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Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation?

Posted by timothy on from the keyboards-with-giant-letters dept.

nk497 writes "A UX designer working at Microsoft has taken to Reddit to explain why Windows 8's Metro screen isn't designed for power users — but is still good news for them. Jacob Miller, posting as 'pwnies,' said Metro is the 'antithesis of a [power user's desktop],' and designed for 'your computer illiterate little sister,' not for content creators or power users. By splitting Windows into Metro and the desktop, Microsoft has created space for casual users as well as power users." Update: 02/18 18:14 GMT by S : Further explanations from Miller are available now.

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  1. Really?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And this would explain why they use the Metro interface on Server 2012? So my illiterate little sister can mange servers in the data center?

    1. Re:Really?!?! by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you met most IIS developers?

    2. Re:Really?!?! by lgw · · Score: 5, Funny

      I somehow misread the headline, confusing it with the headline below it on the /. front page: "Windows 8 Metro Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity'". Sadly, I was mistaken.

      --
      Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  2. Re:Well, look at the bright side by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm surprised they admit to being a 'UX designer'. They're so widely hated after the Gnome 3 and Metro debacles that, pretty soon, they'll have to claim they were playing piano in a brothel for those years to make their resume look more reputable.

  3. Winkey+D by darkestsoul · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and get off my lawn.

  4. I'M FROM MICROSOFT by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    "AND I'M WORKING HARD, to keep you little sister ILLITERATE!"

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  5. Re: Whoosh. by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammit, your post is such a mixed bag I want to mod it with a complex number.

  6. Re:Astruturf? by fsck-beta · · Score: 1, Funny

    lol Reddit user, UX designer at MS, heck looking at your Reddit post history: you are really going for the biggest loser trophy this year.

  7. Powershell is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Powershell is a BSD pipelined interface with all the lovely syntax of Visual Basic oriented around objects in layers all the way down.

    It is like an onion, you keep peeling back the layers, and each one makes you want to cry more.

  8. Re:Completely missing the point by gbjbaanb · · Score: 3, Funny

    ah, but Metro is bad for non-power users too and they can't avoid using it either.

    Its just bad all round.