When Microsoft first announced that they would be making a Developer Preview of Windows 8 available for people to play with we could be assured that there would be a lot of things that people were going to rant and pout about, and of course we weren’t let down.
Of all the talk about the new touch interface and the other cool things like possibly having Windows 8 for ARM on launch the one thing that garnered the most chatter, and complaints, was the decision by Microsoft to bring its famous, and much maligned Ribbon Bar to Explorer, Windows’ file management tool.
It was one of those things that you either were going to like, or at least be willing to live with, or you were on the side of the ragers and had no hesitation in blasting Microsoft over the decision.
Well it seems that while Microsoft has said for the most part that the user interface in Windows 8 is a done deal there are some changes that they are willing to make based on the incredible amount of feedback they have had on the next-gen operating system. In a post that went up on the Windows 8 blog the company outlined some of the changes slash improvements that they planned on making in time for the next ‘beta’ release and right up there was the Ribbon Bar.
It seems that rather than shipping Explorers with the “full” Ribbon Bar part of the Explorer interface being the default display after installing Windows 8 they have decided that Explorer will be sporting the minimized style of the Ribbon Bar by default. In other words it will be like the old style as in Windows 7, or very similar, and if you want the full Ribbon Bar experience you will have to turn it on.
- Some of the other changes coming in the next release of Windows 8 are:
- New details information in the Copy File Conflicts dialog
- Copying will know use the fasted available method to copy over network on the fly (wireless or wired)
- Fixed the navigation pane scrolling issue
- Explorer will now respect picture orientation metadata
- Explorer overlay changes to improve performance
There’s more information at the Windows 8 blog in case you are interested.
via VentureBeat
