The upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June, has been one of the most discussed topics of the tech world and has received much criticism for its new Metro user interface and its touch screen centric design for the number of changes that the consumers have got to witness from its previous versions of Windows.
Consequently, in a recent development, Microsoft has disclosed that it has made a few major changes to its desktop UI for Windows 8, which chiefly includes moving away from Aero Glass - the UI first introduced with Vista.
Revealed through a post on the Building Windows 8 blog, the company has informed that the visual changes will include "flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients."
Regardless of all of these changes with the interface, the company doesn't appear to be worried about the issue of "learnability."
Instead, Microsoft believes that with a little help it won't take long for users to adapt to the new operating system. "We will help people get off on the right foot," the company explained in the blog post, "and we have confidence that people will quickly find the new paradigms to be second-nature."
According to the Verge report, Microsoft has admitted that there have been some usability issues with certain gestures in the Consumer Preview, the company says that this is not an issue with people coming to grips with the concept, but instead a problem with the early state of the OS - internal builds are already "significantly improved," according to Microsoft, so we should see an easier-to-use Windows 8 when the Release Preview launches next month.
The post has highlighted the whole making of the software, as the team looks back at interface issues dating all the way to Windows 1 in 1985.
Check out the source link to have a look on the building of Windows 8.
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