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    The re-imagined Windows 8 Metro concept that you wish was real

    By Francis Bea | Digital Trends – Sun, Feb 26, 2012

    We’ll see the official Windows 8 Consumer Preview later this week. But so far, the evolution of the Windows interface has received mixed sentiments from those within the technology community. While Windows 8’s interface has for the most part been set in stone, the naysayers in the crowd can revel in a refreshing Windows 8 desktop concept designed by Sputnik8 (also known as “Phyek” elsewhere) on The Verge’s forum, “Microsoft Tribe.”

    The clean, re-imagined Windows 8 concept is a refreshing break from Microsoft’s Metro user interface. It’s a kickback to earlier versions of Windows, and has us wishing that Microsoft could buy out Phyek’s design to offer it as an alternative. Don’t get us wrong, Windows Metro aligns with Microsoft’s 2010 mobile operating system, Windows Phone “Mango”, and in itself is an innovative product. Microsoft developed a solution for integrating social media, and up-to-date information, alongside the typical icons for files that all operating systems to this day have used.

    One thing is sure: Metro is absolutely far from a mimicry of Apple’s OS X. As ZDnet humorously points out, it brings back memories of 2006, when Apple’s Bertrand Serlet compared the uncanny similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Microsoft’s fervent desire to differentiate itself from Apple has been evident, and to that extent, the designers over at Microsoft have accomplished their goal with Metro.

    Forgoing the clustered squares that is unique to Metro, Sputnik8 has re-envisioned the next interface of Windows by using a design aesthetic that values the intuitiveness and angular simplicity of Metro, while maintaining a semblance of the interface that users of Windows 7 (and its predecessors) have come to know. Note that Phyek’s concept, “Didn’t aim for the design to be completely consistent with what MS calls ‘metro’ (for instance, I specifically didn’t want loops around icons, among other things),” Phyek stated in the forum.

    The screen shots of the conceptual interfaces include redesigns of Internet Explorer, Bing, Media Center, and even Skype. Admittedly we can’t help but admire and favor Sputnik8’s interface concepts over the originals.

    What we could find from around the Web is that Phyek has been re-skinning to create beautiful, functional interfaces for the open source media player, Xbmc. You can can find phyek’s professional portfolio on phyletik.com.

    See the screenshots of Phyek’s Windows 8 concept design below:

    Explorer

     

    Internet Explorer

     

    Bing

     

    Media Center (Window Mode)

     Skype

     

     

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    11 comments

    • shawn
      shawn  •  2 mths ago
      pics or it never happened
    • Anonymous33
      Anonymous33  •  3 mths ago
      Why are the links to the screen shots Not There?
    • David
      David  •  Lincoln, Nebraska  •  2 mths ago
      my next computer is going to be a mac.
    • William S
      William S  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  2 mths ago
      I'll keep Win7 till they release the update to fix all the flaws.
      • CommonSense
        CommonSense 2 mths ago
        famous last words:
        I'll keep vista till 7 is fixed
        I'll keep XP till vista is fixed
        I'll keep windows ME till XP is fixed
        I'll keep windows 3.1 to ME is ready
        Who needs windows? I'll stick to DOS and word perfect
    • Spare rib
      Spare rib  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Click on the "forum" link for pictures.
    • Spare rib
      Spare rib  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Check it out Microsoft, you could use this guy. Hire him immediately and put him on the desktop redesign, it would put you much farther ahead of what I've seen in the Windows 8 Developer Preview that I'm running.
    • Brian
      Brian  •  3 mths ago
      What pictures?
    • R.T. Arcand
      R.T. Arcand  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  3 mths ago
      Time for a 128 bit bus and OS.
      • sherryl
        sherryl 3 mths ago
        the first 64x chip appeared in 2001 it was an AMD but it took 8 years for Micorsoft to finally have a stable version of Windows that could run it
    • G
      G  •  3 mths ago
      Microsoft: grow yourself a pair, and and have a little confidence in your own work.

      How many "consumer previews" has Apple ever held? They just released it, and for the most part it just worked. They didn't have to ask the world for a consensus.
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        boy are u stupid, they did a lot of previews in the passed.... just worked my #$%$..
    • Restore The Sanity
      Restore The Sanity  •  2 mths ago
      I really don't like the win8 metro look. It's the same reason I didn't go out and buy a win8 phone.
      • Matt
        Matt 2 mths ago
        WP8 isn't even out yet. WP7 is the current.
    • Kara Saentibaybay
      Kara Saentibaybay  •  3 mths ago
      If it's slooow, it's not worth it.
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