Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps

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."

Comments

Looks a bit like Powerpoint.

[SuricouRaven]

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

Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint.

[hairyfeet]

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!

Re:I like this

[Gobelet]

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

Re:Embrace Metro

[Tridus]

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.