Future Windows 10 update will reportedly add floating Start Menu and rounded corners

[dangh]

Start menu in the center is a must with current ultrawide screens. Not going to get neck cramps because of running some apps.

 

[psycros]

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2783.windows-7-aero-peek-feature.aspx

..seems people forgot that we already had rounded corners in windows long time ago. People mostly hated them. Then again, those people are probably the outspoken minority on the web. :/

The latter. Nobody complained about rounded corners or "skeumorphism" except anal-retentive art school dropouts.

 

[mrSister]

Start menu in the center is a must with current ultrawide screens. Not going to get neck cramps because of running some apps.

Valid complain. However, I expect them to allow the user to choose where to place the menu.

 

[Waco John]

Finally! Rounded corners. There IS a God.

 

[Resonator]

Tech Support: Please right-click on the Start button.

End User: Where's that?

Tech Support: In the bottom left-hand corner of your screen, on the task bar.

End User: Um, I don't see it.

Tech Support: <sigh>

 

[Fox God Records]

Just a further step along the road to a One Size Fits All, cellphone-centric OS. If I wanted my triple monitor desktop PC to look like a friggin' cellphone, I would set it up to look like a friggin' cellphone.

I am running WIN10, but my start menu is straight outta WIN7. I dumped all the MS bloatware that I could.

Cortana? Muzzled.
XboX integration? Deleted.
Store? Closed.
Office? Gone.
All of that other junk that nobody in their right mind asked Windows to do? Closed off, and inaccessible.

It's bad enough that my cellphone wants to upload all of the pictures I take to 'The Cloud', I didn't spend all that cash on multiterrabyte drives just to store text notes in 'The Cloud'.

The Cloud is just new-speak for: Someone Else's Computer.

If Microsoft wants to improve WIN10, they can dump all of the preinstalled "Apps" (when did programs become apps?), give us a bare-bones OS, and let US decide what crapware we need.

We've only been asking for that since... what, 98SE?

 

[SeaMatrix]

Rounded Corners... A mass "Drama Queen Panic" over some rounded corners... Wow! Imagine the chaos if something serious would occur...

 

[Gezzer]

I guess Microsoft decided to stop paying attention to the metrics for how many people install Classic Shell the moment Win 10 finishes installing.

Or alternatively this update will break Classic Shell completely. The "metro" UI has one purpose, to make windows a mobile/touch centric OS. Replacement UIs more like Win7 and earlier (like CS) run counter to this aim, sooo...

 

[Gezzer]

Does anyone think that this is just change for the sake of change? I can't believe some UI designer has been paid 6 figures to put this crap out.

MS want's a mobile/touch centric UI to leverage all the windows users into XBox and Surface users, eventually it's an easy in into the smart phone market. Problem is Win8/8.1 failed to do this and Win10 was a "compromise" in UI design. A back pedal from 8.1 so to speak. But that doesn't mean that the overall aim has changed. Just that the Win8 UI will have to come back in very gradual changes, so we hopefully don't notice or just give up caring. Don't be surprised if all the UI replacement programs like Classic Shell "mysteriously" stop working one day as well...

 

[DelJo63]

I am sure many would just prefer a STABLE system with reliable updates; SIGH

 

[Markoni35]

Round window corners?? Hello Windows 7.

 

[lazer]

Love the news about Micro$lop and their 'great' progress in screwing their users while telling them how great they are:
other headlines on today's Techspot newsletter:

A vulnerability in Windows Defender went unnoticed for 12 years

Microsoft acknowledges new Windows 10 update can break some webcams, is working on fix

Yet people really believe M$ is a great product!

I refuse to upgrade my win7. it was the last decent OS that Micro$lop made.

 

[Danny101]

Windows 10X is looking like a window manger you would find on Linux.

 

[Fox God Records]

Windows 10X is looking like a window manger you would find on Linux.

A bad UI overlay even. I remember writing desktop .bat files for program links on my old x286 that did the same essential thing. Those were the days, man.

 

[duckofdeath]

"Rounded corners" . I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if hundreds of APPLE lawyers are maniacally scribbling lawsuits.

They'll get revenge by demanding Walmart's individual sales data of Shampoo bottles from the last five years.
At least, that's essentially their current legal strategy vs Epic.

 

[TrevA]

I've given up on Richmonds offerings since the win10 notebook I bought was unable to handle the first proper update a year later because of bloated memory requirements. Linux for me.

 

[Stiqy]

"Rounded corners" . I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if hundreds of APPLE lawyers are maniacally scribbling lawsuits.

Better yet, just construct a decent API for the UX and the LET PEOPLE MAKE THEIR OWN. Instead of forcing people to jam and jerry-rig the interfaces they actually want into Windows with things like Classic Shell and rainmeter, MS could just make it easy for people use whatever homebrew or communitybrew interface they want.

Edit: Sorry, meant to be a reply to Uncle Al's comment.