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As many, I'm highly interested in any new versions of Windows, and especially in the one that will take over the excellent Windows 7.
So I instantly downloaded 'Windows Developer Preview' that has just been released (just for my birthday :D), and I thought it would be interesting to post a screenshot for all to see. Both for showing it to those that are not going to test it, but also to discuss about it.

Here are my first thoughts :

For now there's good and bad things, and the experience is not perfect with the bugs that appears sometimes (the first time it started, I had a full green screen, the background and metro icons were there but invisible, nice bug ! ^^).

The important thing I think is that it opens a wide range of possibilities that will sure be exploited by everyone, there will be as many Windows apps as there are in the Apple Appstore, but they will be made for our desktops !

My main concern is to test another version where you could actually customize the metro start page, with different backgrounds, and different kind of icons, to get something more appealing than this ^^ I want to easily create metro-style icons for all my apps, to avoid having a nice Internet Explorer next to a ugly Firefox ^^

And the main problem for now, to me, is ergonomics, look how hard it is to restart the pc next to 7 ?! The shortest way is ctrl+alt+del... that's a huge step back I think. The interactions between start page and desktop are bad as it is now... And I wish I had an easy possibility to actually end the processes of the applications that are launched, and not keep them all launched in the background, taking all the RAM (I think about the time when I'll have Photoshop + Illustrator + Dreamweaver + etc... mostly !! Or we're going to need 16go RAM at least !!

An option to start the pc directly on the desktop would be great too, but I think it will appear anyway.

And finally, I HATE the ribbon :D, why would I need this hundreds of options at all time, the omnibar in Windows 7 was the best (and I even delete it via the msstyles ^^), it's another step back to me...

But I'm still positive about it, it's close from Windows 7 but opens more posibilities, that's finally something new in the desktop universe :)


What do you think ?


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~Icedrake99 Jan 2, 2012
Tried Windows 8 myself, then switched back to 7. The whole killing processes thing is extremely irritating. As far as I could see, there was no way to close any of the little boxes on the main metro page. They only "suspended". The only way to close them was to open up Task Manager, find the processes, and then kill them. I definitely agree with you that that is a step backwards.
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~oxtx Nov 23, 2011
ive been using your soft 2.0 theme 4 along time and win 8 preview looks way worse to me...hope u gonna do a win 8 version of soft theme when its released :)

cuz i really hate that sharp corners on windows or buttons especially on a desktop os...it may look good on mobile but on desktop a bit rounded is better...
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Mood: Love ~TheMETROlover Oct 22, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ummm............Wallpaper? Looks Freaking Cool and suits this UI!
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^ap-graphik Oct 22, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
Oh right, I forgot to mention it, here you go : [link]
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~TheMETROlover Oct 22, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank You :D
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~chilinik Sep 21, 2011  Student Interface Designer
How can i get copy of one for myself? Thanx
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^ap-graphik Sep 21, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
"Windows Developer Preview", Google is your friend :)
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~MrBaracu Sep 20, 2011
My english is not so good so i don't understand all of your text.
This is windows 8? oO
It looks totaly like win7 with a new UI... nothing more.
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^ap-graphik Sep 22, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
It's Windows Developer Preview, so it's a preview version of Windows 8, yes, but not even Beta.

Yes it's close from Windows 7, but I think it's good that way, Win 7 is a good OS to work with when Metro is not that good (for now) professionally.

(If only I had better teachers I should be able to speak German too, but I'm not :D)
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~MrBaracu Sep 22, 2011
Thank you :)
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