Mark Shuttleworth Talks About UI – Unity, Metro

This is a long article and it’s worth reading the whole thing. I just want to point out one tiny little piece that, after using Windows 8 since public release, I’ve found to be really true.

[In Windows 8] you have this shiny tablet interface, and you sit and you use  then you press the wrong button then it slaps you in the face and Windows 7 is back. And then you think OK, this is familiar, so you’re kind of getting into it and whack [Windows 8 is back].”

 This is exactly the situation I was in. I loved the new Windows 7’y metro style interface but all of a sudden I’d be in some full screen application. And then back and forth.