Windows Phone 9 will reportedly drop Metro UI
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MadGizmo
One disadvantage of dropping Metro on Windows Phone 9 is that now users have to carry a keyboard and mouse with them. :P
lucidus
Never liked the Tile UI .. too crowded and "busy" with the live ones.
Illnino
Heh, I don't think they will drop the UI on phones and tablets, OS I can relate to with the option to have it if you want considering the flak that W8 got when it launched.......hey its all about options.
Exodite
This makes no sense.
Dropping it for touch-enabled devices but still ramming it down the throat of desktop users?
No, I think "seeing is believing" will have to apply here.
Loobyluggs
Making it up.
It's not hard to find a contentious issue and exploit it to draw attention to yourself.
What's he going to do next? Make up bs about mantle under-performing because he prefers nVidia ?
BLEH!
Sign of the times for windows?
nhlkoho
No it won't. Microsoft has pushed this new UI on all of their devices. I find it hard to believe that Windows Phone will be the only exception to this.
Extraordinary
Already reported as being a baseless rumour by someone with a bad track record for BS
http://www.wpcentral.com/stopping-rumor-mill-windows-phone-unique-ui
sykozis
Just a rumor at this point. Removing MetroUI was supposedly a "consideration" for WP9. Supposedly MS was working on an entirely new UI for WP9. We'll find out when it launches. I'd love to see a more "android like" UI for WP.
Extraordinary
Hasn't MS worked for too long and pushed Metro too hard for them to suddenly drop it ?
And they are on about joining all their OS's into one across all devices, so how will they do that unless they drop Metro on PCs / tablets too ?
Can't see Metro being dropped from Mobile devices any time soon
sykozis
MS is planning to merge WP and RT. Haven't heard anything about them merging all OSes... They've only talked about a unified user experience that I'm aware of.
Asgardi
Hmmm...
Yeah we all know MS is pushing a single scaling experience to all devices which is btw a damn good idea once they get it to really work. And we also know that they are currently making huge efforts to make the code base the same too.
I think this news goes a little far about what Eldar actually said. There was no talk about dumping Metro all together. It was about Metro evolving closer to what Android is. Which makes sense because what other options there really are? It cant go any more simple.
Extraordinary
Yea that's what I mean, a unified experience across all device isn't going to work if one of them doesn't have Metro UI and the rest do
CronoGraal
by default: enable metro on touchscreen devices, disable on desktop
Mineria
Do you even own a WP8?
Most of us that do, prefer the Metro UI over the cluttered UI that Android and Apple devices ship with.
nhlkoho
I personally liked the Metro UI better than Android. It's a shame that when I dropped Verizon and went to Sprint that Sprint had no good Windows Phones at the time so I went back to Android
lucidus
I don't need to own a phone to judge the UI. I have friends. I find WP to be an unusable mess.
sykozis
Agreed. I don't buy into the whole "unified experience" ideal though. A unified experience might be great for some but, I prefer to be able to customize each UI to meet my needs based on the exact device. Having every device run the same UI, isn't always the most efficient. I need a UI that can easily adapt to me....and Android is untouchable in that respect.
My Nexus 4 was far from "cluttered" when I received it. It had the clock, a search bar and 8 necessary (for me anyway) icons on the main home screen. I don't own a WP8 device, currently, but I do own 4 Android phones, an iPhone and a WP7 phone.
Windows Phone is excellent for those new to smartphones. However, for the more experienced, it's quite lacking. When I bought into WP7, it really wasn't much different from using my KinTwoM. The only real differences being performance and the ability to install "apps". The UI is still largely the same as the MetroUI that was introduced with the Kin line of "feature" phones.
Extraordinary
Yea, I disable the sync option on Windows 8.1 too, I don't want my laptop to look identical to my PC, I generally theme my machines depending on which hardware I have inside of them, doesn't look very good when you have an AMD FX 8 Core, or ASUS ROG wallpaper set on a dual core turion 5 year old laptop
ScoobyDooby
Agreed.. such an ugly UI in my opinion.. In fact, I just genuinely dislike the whole Metro UI right down to the core. Its too basic, bland and generic.. blocky and uninspired.
I'm also still upset the way they changed Hotmail to outlook and forced that crap upon its users. MS has pissed me off in the last year +
