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On the desktop, it's photographic and natural. On the Metro side, the imagery is abstract, stylized, and fundamentally unreal. These wallpapers seem chosen almost deliberately to contrast with the Start screen images. The default wallpaper is a picture of a flower, and there are two further wallpaper sets available some landscape photography called "Earth," and some more flowers in a set called "Flowers." Just as the desktop's color scheme is independent of the Metro world's color scheme, so too are the desktop wallpapers independent of the Start screen background.
It has no place in the Windows 8 installer.įurther separating the desktop world from the Metro world are the new desktop wallpapers included with Windows 8.
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So while the new theme means that the desktop is, aesthetically, marginally more consistent with the Metro parts, it's now a little less internally consistent.Įnlarge / That glass effect is a Windows 7 thing. There are still traces of fancier graphical effects such as the "glow" when the mouse is over a taskbar button. Microsoft also seems not to have followed through with its flatter, simpler aesthetic. The aesthetic differences, however, are harder to make sense of. Differences in font selection and sizing are understandable changing those things drastically would simply break desktop applications. Similarly, while those dropdown boxes and so on are flatter than they are in Windows 7, they still have a slight gradient. My desktop world isn't, because its colors are based on the wallpaper. My Metro world is very purple, because I like the purple background option. The two worlds still look very different, and I'm not sure all the differences are justifiable.įor example, while the automatic colorization based on the wallpaper is cute, colorization based on the Metro-side theme choice would seem more sensible. While it's a step in the right direction (and not unattractive, in my view), I had hoped Microsoft would go further still. The new theme is Microsoft's attempt to bridge the gap. Gone are the recessed checkboxes and bulging dropdown lists of Windows 7.ĭuring Windows 8's development, one of the things we expressed concerns about was the jarring switch between the Metro look-and-feel and the desktop look and feel. There's a bunch of tone-on-tone settings, all fairly brightly colored, and a smaller number of options using a bright foreground color against a gray background. My instinctive reaction is that it's inadequate.ĭuring setup, the same color combinations for the Metro environment are available as were found in the Release Preview.
Whether this is really enough-and memorable enough-for a wide range of users, well, we'll just have to wait and see. It teaches the fundamental concepts (swipe from the sides if you're a touch user, point to the corners if you're a mouse user) but leaves users on their own when it comes to the finer nuances of the interface. The tutorial is also extremely high level. The tutorial is amazingly brief, and there's no obvious way of rewatching it (aside from creating a new user account the first time that account logs on, it will be shown the tutorial), nor any reminders within the operating system itself of the things the tutorial teaches.
The Windows 8 tutorial, captured by Rafael Rivera of Within Windows. We've known since March that Windows 8 would have a tutorial when you first log on, but it hasn't been present in any of the beta builds. The visible changes are essentially all graphical, and they start fairly early on. Indeed, all the major design and user interface points of Windows 8 have been frozen since the release of the Consumer Preview. The Release Preview was a good representation of what Windows 8 is like to use. The various betas have been used and reviewed extensively what's new in RTM?
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