Well...
More like all apps are funnelled through a central store... if an app on windows 10 is available and works for both pc and xbox (as a single unified app as selected by the developer) then you'd be able to buy for both. But they will still likely segregate available apps according to which store you're currently on.
Worst case scenario. Xbox One becoming a Windows box. Did anyone ask for this?
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The Avatars are making a comeback.
So... still, how do you go from 8 - 8.1 - 10?
*brofist*#BringBackBlades
I no expert on game development, but wouldn't this make it easier to port Xbox games to pc and vice versa?
You can have touch on half with a diagonal line going across and the other desktop? Is there a shortcut?
Worst case scenario. Xbox One becoming a Windows box. Did anyone ask for this?
I wouldn't call that a significant redesign.
Casuals just want their Start Menu back so they can feel comfortable and safe again. Those of us on Win8(.1update1) already know that Win8 desktop has great improvements already. Such as the new file copy manager. I loath going back to Win7 or previous and not having this feature.
I thought it effectively already is - more like windows RT in that the front end is only a different kind of metro (no full desktop). That is one reason MS can iterate the OS so quickly.
Opening up the App Store between windows, windows phone and xbox is something they already mentioned at BUILD.
Yes, of course you can.
Inside a full screen modern app use either your finger (touchscreen) or a mouse click at the top of the screen. Drag downwards to about the middle of the screen and you will see the modern app move. You can then place it in one half of the screen.
Once it's there, you can move the verticle seperater line (did you mean to type diagonal?) to change how much of the screen the modern apps takes up. Now you move the desktop back into the other half, either by swiping-in from the left (touchscreen), or alt-tab on a keyboard.
Well, Phil Spencer did recently say that Rare was an important part of the XB1's future.
Well, Phil Spencer did recently say that Rare was an important part of the XB1's future.
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The Avatars are making a comeback.
But what if it comes with screenshot support?
Can't escape the back of my foot
AW FUCK I didn't notice that. I try to never boot my 360 to OS to avoid that monster
Oh please god no.
Well, Phil Spencer did recently say that Rare was an important part of the XB1's future.
There's a difference between being powered by the Windows kernel and APIs and the Xbox running Office. The latter does not sound like a great idea.
Appreciate the note and the sincerity
I was commenting on how the first page is an obvious mock up because on the touchscreen laptop you have the screen split diagonally with the start set up in the bottom left and the touch tiles in the upper right.
Worst case scenario. Xbox One becoming a Windows box. Did anyone ask for this?
I thought you can use a usb keyboard with the xbox one already.Pretty much a certainty that the Xbox One will also run Windows 10 from what they describe -
"Windows 10 will run across an incredibly broad set of devices from the Internet of Things, to servers in enterprise datacenters worldwide. Some of these devices have 4 inch screens some have 80 inch screens and some dont have screens at all. Some of these devices you hold in your hand, others are ten feet away. Some of these devices you primarily use touch/pen, others mouse/keyboard, others controller/gesture and some devices can switch between input types."
You're all running PCs now (it will look practically the same and just have "universal apps")
Edit - maybe you can finally attach a mouse and keyboard to xbox one, that would be pretty damn useful
I told you guys
Pretty sure that's actually the UI for Microsofts next console, the Xbox Three.
You mean Xbox 4?
Well there we go. I don't think Rare's coffin can take many more nails.
It's not even to feel safe. How do you find something if it doesn't add a shortcut to the desktop or metro, and you can't remember what it is called? There isn't anywhere that collects things together like the start menu did. It was a useful mechanism and removing it was pointless. Arguably done to try and foist the metro front end on us which backfired massively
#BringBackBlades
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Avatars are making a comeback.
Xbox mode for Windows PCs.
The new Microsoft Entertainment and PC gaming strategy. So long Xbox One....in a couple of years. Windows PCs take it from here, thanks for playing Xbox consoles.
I thought you can use a usb keyboard with the xbox one already.
This was all 'threshold' was all about? A unified design and look for their software? That's it?
Appreciate the note and the sincerity
I was commenting on how the first page is an obvious mock up because on the touchscreen laptop you have the screen split diagonally with the start set up in the bottom left and the touch tiles in the upper right. I don't think MS has ever moved away from a "windowed" setup. They mocked up that screen to show that the touchscreen laptop can use both types of Windows 10, but it would never be an actual feature. Thus, the XO redesign is also a mockup created by an artist for the presentation.
Speedy will be happy.
I hope it is just an early mock up.
Windows 8 vanilla automatically pinned newly installed desktop software and modern apps to the Start Screen. People whined, so in 8.1 it no longer did this, and you had to manually pin things. So people made it harder for themselves... instead of quickly un-pinnning newly installed items, now they had to go digging and pin every item they wanted to pin.
Where do they go digging? The ''All Apps'' screen. Accessed by flicking the Start Screen upwards to reveal the All Apps screen on a touchscreen, or with a mouse clicking-on the down arrow which is inside of a circle on the bottom left corner of the start screen underneath the bottom row of tiles. The ''All Apps'' Screen contains both desktop programs and modern apps, and can be arragned in a variety of ways, such as Most Used first, Most Recently Used first, Desktop Programs first, Modern Apps first etc.
Honestly... Start Menu is archaic. If MS had have simply included better tutorials for touchscreen gestures, or how to find things with mouse and keyboard in the initial Windows 8 startup tutorial -- and perhaps made boot to desktop and Start Menu into optional toggles in the first place, then Windows 8 would have been a rousing success. But unfortunately the vocal few who moan the loudest beat-out genuine attempts at modernization and adaptation from Microsoft, who're now competing in a world where laptops and PCs are losing-out to smartphones and tablets.
New title suggestion: Xbox One OS could maybe, theoretically get a redesign of some kind in light of tiny Windows 10 slide mock-up.
Wait, someone liked avatars?
Sweet Jesus.
WAIT WHAT.
That's awful if they are, I was okay with my avatar going away for the Xbox One, can't expect my purchases to transfer from Xbox 360 -> Xbox One, but if my Avatar and the avatar purchases are being taken away from me on my Xbox 360, I'm angry. I'd want a refund on all my avatar purchases, I didn't spend $109 for nothing. :/
Nothing about a redesign is confirmed. The final Win10 UI probably isn't even completely finished. It's not suppose to come out until well into 2015. The image in the OP is a mockup.
Wait, someone liked avatars?
Sweet Jesus.