{"id":10,"date":"2012-07-22T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/?p=10"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:45:24","slug":"what-windows-8-should-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/mods\/what-windows-8-should-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"What Windows 8 Should Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of how amazing a concept the Metro UI is, we would expect Microsoft to have put it to good use. Instead, what we have is a Tablet Interface shoved on us Desktop users, and there&#8217;s no escaping it.<\/p>\n<p>I have themed my Windows 7 with what I felt represents the Metro UI&nbsp;concept&nbsp;best.<br \/>\nTheme: <a href=\"http:\/\/oliver182.deviantart.com\/art\/WP7-Mango-VS-221211005\">WP7 Mango VS<\/a><br \/>\nLockscreen:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/poiznxx.deviantart.com\/art\/Windows-7-Metro-UI-Login-215870241\">Metro UI Login<\/a><br \/>\nFoobar Skin: <a href=\"http:\/\/fanco86.deviantart.com\/art\/Metro-163447843\">Metro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of room for improvement (icons, colors, fonts, etc) and I will get around to tweaking it at some point, but this is a lot better than the joke we&#8217;ve got in the name of Windows 8.<\/p>\n<h4>Lockscreen:<\/h4>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lockscreen.png\" alt=\"Windows Lockscreen\" width=\"720\" class=\"center content-width\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Explorer and Start Menu:<\/h4>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Explorer-Start-Menu.png\" alt=\"Explorer and Start Menu\" width=\"720\" class=\"center content-width\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Media Player:<\/h4>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Foobar2000.png\" alt=\"Foobar 2000\" width=\"720\" class=\"center content-width\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you guys think? And while you&#8217;re at it, you should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/2\/24\/2822891\/windows-desktop-ui-concept\">this Concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think of how amazing a concept the Metro UI is, we would expect Microsoft to have put it to good use. Instead, what we have is a Tablet Interface shoved on us Desktop users, and there&#8217;s no escaping it.<\/p>\n<p>I have themed my Windows 7 with what I felt represents the Metro UI&nbsp;concept&nbsp;best.<br \/>\nTheme: WP7 Mango VS<br \/>\nLockscreen:&nbsp;Metro UI Login<br \/>\nFoobar Skin: Metro<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of room for improvement (icons, colors, fonts, etc) and I will get around to tweaking it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}