Re:Windows 8.1 Preview
by oth3r on Thursday June 27, 2013 @12:13AM
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The first thing I looked for on that page was an image showing the Start button they've added back. I guess it's pretty telling that none of those pictures include the desktop and everything is showcasing the tablet interface now.
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Re:Windows 8.1 Preview
by dragonwriter on Thursday June 27, 2013 @12:28AM
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The Windows Modern UI isn't intended as a "tablet interface"; its intended as a form-factor agnostic new interface, the desktop is the legacy interface.
Now, I'm not saying I like the interface -- just that it isn't the "tablet interface".
The enhanced fullscreen browsing is pretty much also almost tablet only. Even on a 15" screen having fullscreen browser feels unusable to me – either the site has more-or-less fixed layout with a wide empty strip on each side, or it fills the entire screen so that lines are so long they are unreadable. I can't really imagine what it is to browse fullscreen on an even bigger screen.