Microsoft defends Windows 8 Metro UI
In a recent update to the Building Windows 8 blog, group program manager at Microsoft, Alice Steinglass, explained the need for a new approach to the Windows start screen.
Steinglass argued that more people are using the Taskbar to launch applications, and that the traditional Start menu in the legacy Windows operating system is ill suited to modern consumer needs.
“The Start screen is not just a replacement for the Start menu–it is designed to be a great launcher and switcher of apps, a place that is alive with notifications, customizable, powerful, and efficient. It brings together a set of solutions that today are disparate and poorly integrated,” Steinglass said on the blog.
The new Metro UI start screen was designed to allow users to access their applications as well as news, updates through social media, and other relevant items according to Steinglass.
Read the full story over at: Cnet.
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