Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, a new pre-public version of Windows Blue (build 9364) has leaked online and it reveals a handful of features that are coming in the next big Microsoft Windows 8 update." Several sites have screenshots from the build; Hot Hardware says "Assuming this is all completely legitimate, the most obvious change pertains to the Metro UI, including greater flexibility in sizing Live Tiles and customizing the Start screen, particularly as the Personalize setting (among others, including Devices and Share) is now under the Settings charm. The Name Group feature for the Start menu looks a little more polished, too."

Comments

Re:And it still looks like

[DragonTHC]

classic shell brings it back.

or if you're a paying customer, start8 by stardock.

I use Windows 8. I rarely ever see metro.

I find it useless and frustrating. Not because I think it's poorly designed. But because it's forced on the wrong device. My PC is not a tablet.

Re:And it still looks like

[Kjella]

No one wants a degraded experience and whoever made the spec for LCD to only use the max and use software degradation tricks to still display should be taken out in a field and shot!

The old CRTs don't have a physical screen grid, it's just an electron beam in the back that can sweep over the screen and draw how many lines you want it to. On an LCD screen every pixel is a physical unit, they can't move or change size. "Whoever made the spec for LCD" only chose what was possible instead of the impossible. Personally I tend to blame the software if it must run in some specific resolution and games should be configurable so you can play them at high resolutions with low quality. There's no good excuse for why a game should do worse at rendering directly in high resolution instead of rendering in low resolution and then upscaling.