It's Curtains for WindowBlinds?

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Windows 10X is around the corner and it seems that Microsoft has plans of redesigning the traditional desktop to a more unified experience.

Windows 10 as it is, is a mishmash of modern (metro/windows UI) and traditional win32. Not very pretty. It's very confusing at times, as well when some things can be done through the classic control panel AND through the new settings. There are functional duplications all over the place.

10X is going to change all that. We can expect a unified look across the board. It's basically what they tried to do with Windows 8, but this looks like it could be more successful. Windows 8 tried to force everyone to turn their desktop into a tablet...which was not....popular at all. Win10X looks to give us the best of both worlds and from everything I've seen and read, they may just pull it off.

Does this mean the end for windowblinds? I think it may.

Question is: Is Curtains being developed with 10X in mind? How much of the 10X UI are we going to be able to customize? Only time will tell.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As Max would say.....missed it by that much....

'Curtians'....JAFOCHECK ....;)

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 1

As Max would say.....missed it by that much....

'Curtians'....Spell checker ....
For some reason spell checker does not flag misspellings when writing the post title.....at least in FF

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well, if Stardock gets rid of Windowblinds, I will be gone in an instant. :-(

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Seems to me that MS has again jumped on the bandwagon far too late and is trying to recreate Windows RT to compete with Google's Chrome OS.  Sure, Win 10X will allow users to install legacy apps to a special container, but seriously, how long is that going to last?  Microsoft has been pushing for years to have a cloud based OS that's designed to market 'Modern Apps' from the store, and that's where I think this is heading, to be more competitive with Google and the Apple Store.

How successful that will be, who knows?  It may very well go the way of RT and Windows Phone to die a very lonely death on the pile of other MS failures.  Thing is, 10X is supposedly being preinstalled on new laptops, so users may not have a choice as to whether they end up with 10X when purchasing a new machine.  I suppose they could always purchase a desktop PC with the standard Win 10 instead, but that could have a major impact on manufacturers and laptop sales.

Anyhow, it won't affect me directly because I am not in the market for another laptop and probably never will be.  I have my trusty HP 2-in-1 and that will do me. If and when it dies, then I will revert to my desktop machines, given I don't get out a lot these days and rarely find the need for a portable PC.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To quote Starkers:

"It may very well go the way of RT and Windows Phone to die a very lonely death on the pile of other MS failures."

The Windows Phone OS was my favorite phone OS. If it had an app like iTunes to mange music, it would've been perfect. The way you could arrange your live tiles and resize them and modify the transparency...well, i loved it. The red Nokia 1520 I had was my favorite phone of all the smart phones I've owned.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting SamEVO, reply 7

The Windows Phone OS was my favorite phone OS

Same here, the Windows Phone OS was the best... and still is IMO.  The only reason I went to a Vivo S1 Android phone was because MS decided to drop the Windows Phone and pulled support, therefore opening it up to potential exploits and attacks.  Thing is, I still have my Nokia Lumia 820 Windows phone and it's still working well, but without support and updates it is not worth the risk to keep using it as a phone.  However, it still makes for a good MP3 player.