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."

Comments

Re:And I thought Office 2010 was hard to use

[anshulajain]

Bubbles reminds me of the original vision for KDE4, except that "Bubbles" was/is referred to as "Widgets". Information flows to and from the internet into these
"widgets" in the KDE4 desktop. They have stuff like Facebook/Twitter feeds directly accessible and writable through these widgets and something like an OpenSocial framework for social interaction. Not exactly the same, but the idea seems to be very similar to KDE4.

Re:And I thought Office 2010 was hard to use

[geedubyoo]

Microsoft ought to take a leaf out of Autodesk's book. The ribbon interface was added to AutoCAD 2009; however there were two big differences. 1) AutoCAD's ribbon is fully customisable (as is just about everything in AutoCAD). 2) The ribbon can be turned off, and the menu bar and tool bars turned back on. In fact, it is possible to make AutoCAD look - almost - like it did pre Windows.