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Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8

autospa writes "In a three and a half minute video, Microsoft may have shown the world what it has in store for the eagerly awaited Windows 8. In the video Microsoft showed a radically different interface from past versions of Windows — even Windows 7. Running on Surface 2, the touch-screen successor to the original Microsoft Surface, the device accepts input from a Windows Phone 7 handset (HTC HD7). Gone are the icons that drive Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems of past and present. In their place are 'bubbles' that interact with files and post streaming information off the internet."

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  1. Re:(from article) "eagerly awaited"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Federal Reserve has been asking for a bubble-based UI.

  2. That is the greatest advantage of Microsoft by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know if you use these Linux and such OS, there is so much of cost retraining the employees in the new system. You stick to Microsoft, you can rest assured that all the training costs you have spent will be investments that pay dividend over a long time to come. That is why you should invest in microsoft and stay away from those platforms that keep changing their UI.

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  3. Re:Non story - news at 11 by maird · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's the proof it's Windows 8 at least.

  4. BSOD by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bubble Screen of Death.

    1. Re:BSOD by alostpacket · · Score: 4, Funny

      Somewhere Clippy is sitting unshaven, disheveled, and hung-over -- blowing soap bubbles and popping them in symbolic, disgusted jealousy.

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