Windows 8 Sneak Peek

[Drastic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

[Rooftop]

Unexpected. 

Seems that MS lost the race to make phones work like computers, so instead are planning to make computers work like phones.  I reckong my Wife/sister/mum would love it.  Looks like a pain in the arse to do any work on though.

[thesaintv12]

I reckong my Wife/sister/mum would love it.  Looks like a pain in the arse to do any work on though.

I agree, it looks lovely, and might be great on a tablet.  I just can't see it being as quick as the good old keyboard and mouse though.  I don't really want to leave finger prints all over my screen either...or maybe I should just stop eating at my desk?

[Travoli]

It does look pretty slick, and they put some thought into it.  But... yeah it'd have to be on a "play" tablet. 

I see they are still squaring everything off.  Making the interface feel a little more organic couldn't hurt.

[littleman]

Yeah, I was thinking that it would be great on a tablet, but horrible on a desktop.  That touch-centric interface would get in the way of getting any work done.

[bill]

I don't know...this might just work on a desktop as well. I could see that Start screen getting old fairly quickly but the navigation could work with a mouse. I'm a fan of mouse gestures in my browsers (starting with Opera) and it can make browsing and navigation a lot easier. Imagine that expanded to the entire OS. It could have some potential.

I can already tell that Windows 8 is going to be a real love it or hate it OS. All the old fogeys will be clinging to their copies of Windows 7 and saying they'd rather use Vista than Windows 8.

[Drastic]

There's an option for the traditional desktop if you want it.