To judge by this page, Microsoft's vision of Modern Design involves very little meaningful content on the page as you load it, sideways scrolling (which interferes with the Mac Back/Forward gesture), and tiny text in a serif font.<p>Something like the way GDS Design Principles is laid out strikes me as a modern approach. Clearly written, responsive, and designed for the web.<p>This, on the other hand, is a complete turd. Obscure, only readable on a desktop, and has walls of text. Reminds me of the full flash sites of the early 00s.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples" rel="nofollow">https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples</a>
For the youngsters among you, this is in fact a very old design discipline which was used to organise what were called <i>books</i>. Unlike books, which were bound collections of fixed size <i>pages</i> (done for compactness and strength), this is an emulation of what used to be called a <i>scroll</i>, a much older form of organising text which was abandoned as impractical as soon as we figured out book binding.<p>So Microsoft are emulating an archaic and impractical form of information presentation and calling it <i>modern</i>, how typically Microsoftian. Unless of course, this is a rare example of Americans using the word 'irony' correctly, in which case, bravo!
Shiny new look (which I like, BTW) layered on top of the cruft that is Win32.<p>As great a job that Microsoft has done with maintaining compatibility with legacy apps, at some point you have to introduce something new. I'd like to see a new systems API on top of the kernel that is object-oriented, and perhaps has single-level store and is processor architecture agnostic so I only have to ship one image for both Intel & ARM.