In 2011, Microsoft Office Lab released this video. Since 2009, Microsoft annually released the videos explaining what they’re expecting to be true after ten years. Therefore, this video, released 2011, shows us what Microsoft is dreaming for 2021.
As shown in video, Microsoft’s future plan is to build a unified solution for both personal computers and mobile devices. Computer technology had become one of the essential parts of our life. Today, most of us communicate through computers. Internet already became bigger than our real world. And moreover, nowadays smartphones and tablets allow us to bring and use computers whenever, wherever we are.
As shown in video, Microsoft’s future plan is to build a unified solution for both personal computers and mobile devices. Computer technology had become one of the essential parts of our life. Today, most of us communicate through computers. Internet already became bigger than our real world. And moreover, nowadays smartphones and tablets allow us to bring and use computers whenever, wherever we are.
However,
despite of the rise of smartphone and tablet, personal computers are still
dominating most of our electronic gadgets. And there are some unapproachable
benefits of personal computer’s mouse and keyboard input that can never be made
with touchscreen.
If
you are interested in computer and technology, you might be heard about the
release of Windows 8, the next version of Windows 7. On 26 October 2012,
Microsoft officially released Windows 8. And it seems to be a step forward to
Microsoft’s future vision. But in fact, it only decreased user convenience.
Windows
was first introduced in 1985. And with its graphical user interface (GUI) based
on mouse input, Microsoft successfully dominated operating system market. Just
as what you see when you turn your computer on, the main difference of Windows was
that Windows had ‘Windows’.
With
the ‘Windows’, Windows was able to offer people much efficient multi-tasking
environment, by which people could switch programs with unimaginable speed
they’ve ever experience before. And throughout the new versions of Windows such
as Windows XP and Windows 7, Windows succeeded to maintain its popularity.
Though
you can keep using the old UI by exiting the new UI, there is no ‘start’
button. Eliminating this ‘start’ button had extremely decreased user convenience.
Additional software is required to keep using ‘start’ button as in Windows 7
and even they are not stable yet.
I have no doubt that Windows 8 is a perfect operating system for phones and tablets. It seems very cool to have Windows programs such as Microsoft Office running on tablets. But in my opinion, Microsoft missed a big point. They shouldn't have done replacing whole interface.
What if Windows 8 was all configurable? If Windows 8 had an option to choose UI to be applied, it would be much better. In other operating systems, such as Mac OS and Linux, they didn’t change their traditional UI but they offered touch-friendly launchers instead of it.
I have no doubt that Windows 8 is a perfect operating system for phones and tablets. It seems very cool to have Windows programs such as Microsoft Office running on tablets. But in my opinion, Microsoft missed a big point. They shouldn't have done replacing whole interface.
What if Windows 8 was all configurable? If Windows 8 had an option to choose UI to be applied, it would be much better. In other operating systems, such as Mac OS and Linux, they didn’t change their traditional UI but they offered touch-friendly launchers instead of it.
According
to ZDNet, Microsoft is preparing for the next version of Windows 8 and is
codenamed ‘Blue’, in which major updates will be provided annually as in Mac OS
X. I hope Microsoft fixes these problems in the next version of Windows 8.
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