Windows 9 Preview screenshots Shows Start Menu and notification screen

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/11/2014 04:58 PM | source: | 52 comment(s)

Interesting, the guys over at ComputerBase have shown some initial screen-shots of Windows 9 Technical Preview build 9834. Computerbase shows 20 screenshots of the pending Technical Preview, they reveal the new Start Menu, a notification center, windowed Metro apps, what seems to be virtual desktops. And then some more.

Below an overview of some of the photo's, courtesy to computerbase. More photo's here.

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PhazeDelta1
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#4910715 Posted on: 09/11/2014 05:03 PM

That start menu looks horrible. I hope Microsoft gives users the option to disable it and use the start screen.

Reddoguk
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#4910736 Posted on: 09/11/2014 05:45 PM

Yuck that looks so fugly.

CronoGraal
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#4910743 Posted on: 09/11/2014 05:58 PM

They're trying way too hard to be creative. Go with what isn't broke and improve it, jeez.

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#4910746 Posted on: 09/11/2014 06:02 PM

still looks too fisher price for my liking. microsoft should have never dropped aero glass.

Denial
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#4910754 Posted on: 09/11/2014 06:13 PM

still looks too fisher price for my liking. microsoft should have never dropped aero glass.

I find this amusing only because most modern design including iOS7/8 and Android's Material borrow a ton of ideas from Modern/Metro design by Microsoft. Pretty much the entire industry is moving towards the flat look.

They basically set the trend for anti-skeuomorphism and I'm glad they did. I personally find Aero to be hideous, looks like something from the 70's. I prefer the flat design principles. Material is by far the best looking so far but then Matias Duarte is pretty damn smart.

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