Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

jim kennelly — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:34:59 GMT

Looks like it's optimized for touch - need some more mouse clues to do stuff since I don't have a clue. I just keep clicking on random stuff.

on this page -->Put the comment box on the top so I don't have to scroll through 6000 comments

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

James — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:19:58 GMT

Regarding the Ribbon....here's a suggestion.

When the Ribbon is hidden/minimized, and then you click on one of the Ribbon Tabs to show it, then it would be lovely if the other tabs in the Ribbon would then hot track when the mouse cursor hovers over them .... a la menu top level menu item behaviour.....this would make it infinitely easier to quickly be able to scan whats in a ribbon.

Being more aggressive you could also hottrack the initial Ribbon tab interaction i.e. with a collapsed Ribbon as soon the mouse cursor is over a Ribbon tab title show it..thus alleviating an additional RSI inducing click.

Failing that, add the Visual Studio 2011 ability to filter/search for commands so they can be found easily.

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Esmaeil Salimi — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:34:35 GMT

Thanks, just keep up the good work!

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Dean — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:20:54 GMT

I'm sick of all this worrying about the UI. People are nuts. You will never please them no matter what. The best way to solve this crazyness is to let people be able to modify the UI as much as possible down to the smallest feature as possible and leave it at that. Done. But put Group Policy options in place so us admins can fix things the way we want them.

To me GROUP POLICY is where the worrying should be focussed on. That's where the people are put in control and what really matters. Windows 8 should be totally and completely Group Policy controlable. Don't make desicions where it's our way or no way. Like with the warning dialog boxes.

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

Will Kimmerer — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:16:37 GMT

What will be the level of integration of Live and Hotmail... I would love to see full integration, with Xbox WP7 and other Microsoft devices... Also I know this may seem a bit off-subject but Is there the possibility of better integration with Android. I know there's a OneNote app for Ipad, but I would love to see a bit more integration and openness on this front.

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

Daniel Salunga — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:32:54 GMT

About the Ribbon UI. I think what makes other people dislike it and likes the classic Menu is that it requires a lot of clicks. You always need to click a ribbon tab in order to view the actions under it. Whereas in the classic menu, you only need to click once and then just hover to the other menus to expand them. My suggestion is, why not do the same to Ribbon UI: when the user clicks a ribbon tab, they just need to hover to another ribbon tab to view the actions, without the need to click again.

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

Endicott84 — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:11:51 GMT

I have very much been enjoying the blogs and I am looking forward to the new version of Windows. For the videos that you are embedding in the blog, is it possible that they could be in Windows Media Format or Silverlight? The MP4 format doesn't seem to work as well.

re: Reflecting on our first conversations (part 1)

Den — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:56:47 GMT

@Steven Sinofsky

What will be the role of WPF/Silverlight in the new Windows 8 world?

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Mr Spain — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:36:44 GMT

hello can y ejoy this same lenguage in Spanish ??

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George Ellwood — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:03:58 GMT

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