Jay Machalani's Windows 8.2 concept - this is something you don't want to miss

Whether you dear an operating arrangement or you hate it, at that place is always room for improvement and the grasp of perfection is always one step further ahead than you are. In a video recently posted to YouTube by Interface and Branding Architect, Jay Machalani, he proposed how he would "fix Windows 8".

Jay stated that "Windows 8 is [his] favorite OS to date, but that [it] is filled with massive flaws". The one word he uses to describe Microsoft's latest operating system is "confusion".

"Microsoft has a lot of dandy ideas and they smashed them together to create Windows 8. They have some pretty amazing blocks, it's just a matter of arranging them the correct style."

Machalani set five rules for his "W8.ii paradigm pattern". First, he believes that Microsoft needs to create a unified store and ecosystem for the platform based within the Windows Store. Second, Jay believes that information technology is "Microsoft'southward chore to make certain that [Metro and Live Tiles] are relevant and useful". 3rd, the operating system has to work on both bear on screen devices and with a mouse and keyboard flawlessly. Fourth, Microsoft has to accept the idea that "users with mouse and keyboards do not desire a bear upon-optimized experience". And finally, that those who practise cull to use a tablet don't desire to see the desktop or "get through a Desktop interface."

His solution is presented in the video above. His inquiry and personal blueprint rules have come up downwardly to the solution of simply separating the Desktop and Metro "equally completely different environments you tin can switch between."

The included concept video shows a full desktop interface including a modern UI style start carte. Belongings downwardly the Windows button for a few seconds and so transfers you to a familiar Windows 8 style Start Screen. Working with this idea, a user can switch between the Desktop and Modern UI when needed – and all applications can work seamlessly throughout both.

For more details and to encounter the complete set of screenshots and videos, you tin visit Jay's web log past clicking hither.

What do you think of Jay Machalani's blueprint? Personally – this is the Windows 8.2 I want to use.

Source: Machalani; Lead epitome courtesy of Jay Machalani

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