It sounds ridiculous. Win9 will be the end of the desktop

Computer store news: Although there are still many users who do not like the Windows 8 Metro interface, but Microsoft will obviously stick this new UI. With the leak of Windows Blue Build 9364, everyone is also launching a hot discussion about the desktop mode while previewing the new features of Windows Blue. Foreign media ZDNet editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (notably, he has never liked the Metro interface) so he collected a lot of comments and published articles for analysis, TheWind brought us the compiled content:

The languid Windows 8 (picture from the home of the driver)

I have been thinking about how Microsoft will save the sluggish Windows 8, whether they will use the traditional desktop mode as a system The main interface instead of using the Metro interface? But Paul Thurrott (the blogger of Winsupersite, who often bursts out of Microsoft's insider) has the opposite idea. Thurrott writes that "most of the common settings for this Windows Blue version are concentrated in "PC Setting", and if you are looking for some evidence to further prove that the desktop mode is constantly weakening, then nothing will be better than it. More suitable.

As previously reported, Windows Blue has added a number of new settings, including settings that were previously only tunable to the control panel in desktop mode. This is a signal that Microsoft is indeed weakening desktop mode, and Windows 9 may not have desktop mode. ” As for the more recent example, he said, "This Windows Blue version of the default application settings interface has been completely Metroized. And some Windows viewers, such as ComputerWorld's Preston Gralla, agree with Thurrott: "This is a good chance, and Microsoft may eventually kill desktop mode in Windows 9. “In Windows 8, Microsoft made the traditional desktop mode the last remedy (users are not used to Metro can go directly to desktop mode), let it exist on the start screen in the form of an active tile. Windows 8 is largely prepared for touchscreen devices, and desktop mode has less and less space to live on these devices. ”

But other people, such as Byte's Larry Seltzer, apparently disagreed with this statement. He said: "Who would really believe this?" The desktop mode of Windows is the "main force" of the operating system, especially in comparison with competitors' products. For a long time, more than N of professional knowledge and customized applications have been generated on the Windows desktop, and Microsoft will not alienate these people. ”

I agree with Seltzer's statement, except for … well, Microsoft is really alienating us. I know that some users are rushing past the Metro interface after booting up and entering the traditional desktop system as quickly as possible. If Thurrott's predictions are correct, then Windows users will only be able to perform various operations on the Metro interface.

Although there is a lot of discussion, there is also a source telling us that Microsoft will not erase the desktop mode in a short time. “Resolving the problems of hundreds of thousands of desktop programs will take years, even longer —— to transfer them to WinRT as well. Just bringing Office to Windows RT is a huge project. "Of course, Microsoft is also a way to solve these problems: transfer all its business applications to the cloud platform, and turn their software into a service (SaaS) application. This is in line with Ed Bott's point of view: Microsoft will become a cloud service provider with an independent hardware product line in the future.

If transferring business applications to the cloud platform is really Microsoft's future plan, then it may indeed abandon the Windows 8 desktop model. Of course, I am not happy with this because I don't like the Metro interface. But the combination of cloud services and Windows devices with Metro interfaces may indeed make Microsoft win the future.

If you like the desktop mode as much as the author, then you may need to learn to adapt to Linux in the future. Of course, all of the above are just the opinions of many Windows observers. As for what will develop in the end, we have to continue to pay attention to Microsoft's actions to know.