Microsoft is in the midst of a torrid love affair with squares and rectangles. They put content into squares. Then they pack those squares into rectangles. Then they make bigger rectangles out of those rectangles. I get it. I understand the attraction. I’m a big fan of boxes myself. They are a fine way to organise things.
I suppose it’s about time that Microsoft begin presenting a united front. This is what the Windows Phone 7 interface wants to look like. It’s what the new touchscreen tablet and PC version of Windows 8 looks like, so by gum it should be what Xbox Live looks like.
Republished from Kotaku
Stewart Walker
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:29 AMI think this is great news. MS has needed a joint look and feel for a long time and I’m glad to see it happen.
Whether it be good or bad, it’s about time.
Travis
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 11:10 AMWell since the anti-trust has been finished you see MSFT is really starting to push what every other company has been allowed to do for years. merge and connect their own products.
Stewart Walker
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:00 PMhaha, so true. It’s a shame that the EU doesn’t go after Apple and google for the same thing. Hell, Chrome OS is basically a OS Browser.
Cameron
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 11:14 AMSo. Much. White……
Steve
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 2:07 PMI kind of like the addition of Youtube; according to the Fall,2011 – system update.
glittalogik
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 3:57 PMI hope this means they’re entering the 21st Century and throwing in some smooth scrolling for media screens. Navigating through hundreds of files is needlessly clumsy, especially compared to a mature UI like the PS3 or any of Apple’s media/TV products.
adam
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 5:53 PMlol PS3 has the worst UI
Ash
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 9:53 AMMe likey.
Tyler
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 10:56 AMI hope you’ll be able to customise all of the colors, both the tiles and the background.
But this new UI looks harder to navigate with the controller .. ?
Tristan
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:32 PMOnly if you can change it to any other colour..