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What is Twitter?Microsoft has unveiled a few interesting details about the future File Explorer in Windows 8. The most outstanding new feature is, undoubtedly, the addition of the ribbon interface.
Explorer in Windows 3.1
Explorer in Windows 8
The decision to apply a ribbon to the Windows default file manager hasn’t been taken lightly. As explained on its blog, Microsoft has done a lot of research about the most commonly used commands in Explorer, and the way users access them. After studying the results of this analysis, ribbon was clearly the best choice for the new interface in Explorer, for several reasons: it lets you display the most important commands in prominent locations while also exposing loads of other minor tools, organizes commands conveniently in handy groups and it follows the design line opened by Office and Microsoft Paint, making it easier for people to get used to the new interface.
Microsoft admits certain users might accept the inclusion of a ribbon in Windows Explorer with skepticism, but claims that there are also many benefits to this type of interface:
- Room to include hidden features that they already use but which require third party add-ons to use in the Explorer UI today.
- Keyboard shortcuts for every command in the ribbon, something many people have been asking for.
- UI customization with the quick access toolbar, taking us back to a customization level that is basically equivalent to Windows XP.
Among other features, the ribbon interface organizes commands in three different tabs: the Home tab, the Share tab and the View tab. The Home tab includes all the main file management tools, such as copy, cut, paste, rename, delete and properties. This is the core tab, where you’ll probably spend most of your time.
The Share tab focuses on sharing files in different ways, such as zipping and emailing them, or burning them to optical media.
Finally, the View tab features options for view customization. You can enable or disable the Navigation, Preview and Details panes, as well as quickly sort files by column and show hidden items, among other possibilities.
If you want to see the new Explorer running live on a computer, check out the video where Alex Simons, director of Program Management for Windows, walks you through all these features in Windows Explorer. It’s available as an MP4 file both in high and low quality.
Microsoft has complicated Things more, instead of just simple interace like UBuntu 11.04 or Mac, they are complicating things. They just don't know how to innovate or understand their mistake, they have huge potential to to it,
well, it is the worst idea... This is the contrary to evolution...
Microsoft has complicated Things more, instead of just simple interace like UBuntu 11.04 or Mac, they are complicating things. They just don't know how to innovate or understand their mistake, they have huge potential to to it,
i hate this look, worst than ever.. its time to fire the gui designers
I think it is great what Microsoft is doing... It is more "complicated" and for that I thank them. The more simplistic some thing is, the less you can do with it. Why would you use notepad; when you can use and understand Microsoft word? I guess people might have to actually learn how to use something new. That will never fly!!!
Looks much better to me. Has the same look as the Office products.
I love it! The tabs at the top makes things easier that ever! Good job Microsoft!
M$ hasn't ever been able to design any GUI well. How many years has it been, and you still only get a single listing; split-window sort-of, but you cannot see both the source and the destination for copy and paste. NOW they take 30% THIRTY PERCENT of the window for commands! The ribbon is hideous and the worst 'tweak' yet. It just kills me that everytime they "improve" I have to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to fix what they've either screwed up or left out. I am not surprised and totally underwhelmed - they still don't get it.
p.s. Answer to why you use notepad - it is an ASCII editor, HELLO - if you use Word, you copy formatting -and it some cases, such as copying malicious URLs or HTML code, you will take that hidden code into the copy and paste and spread it around even more. We use ASCII editors for many purposes, one being it's the safest way to copy anything. Word is the worst editor ever, especially when they do something really stupid like embed it as an editor in Outlook, where the formatting issues are legion. So Kil Joy, be very careful what you copy in Word; it is easy to hide code in formatted text.
Do we get a free upgrade from Windows 7,wonder when they will stop updating Vista AND windows 7 to make us all buy Windows 8. I'm due a new PC think i'll get a Mac !
more complicated ? no it's not. you can hide the ribbon if u don't need it.
THIS is supposed to get me salivating to spend $$$ on yet another "new and improved" M$ operating system?? Maybe its time to listen to Rush and get a mac
Good Job Microsoft !!! Consistency and the same look and feel in every product from the portfolio. Cool !!!
Congratulations Microsoft. i love it. how can i become a part of your product...Would like to be your representative...to convince the negatives...!!!
Me parece excelente pues permitirá ejercer un mejor control del sistema...
you are the bestest ...............
looks very familiar!
Stop being made fools of by Microsoft..........Get an Apple...No viruses, upgrades cost $29.00, and the computers are fsat and interface with M$. Mine is 5 years old, and NOT obsolete... Fantastic................
No-one is being made a fool of by Microsoft! The main reason there aren't many viruses targeting Apple machines is that they're not used widely enough - why write something that will only affect a (relative) handful of machines? And they may interface with Microsoft machines but it's not easy, it's full of bugs and I have yet to have a situation by where someone has done something on a Mac, sent it to the rest of the team (who are using Windows machines) and there have been no problems whatsoever - there is always something that requires a 30 minute workaround in order to open. And those rare times that I've been forced to use a Mac haven't shown it to be particularly easy to interface on that end either. Macs are horrendously overpriced for what they are. So not worth the thousands of pounds one would have to spend on buying one!
M$ hasn't ever been able to design any GUI well. How many years has it been, and you still only get a single listing; split-window sort-of, but you cannot see both the source and the destination for copy and paste. NOW they take 30% THIRTY PERCENT of the window for commands! The ribbon is hideous and the worst 'tweak' yet. It just kills me that everytime they "improve" I have to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to fix what they've either screwed up or left out. I am not surprised and totally underwhelmed - they still don't get it.
I still can't understand why People will pay heaps of $'s to buy an operating system when you can get a free Linux OS like "PCLinuxOS" yeah it's free to download and free to use , it's also open source! is constantly kept up to date ( rolling distro ) and lets face it that’s where Microsoft gets all their ideas from, they copy what Linux has already done and has working excellently, only problem is they ( Microsoft ) still even then can't get it right.
I understand why the ribbon won't impress some people. At first I thought it was a crazy idea by Microsoft but really now I don't mind it since they use the ribbon in most of their programs and even if it gets a little annoying I can still minimize it (if they allow it to minimize).
This is the reason I use the old Word and PowerPoint... I hate this design. It's inconvenient and unnecessary.
i use Windows Vista Buisness :D I LOVW IT!!
Familiar story for a Mac OS user. It seems every time MS introduces a new OS they make it more complicated to use but not better. This is easily demonstrated. Recently I had need to teach a 16 y.o girl to use my Mac laptop. In 15 min she was happily moving files around and using Open Office (the free open source equivalent to MS Office). She said she was impressed at how intuitive the Mac OS was. Try that exercise in reverse.
Thanks for the Tip, I didn’t tested Windows 8 yet. need to check it.