Windows 8 Metro Theme Created For Rooted Android Tablets

MikeatWired writes "Now here's a cool one for you tablet users that like to tweak the appearance of your UI! XDA member BroBot175 has created a Metro UI theme for all tablets running Honeycomb or ICS! The theme is a fully functioning replica of Windows 8 that allows you to create your own tiles, and organize them however you want."

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[hairyfeet]

Hi there Microsoft shill! tell me, how's the dental plan? Do you get a 401k?

If you actually watched their last presentation you would see why windows 8 is written in fail, they mention TOUCHSCREENS like 30 times! they even came up with ever more absurd scenarios of people getting touchscreens, buying touchscreen laptops (ignoring that the form factor is NOT touch friendly and that laptops are completely cutthroat and it would add a good $100+ to the cost) touchscreens for their desktops (when a 17 inch touchscreen is $300 and a 24 inch non touch is $145) and the final bust a gut moment was when he talked about how real time traders would be buying 3 screens...with a touchscreen in the middle! because when every second counts and one wrong trade can fuck your life up you WANT to you life to hinge on whether your greasy fingers hits the right spot LOL!

Lets cut the bullshit and be honest, okay? we're geeks right? we know there is a REASON why Apple doesn't run iOS on their macbooks...its because the cell phone UI sucks ass on large non touch screens! So why would a company like MSFT do such a dumbshit move? Its actually very simple and two fold...1.-MSFT knows that PCs will NEVER be a massive growth market again, because they passed 'good enough" at dual cores and are a mature tech, whereas cell phones and tablets are hot so this is a Hail Mary pass trying to get them into that market. 2.- Every developer should be insulted because they are betting you are REALLY stupid, we are talking retarded scrote here. You see they think they can bullshit you into believing "Well if i just write for Windows 8 herp derp i can write once and have the desktop AND cell phones!" while ignoring either your program has the sophistication of a fart app and thus shits all over the power you have on X86 desktops and laptops OR you end up with something that will suck the living shit out of a cell phone battery and get the users hating your guts. Great choice huh?

But those of us with brains know what the truth is and it is thus...people buy Windows for WINDOWS PROGRAMS, those bazillion and one programs that run on X86 Windows, be it Quickbooks/Quicken, photoshop, games, or one of the literally millions of programs written for Windows over the years, which thanks to backwards compatibility mostly still run after all these years. There is NO POINT in WOA because it doesn't run Windows programs and never will! ARM and X86 is like the difference between a Yugo and a Mac truck, one is all about power saving and the other is power incarnate. But MSFT refuses to accept they are the new IBM and move on so instead of doing something smart, like say spinning off the mobile division so they can just call themselves Metro OS or something and sink or swim on their own, nope instead you have them royally shitting all over their sacred cow to try to force themselves into a market that has done moved on without them.

It won't work, it WILL fail, and all it will do is give them a shitpile of Win 8 discs to go with the Vista pile while folks just stick with Win 7. Just like IBM and the mainframe Windows desktops won't go away but they won't be replaced every 3 years like they were during the MHz wars. The only good thing that may come from win 8 is I doubt the board will put up with another Ballmer failfest, i don't care if he IS Gates' little buddy. hopefully he'll get a pink slip than they can put one of the office guys at the helm who will again focus on what they do best, which is build desktops for business and consumer PCs. And sorry about the length but this Dilbert-ish move really pisses me off and frankly all these anon shills MSFT has put out in force to try to make the shit smell of Win 8 into roses is frankly a little sickening. like we all haven't tried Win 8 CP already!