Speculation about Windows8 is largely built from short interviews from Microsoft employees. There have been interviews with Robert Morgan and Anders Vindberg of Microsoft. They say little but give some hints about what is to come.
Will Windows 8 be released in 2012 or 2011? Will it be 128 bit, or 64 bit? Will it be the end of the 32 bit OS, like XP. Will Midori be distributed, or will it be the beginning of a cloud?
The user interface, is probably going to be a big part of the next change in the OS. Consider how much Windows7 was designed to look like the Mac interface, with its jump lists, and taskbar modification and the like.
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Other interfaces have been designed to take advantage of the Windows 7 like Bumptop. Enter the Copenhagen Concept.
Copenhagen was designed by Cullen Dudas. It is is a User Experience concept. “It is unique in the fact that it manages to bring together classic design, contemporary design, usability, and art.”
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Unlike most interfaces, which are linear, the Copenhagen Concept is organized in an entirely different way. It is video like. It makes the interface reactive to the user. It can change and grow, or shrink.
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The Copenhagen Concept changes the desktop, changes the taskbar, changes the logon screen; it changes a whole host of features.
The Windows8 interface may or may not look like the Copenhagen Concept. Microsoft is aware of the concept as Dudas has made contacts with different employees of Microsoft. One cannot determine if there is enthusiasm at the corporate level. However, Microsoft can look at this and decide whether to follow in this path for the user interface, or pursue an entirely different format. But it is worth watching.
Watch a video about the Copenhagen Concept:
