Biggest part of announcement was the HTML+JS part. Let that sink in- HTML+JS is now the premier way to write Windows apps. Who would have thought this day would come?
Ok, just to be sure I understand that correctly - Microsoft has invested quite a lot of money into developing Silverlight and WPF and then promoting those technologies among developers as the best thing since sliced bread (not to mention the only way to write applications for WP7) and now they are doing that? How is that for the coherent vision and a clear message to people who'd like to write for their platform?
But how do you make things?<p>This is a fantastic way to present information. it's beautiful. I would love this on a tv, or a bunch of displays in my house. especially with an epaper non light generating kind of display.<p>But... but... how do you make stuff? how do you design a house? how do you write code? It seems so very very consumer.
There is a video on youtube for user interface of windows 8
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I</a>
Live rollout:<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110601/up-next-at-d9-microsoft-windows-president-steven-sinofsky-live-at-d9/" rel="nofollow">http://allthingsd.com/20110601/up-next-at-d9-microsoft-windo...</a>
Side question: we're going to see the debut of OS X Lion soon this summer, as well. How often does this happen, when we have a year when both MS and Apple reveal their upcoming operating system?
This looks like a tablet OS rather than a desktop OS.<p>The elephant in the room is Office. How is Office going to make the transition to a Windows 8, touch-based UI and still be usable to the dozens of millions of current users?<p>The age-old desktop vs. touchscreen conundrum arises. Apple has two versions of it's OS: OSX for desktops, which is (currently) not a touch-based UI, and iOS for it's small and large tablet devices which is touch-based.
If they don't have a ship date yet, why are they showing this off? It seems like they're just asking for any of their good ideas to be stolen before they launch. Apple's approach seems to be to develop in secret and show something off just before it hits the shelves.<p>Is Microsoft just seeing to see how people react to this, leaving room to backpedal if necessary?
When Steve Jobs said that touch interfaces on the desktop/laptop sucked, I think that opinion was based on some thorough testing.<p>Looks like Microsoft are gonna go ahead and do it anyway.
Looks like OS X and Linux have nothing to worry about here. It's the Microsoft Bob idea wheeled out again with a trendy minimalist feel instead of a dog.