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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-had-one-job-ONE-JOB dept.
stmuk writes:

"BGR reflects on recent comments by a Metro designer. 'Metro is a content consumption space,' Microsoft UX designer Jacob Miller explains, 'It is designed for casual users who only want to check Facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to Instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user.'"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by dilbert on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:17PM

    by dilbert (444) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:17PM (#2414)
    If this design principle were true, why did they put the metro interface into Server 2012? How many computer illiterate grandpas and little sisters are administering AD?
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by pjbgravely on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:04PM

    by pjbgravely (1681) <pjbgravelyNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:04PM (#2502) Homepage

    A server with a GUI?

    • (Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:01PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:01PM (#2852) Journal

      Yes, I think it is immensely practical to have those little graphics known as letters, and an user interface which graphically arranges those letters on the screen in a grid of lines and columns. Also very useful is this motion-sensor-less hundred-something button mouse commonly known as keyboard.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:31AM (#3225)

      Red Hat is developing a server administration GUI. Windows - not just for Microsoft anymore.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by microtodd on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:22PM

    by microtodd (1866) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:22PM (#2563) Homepage Journal

    Heck yeah! I feel stupid, like I don't even know where the shutdown button is!

  • (Score: 1) by hb253 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:22PM

    by hb253 (745) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:22PM (#2691)

    You'd be surprised.

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    The firings and offshore outsourcing will not stop until morale improves.
  • (Score: 1) by neagix on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:47PM

    by neagix (25) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:47PM (#2775)

    ..don't make me think about this. Whenever I start a remote session of Windows 2012 Server I have the clear sensation of somebody playing a prank on me by having installed some toy shell.

    But then I realize Microsoft did it.