Steven Sinofsky, Windows division president on Friday stood in favor of his team’s decision to choose “ribbon” mechanism for Windows 8 Explorer. Steven further even said that the detractors should deal with it. There was even a confirmation from Microsoft that the ribbon treatment would be given to Windows 8 Explorer in late August. This would mean that one would see an addition of an Office-like “ribbon” toolbar to the Explorer tool giving easy access to things like Copy, Paste, Delete, Rename, Cut, and Properties.
Steven blogged in a post that the decision of choosing ribbon mechanism was not a flawed one and those who consider it to be a poor decision, their team can only disagree to it. He said that there can be different opinions in this case, but the level of satisfaction for their products is higher with the use of ribbon and the usage is much broader and deeper. He added that an addition cannot please everyone and even noted, “the dislike of the ribbon is most intense in the audience of this blog.” For the feedback, their team is making a serious note of them. Steven was quick to even acknowledge that “it might be the case that no matter what we do, there will be a small set of people that are not satisfied.”
There was even an update provided on the “Metro” interface in Windows 8. Lat week, Microsoft said that those users of Windows 8 who have a prefer using the tiled “Metro” interface, can now be relieved as the obligation of loading Windows 8 code has been removed. Now a user can use tiled “Metro” interface exclusively, which would as expected turn one’s desktop into “just another app.”
This could be well in the appreciation list as if a user intends to use Windows 8 in a tablet mode or on a PC, with a touch, keyboard, or mouse interface, will not face the burden of keeping Windows 8 code in the background. Taking an extract from their feedbacks on ‘Metro’, Steven noted that there was a suggestion that the Software Giant should make use of a graphical treatment which is lighter and only a few commands are exposed as the requirement list of users has ‘minimalism’ on the list. After noting the feedback, Steven explained that Microsoft even has a minimalism in its processes and procedures, but as he quoted the definition, “Minimalism is not hiding features or making useful things hard to get to. Minimalism is about stripping things down to fundamental features.”
Steven even mentioned that Microsoft has been working on ways to organize commands along with the graphical treatment and default settings. He briefed that even the company was sharing the common goal to have a clean user experience and even to make sure that “people can get done the things they do want to get done.” He even said that moving to the desktop would not be too jarring in Windows 8.
Of late, Windows 8 blog has been used by Microsoft to pass on details relating to the OS, even though one can still see many more such updates coming up soon at BUILD conference, which is scheduled to be held this month. A bit of briefing has even been done by the company about the support Windows 8 could provide for .ISO and.VHD files along with file management. Lastly, a Windows 8 app store is even one thing which could make rounds in the near future.
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