{"id":2721,"date":"2013-03-24T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2013-03-24T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T21:28:44","slug":"windows-blue-designers-drawing-inspiration-from-windows-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/24\/windows-blue-designers-drawing-inspiration-from-windows-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Blue designers drawing inspiration from Windows 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2723\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Windows1.0.png\" alt=\"Image courtesy  of Wikipedia.\" width=\"520\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Windows1.0.png 520w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Windows1.0-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy  of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Windows1.0.png\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft Windows features non-overlapping windows, drew a bit of interest, but failed to capture the mind-share and marketshare of its popular predecessor. I am, of course, speaking of Windows 1.0 and MS-DOS. But, the description fits Windows 8 and Windows 7 too. Windows 1.0, however, could do something Windows 8 Metro (Modern Design) cannot: Windows 1.0 could display more than two tiled windows at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The designers of the update to Windows 8, codenamed Blue, appear to be drawing inspiration from Windows 1.0. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/3\/24\/4141286\/windows-blue-screenshots-leak-smaller-live-tiles-options-ui\">The Verge reports<\/a> that Blue will allow more than two tiled windows too. Unfortunately, only a single row of tiles will be allowed. I encourage the Blue design team to take a closer look at Windows 1.0 (see screenshot above) to draw from its advanced 1985 design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2722\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snapviewwinblue1_1020_verge_super_wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snapviewwinblue1_1020_verge_super_wide.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of The Verge\" width=\"520\" height=\"174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snapviewwinblue1_1020_verge_super_wide.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/snapviewwinblue1_1020_verge_super_wide-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/3\/24\/4141290\/windows-blue-screenshots\">The Verge<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Windows features non-overlapping windows, drew a bit of interest, but failed to capture the mind-share and marketshare of its popular predecessor. I am, of course, speaking of Windows 1.0 and MS-DOS. But, the description fits Windows 8 and Windows 7 too. Windows 1.0, however, could do something Windows 8 Metro (Modern Design) cannot: Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-HT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}