Follow-up: Starting, Launching and Switching ...
Follow-up: Starting, Launching and Switching ... Messing around with the Windows UI - not a feature problem, but a provisioning problem! Now start listening and please fix it this time!
(Is it still program managers or people in power designing the UI for Windows? It certainly does not look like domain specialist or software engineering designing the solution here - it's just too weak for that to look like a professional solution?
Please let educated people do their work ...)
Problem:
- Task Bar = (is and still is originally) Start. So keep promoting task bar and kill the new Start. Task Bar is Start.
- Virtual Desktop lacks virtual Start (= virtual Task Bar) (Virtual Desktop only have virtual launch from the virtual documents (the virtual desktop) ... you need to add virtual start beyond virtual launch.
- Starting universal Windows apps including touch goes to the virtual task bar (add virtualization above, i.e. context changes - for touch meaning i.e. increasing the task bar (Start) areas height)
Cause:
Steven Sinofsky:
@Computermensch writes “The problem with this "analysis" (show me the data) is that you're only managing current activities surrounding the taskbar. So with respect "to evolving the taskbar" you're only developing it within its
current operational framework while developing or evolution of it really should refer to developing the taskbars concept.”
0) A history reminder - where is Windows 10 now starting program: Back where Windows 7 left off.
Well, guess I do not have to remind about what happened to Windows 8. Now we're back at it. Welcome back to testing ...
I did some of them, testing Windows client for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and now Windows 10.
Let's go back in time to 2008 - Engineneering Windows 7:
Follow-up: Starting, Launching, and Switching
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/09/29/follow-up-starting-launching-and-switching.aspx
Steven Sinofsky:
@Computermensch writes “The problem with this "analysis" (show me the data) is that you're only managing current activities surrounding the taskbar. So with respect "to evolving the taskbar" you're only developing it within its
current operational framework while developing or evolution of it really should refer to developing the taskbars concept.”
Then let's go forward in time - to Windows 8 coming up with a new start and launch context namely the Start Screen - and now kind of back in time again to Windows 7 and the desktop using Windows 10. So now we're also back to the Task Bar!!!! Hence we're
back to developing and evolving the way of Starting programs.
Microsoft just have a serious problem working the provisioning in it system, i.e. what concepts you supply (provision) to the user. For instance just compare an open instance of Windows Explorer with MacOS Finder. It's the same features - but the provisioning
is just much better in Finder. The concepts are just an important mess in Windows - and needs serious clean up.
No new features! Evolvle the pinning (task bar and make it work with the virtual desktop - including touch (just add some height man ...).
And fix the freaking provisioning of concepts in the All Apps list. For instance take a look at the naming in Linux for some standard folders - instead of the bloating 3rd party names.
1) Provisioning: Now back to Windows 10 and starting programs
It's the task bar that needs development (Windows 8 kind-of "Start Menu" in Windows 7) Take a look at my comment above again for engineering Windows 7 about the taskbar on evolution - now in context with Virtual Desktops:
- May add some height to the task bar - and you can have kind-of tilesized stuff there.
- Have the taskbar configuration of pins switch (be variable) with the virtual desktop. May add an ekstra feature to pin program across all virtual desktops.
- Do not have 2 different places for pinning programs (really bad provisioning ...). Lets see some nice categories instead when pressing the start button. It really confusing pressing the start menu button - and
then you see a place like the task bar to pin programs. Typical Microsoft end up scenario, the more, the merrier ...
Please cut it down to having a pinning feature working variably in context (the task bar) with virtual desktops.
2) Finally the All Apps list pressing the start menu button: using navigation (categories, tags or filters!!!!!) to look up and finding programs not in use on a daily or weekly basis - now in context with the virtual desktop
The All Apps list that needs a nice feature to support categorization, really better provisioning in the UI of user or standard concepts (now come on, man - fix the mess. Just take a look at the complexity in that list ...). You could add a feature
to filter the All Apps list in context with the concepts for the virtual desktop.
At least provide the application infrastructure for categorization in the Start Menu. So you could process it as a third party. See what happens. Add app store later then. Whatever. Make categorization happen. No more bloat navigating for programs.
Add a template feature to the categorization. Provide 2-3 templates with Windows and let people tag there programs. Let them extend the templates ... the concepts when doing their own user concepts.
With a template feature a user just have to fill in the blanks i.e. tag his/her programs - and the menus will parse equally. Hey, the template feature could even parse into virtual desktops. I.e. using a dev variant of a template.
It's going to be 2015. And compositional software design have been around for some time. Including factories for configuring software variability. Some come on now. Let's work.
4) Conclusion
360 degrees now on virtual desktops, task bar, all apps and workflow please! Make it happen.
The problem with Windows 8 was not bad features - but bad provisioning including empty programs like the new wau media players ... underdeveloped features (no really good quantity of content demonstrating value = bad provisioning) ... completely lack of
demonstrating the value of the new UI. Like if Sharepoint or any other CMS was demonstrated completely blank with no sites and empty features, no templates. Just nothing.
Please do not miss the oppertunity to demonstrate the value of an evolved UI this time.
Please complete the provisioning. Your greatest problem is releasing undone things - may be the intension is there (recall DB schemas). However the "DB extension" is empty on release? Which consumers just buy the DB schema :o). Add some "movies"
(content) please ... add frameworks for content and provisioning ... use templates. If you do not understand this ... go away program manager ;o) Let a good software engineering read it.
Now let's fully develop the virtual features in the desktop in Windows 10. And have them provisioned - so people can see how to use them. That unfortunately never happened during engineering in Windows 8.
3 different ways and displays for pinning a program for Start!
Please consider merging Start (on the Start), Start Screen and the task bar - with pins extending the Task Bar and using the Metro UI icons overall including on the desktop. It would be a nice move on the look and feel - while the task bar would be
the same. Add virtualization for pins as well on the task bar. Make shortscuts and docs on the virtual desktop actual as well - binding dynamically to a virtual desktop - instead of formal and static.
Just observed the Start Screen can be turned back on using properties on the Task Bar.
Many ambigious concepts now for Starting programs instead of just using a Consolidated Start concept for Start Screen, Start on the Start Menu and Task bar.
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