Indie developers inspired by tiles.
Barely days after Microsoft revealed its new and fresh Windows 8 user interface, people want it on Windows 7, now.
One developer from Italy thinks he has the answer for those eager Windows 7 users waiting on Windows 8. Sergio James Bruccoleri is currently working on an early version of what he calls “Immersive UI” for Windows 7. Bruccoleri described Windows 8′s new user interface as “fantastic” in an email to WinRumors. “Windows 8 is coming in 2012, so I decided to create a concept in Photoshop and one hour later…an application,” he said. Bruccoleri believes the immersive UI is important for the future of Microsoft’s systems and PC technology but he doesn’t want to wait until 2012.
Immersive UI for Windows 7 is in the very early stages but shows interesting promise. Bruccoleri has created an early video of his application and is working on a public beta, due some time in July. The initial offering will come without some effects because Bruccoleri is still working on the application. He plans to include the following features:
■ Custom Tile for Applications and Videogames
■ Split Screen – Multitask like in Microsoft’s video
■ Facebook Push Message on Start Menu
■ New Media Center – browsing pictures, music and videos within the UI
■ Support for Windows 8 7955 (With Application Menu Only for this version)
■ Immersive Browser Included
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 user interface has proved a hit across the web after the software giant revealed it earlier this month. The original “building Windows 8″ YouTube video has clocked up nearly 4 million views in a week. The new user interface takes elements from the company’s Windows Phone 7 software. Microsoft will allow users to launch apps from a tile-based start screen, which replaces the traditional Windows Start menu. Applications include live tile notifications and fluid, natural switching between applications. Microsoft has also built in the ability to snap and resize an application to the side of the screen and multitask outside of the new touch UI. The new applications will be web powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript, with full access to the power of the PC.
source:winrumors,pcperspectives
