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Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager
CWmike writes "Microsoft said today it will 'ribbonize' the file manager in next year's Windows 8, adding Explorer to the short list of integrated applications that already sport the interface in Windows 7. Microsoft's Alex Simons, director of program management, released screenshots of the new ribbon interface planned for Explorer (scroll way down). 'We evaluated several different UI command affordances including expanded versions of the Vista/Windows 7 command bar, Windows 95/Windows XP style toolbars and menus, several entirely new UI approaches, and the Office style ribbon,' explained Simons. 'Of these, the ribbon approach offered benefits in line with our goals.' Plans by Microsoft and others to ribbonize applications have often met resistance. 'We knew that using a ribbon for Explorer would likely be met with skepticism by a set of power users, but there are clear benefits,' Simons said."
If you had BOTHERED to read the actually article, you'd realize that there is MORE vertical space for the list of files in Windows 8 Explorer WITH the Ribbon, than in Windows 7 Explorer, without it. AND you can collapse the Ribbon, so that there is still MORE vertical space available.
Your complaint is without merit.
- Spryguy
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
I've been using command lines since 1978.
They suck as much today as they did then.
Yes, they're good for a few things, but NOTHING beats a good GUI for file management. And by good GUI, I mean the Macintosh Finder. It's been just about perfect since the late '80s. Today, you've got to make a few changes to the defaults so that double-clicking a folder opens a new window, but it's still the best file manager ever written.
And you can even drag and drop files to the command line if you really want to type stuff.