The Metro interface, taking the desktop back to 1985?

[Hugo Drax]

It seems Microsoft considers the Metro interface and related APIs(WinRT) as the "Cocoa" of Windows, and Win32/64 as "Carbon"

The problem with Metro on the desktop is it seems to be taking the user interface back to 1985. When windows 1.0 did not support overlapping windows and only tiled windows.

It does makes sense to have a single window on a tablet. But on a desktop it makes absolutely no sense at all.

Microsoft failed to shoehorn the desktop model on to the tablet, so it seems they think trying to shoehorn the tablet model on to the desktop is supposed to be a recipe for success.

Do we really want to go back 27 years to the past when it comes to the user interface?

 

[Maximilian]

Well since they seem to be reusing their old interface maybe they could reuse their old marketing video as well:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239

:awe:

 

[LV3]

They actually made something worse than 'Don't copy that floppy' D:

 

[corkyg]

Don't try to make my PC look like a smart phone or tablet! Will stick with Win 7 until it dies. The Metro interface adds layers on layers. Besides that, it is just plain ugly.