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Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Looks a bit like Powerpoint. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

    1. Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint. by thend · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The entire MetroUI looks like Powerpoint in my opinion. At first I thought it would grow on me. Seems like it's growing like a tumor though and it's completely useless. RDP in Metro isn't my idea of how I want to manage multiple servers. This is a huge step back and like a commenter below said, very much like DOSSHELL.

      Who decided "full screen apps" was the way of the future again?? Could we please hop in the Delorean and take care of them??

    2. Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint. by shutdown+-p+now · · 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.

    3. Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint. by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I have shown Metro and even let them play with the thing to over 200 customers now, average folks like Suzy the checkout girl and Brian the backhoe operator and you know what? THEY HATE IT. Not just unfamilar, not just unsure, but HATE IT and want nothing to do with it! Now folks I have had just about every alpha and beta of Windows since Win2K and I have NEVER gotten that kind of response ever, not even with WinME or Vista. With ME they thought it looked nice...until it BSODed of course (stupid mixing of VXD and WDM drivers!) and with Vista they thought it looked "cool"...until they saw how damned slow it was on the then current hardware, but this? they fucking HATE it, they loathe it, they have NO desire to run it, in fact here is the closest i got to a "compliment" for Metro, by a LOL customer named Ms Pipkin: "Why that's a nice looking cell phone picture...is that Android? I hear that's nice...what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Why that is stupid! Why do I want a cell phone on my computer?"

      You know they are fucked when the only questions I got about win 8 wasn't any of the ones before like "How does it run?" or "Does the stuff I use run on it?" but instead "But YOU can still get me Windows 7 if I need another one, right? You got some source, right?". Hell I wish I could find the video again from the little Yahoo shill girl, they give her any crap product and she is always "You should buy it! Buy it now! No seriously you should go out and buy it now!" and when they gave her Windows 8 her video was "Uhhhh...maybe you should wait until you get something with touch before you buy Windows 8? Yeah that's what you should do, buy a tablet and THEN buy Windows 8!" which for her is "My eyes! The goggles they do nothing!". I mean that's fricking sad when the girl that got giddy over a universal remote can't even muster enough perky to shill for your product and has this kind of...lost and confused look on her face through the entire video, damn it was funny!

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  2. Re:I like this by h4rr4r · · 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.

  3. Re:I like this by Gobelet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.

  4. Metro UIr (beta)! by ebunga · · 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 · · 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.

  5. Re:Embrace Metro by Tridus · · 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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  6. Re: Metro Going Away by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 4, Funny

    It might. PlaysForSure went away, Zune went away, various of those Live services went away. I even have the marketing slogan!

    "Ride the Metro to see the Vistas out the Windows with Me!"

    They can fix all their branding in one sentence!

    Uh oh, I think I just found a new sig for a week.

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