro, even with auto-hide enabled by default.
That multitasking of 2 apps with one taking 1/3 of screen and the other 2/3. Seriously? There's no 1/2-1/2 option? Why? Why can't we split the screen horizontaly? Why can,t we split 4-ways?
How about the top of the screen that's barely used in apps? That would be a good place to put context-sensitive menus a la ribbon.
The left of the screen used for apps switching, i would transform it to an universal back button, since we would have a dock at the bottom to swith apps.
I still use ZUNE on the desktop since i can't figure out how to manage playlists with the xbox music apps. It's like all their apps are made to PURCHASE something more easily than BROWSING THROUGH YOUR OWN CONTENT.
Anyway, still holding on to them stocks. Office is still great.


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