Computer Store News After the Developer Preview, Consumer Preview to the recent Release Preview, Microsoft's most important strategic deployment for the next five years will soon be finalized with the release of
Windows 8
, but the more users are now The more we and the market analysts are, the more you can't figure out what Microsoft is trying to figure out? Say the tablet market, the less thorough Metro, the support of the program is very poor. It is said that the app development of Win8 and WP7 is basically zero-cost port, but it will absorb a few mobile applications at most, but Microsoft has to slap on the huge iPad application lineup, facing the same application environment as Android tablet, what is Microsoft's trick? Do things that Android can't do, and ensure that the Metro app continues to grow? Perhaps it is relying on Windows' huge market appeal to attract developers, but Win8 tablet has not yet been born, and several desktop users will buy a system that is almost indistinguishable from Win7? At least the Win8 RP table is really unable to answer all the above questions, then the strategic deployment of the tablet market seems to require Microsoft to go home and think again. Maybe Microsoft doesn't have a far-sighted industry vision, so at least consider that Office should not be on the iPad. Does Microsoft still have to develop a Metro version of Office, just as they develop two IEs, is it still counting on all developers to write a reduced version of the Metro version? Since Metro and Windows are so clear, why Microsoft has to put them together, which makes the WP system like a child. When it comes to the desktop market, Metro's form can really adapt. One screen and one program, even Apple's Lion, the full screen is just an application mode that can be switched at any time. The stylization of Metro itself already has a lot of blank and eye-catching fonts. It seems to make people quickly locate information on the screen of the mobile phone. But isn't the screen of the traditional computer to display most of the information as much as possible? Metro seems to be more suitable for the rapid positioning of small information streams, but the user's attention on the desktop computer is inherently distracting, otherwise there are not so many people using applications such as Instapaper Readability. So is Metro somewhat different from the wavelength of desktop users? What is the difference between the desktop interface and Win7? Ribbon? This pile of buttons that can't be used on the screen occupies a large area on the screen. What else can you do in addition to hiding it? Moreover, continue to use Win7, as a daily user, in addition to the resource manager does not have a Ribbon, what else is worse? Even for the user, it also saves hundreds of money to upgrade Win8. To be honest, Metro itself is a design that makes me uncomfortable. High-contrast colors, huge color blocks, and lack of interface details are all destined to be a fresh design language with a very short shelf life. The name Metro is also enough to say that you are walking through the subway and the airport to see a few eyes, but all humans have been watching monotonous words and huge color blocks for several years. I think the incidence of epilepsy in the world will be Therefore, it has increased significantly. Secondly, the dynamic tile that is first promoted on the Metro interface is not as good as the static magnet. It flips over a few pictures and squeezes a pile of text. The amount of information is not large, and the Chinese display is still so wonderful. In general, the Metro interface is more confused than clear, more than necessary, and fancy is more reliable. In this respect, when Microsoft designs a system that will be used frequently every day, it seems that it does not consider the user's learning cost at all. Various operating logics that are independent of the mouse and keyboard allow the user to passively adapt, and a large number of invisible navigation routes are allowed. Users go and climb. In the early days, it may only be confusing to users. Over time, its confusion and its cumbersomeness will probably cause Metro to be marginalized. It is easier to see the convergence of Apple's desktop mobile operating system on Lion and Mountain Lion with Win8. Apple's integration from OS X Lion is objective, that is, the Mac's position in the consumer market is less than iOS, and now the sales growth of the Mac is basically due to the expansion of iOS users. In the touch operation, the lion itself is only the result of Leopard's touch blood. Even the newly introduced operation is not blunt to iOS users. For example, the activation operation of Launchpad is almost exactly the same as the return of the iPad to the main screen. Needless to say, several desktop mobile systems that are common to each other are also reducing the learning costs of transitioning from iOS. On the other hand, Microsoft is sitting on a huge Windows user, and the rise of the WP mobile phone system Metro is just a matter of years. But at Win8, Microsoft forced a large user base to adapt to a small part of the operating language used by people, doing exactly the opposite of fruit. In addition, the advantage of Windows itself is also in its large number of professional non-professional software resources. If Metro is the future set by Microsoft for Windows, where do you place these traditional desktop software vendors? Maybe Windows 8 will become another Vista at the end, and Metro will be another corner of Media Center's history of being swept into the evolution of the operating system. Microsoft may still be confused for a long time, and users are "retrieving" their "go" to "go".