Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps

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Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @05:01AM from the it-looks-pretty-but-does-it-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has demoed a working prototype of Microsoft Dynamics GP (an ERP package) running on Windows 8, with a full Metro UI. This is the first example of an enterprise app for the Windows 8 metro 'wall.' The one hour keynote is available online behind a short registration form ... (demos start around 40 minutes in). Screenshots available at source."

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Re:I like this by h4rr4r · 2012-03-21 05:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

Too much wasted real estate. Why all the pictures of people?
This is one of those things the MBAs will love to waste everyone's time with, and other than look shiny offer nothing.
Re:I like this by Gobelet · 2012-03-21 05:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.
Metro UIr (beta)! by ebunga · 2012-03-21 05:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

So it turns your zillion dollar ERP system into a Web 2.0-style interactive infographic that makes USA Today look information-dense?
1. Re:Metro UIr (beta)! by glassware · 2012-03-21 05:35 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yep. Demos sure look clean if you remove A) all the necessary controls that allow you to do useful work, and B) the context that helps the human eye figure out how data point relates to the overall picture.
  This is much more a "dashboard demo" than an "application demo". But dashboards are hot right now; everyone wants one. Certainly no harm in offering appealing dashboards except that they obscure how much work is required in order to make a dashboard show something useful in a relevant context.
Re:Embrace Metro by Tridus · 2012-03-21 05:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

If enough companies ignore it and continue putting out normal applications instead, Microsoft will have to deal with that. Metro isn't the sun, it's not inevitable if the market outright rejects it.

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Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint. by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-03-21 05:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

Who decided "full screen apps" was the way of the future again??
That would be all the people who rushed like mad to buy iPads.