What were they thinking?

what was their inspiration? fisher price?

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“””metro”””

My university uses this design for our student hub. It's horrendous.

I think it just __might__ make sense.
Normies are into smartphones and *book and this look is just right for them and for le tablets or hybrids.
UWP on metro would have saved lumia but oh well..

Idiocracy.

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That's actually decent compared to Win10, which applies the accent colour to every fucking tile.

Jow Forumsim14andthisisdeep

You a Britbong? If so I think I know which university you're talking about.

It was easy to prototype in powerpoint

Microsoft thought every device was gonna have a touch screen, even desktops. But Microsoft is retarded so there's that

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>computers should be as unfriendly as possible! just like myself!
what a neckbeard

It could actually be an interesting design if:

1. The titles of each of the buttons is removed, and each button only has a logo.

2. The size of the buttons are scaled to the size of the logo, no need for so much wasted space in each button, it is not needed, but more importantly objectively unaesthetic.

I don't get the name either

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what do you mean, easy to get rid of.
just there for normies.
that looks like an uncustomized install
customize it

They were thinking
>hey you know that mobile OS we made that no one used? let's make a desktop version

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Xbox 360. They wanted to make a Windows OS that would be familiar to everyone. They believed that if they were familiar with Windows 8, that they would be more inclined to purchase an Xbox and/or a Windows Phone.

What happened is they made a jack of all trades, but an absolute abomination when it came to specializing.

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Kek

ITT: people still screaming the same thing six years later.

>because my entire employment experience was
>truncated for being a retard
>it was quickly found out that I was some neckbeard freetard who lied on my resume to get in the door
>i was removed by security and thrown back on the street i came from
>moms making me chicken tendies as we speak because i haven't had any since lunchtime

Even the guys at Ideocracy recognize transgenderism as a disease.

They were trying to reach common ground with windows phones. They're still trying, many parts of W10 start menu look exactly like a windows phone. I'd know, I'm an unlucky owner of one.