New Desktop Interface Flops
It’s not just Windows 8 Metro, other new interfaces, like Linux’s GNOME 3.2, also flop
An interface should be designed to make it easy for people to get their work done. The problem with Windows 8 Metro and Linux GNOME 3.2
is that they neither address any existing audience, nor do a good job of delivering the goods to any actual user. Microsoft just dump decades of
design work on a popular and usable system for one that could be fine only for children.
Metro really is meant to be a touch interface, but guess what; most of us are still going to be running Windows on PCs for years still to come. And, besides while touch is indeed great for tablets and smartphones, I find it a heck of a lot easier to do work with a keyboard and a mouse than I do with a keyboard and a screen I need to smudge up with my fingerprints every minute or two.
What’s even more annoying is that Metro requires me to relearn how to use Windows for no real gain in ease of use, flexibility, or power. It’s not quite change for the sake of change. Microsoft wants Metro to be its universal interface. But, I do think Microsoft is throwing out the baby of its hundreds of millions of Windows desktop user for the very small chance that Metro is going to matter on tablets and smartphones.
GNOME 3.2 is even more annoying, because GNOME was always the
’simple’ Linux desktop interface.
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