I still keep wondering why people can dream up working prototypes of stuff like this on their own, but no-one at microsoft takes the lead in actually making sure stuff like this makes it into the final build. No, they spend weeks hassling around visual concepts of where the tooltip for the tiny taskbar items should be positioned...

This looks a lot like the early concepts for longhorn

awesome.

looks a lot like Mac OS X

What's stopping him from making it for Linux?

What's stopping him from releasing it as a shell replacement?

Charge $49.95 as a desktop shell program for Windows 7, let a couple of sites like cnet review it and he'll be a millionaire within days.

I say microsoft should just hold a contest for best interface design. The big M gets some new blood on the dev team and a slick interface and a some deserving programmer or several get a nice new job

Why does everyone use blinding white flashes for cliche transitions.

The white flashes are horrible interruptions in continuity, let alone painful on the pupils.

I still say bumptop is the way to go if you want absolute user interface. and not to mention the free version of it is outstanding as is. go to bumptop.com if you want to try it out for your self. and no this is not spam i am simply saying why wait for the stuff in the video when you cant get most of that right now this very instant.

The best user interface ever was on the Atari 1040ST. Windows classic comes the closest.

This doesn't look very useable at all actually. Plus the way it's presented makes it very hard to actually follow any of the UI's innovations. I just saw a lot of flashes, a mouse moving very mechanically across a stuttering animation.

Microsoft should hire this guy? Well he'd better learn to present his work better before hoping for that to happen.

I don't know why Microsoft and Apple don't simply make a customizable user interface. If they allow the users to make their own setup and then update as they go, all the pointless focus groups and exec meetings could be bypassed and simply used to decide which of the best features should be standard next time.

That was awful. Seriously.
It moved from one thing to the next far too quickly, too many annoying flashes, things stretching and shrinking and flying all over the place like a pilot with adhd.
The actual usability looked almost none existent.
The presentation looked like something from a high school student.

Let's see, it starts of with a comment from BillG which we all know ain't gonna happen.

Then we go to a lot of flash. I will give him lots and lots of credit for being able to accomplish what he did, but these operating system user interfaces are going the way of the automobile, getting to the point that the average person is no longer able to work on it. For me, XP was simple, straight forward and with a little paintence could pretty much find anything without going thru 50 clicks to get there.
Go back to XP 64 and improve it instead of always reinventing the wheel.

This is such a great idea. I would go bye it the instant it comes out.

some stuff there looks real nice. the login window, file explorer, especially, and maybe even the desktop files arrangement .

but the rest look god awful from a usability standpoint, especially the taskbar.

considering this was made by one guy, i think its pretty impressive, non of the flamers could do this type of work

it could only get better and im happy to see this kind of innovation a change needs to happen in the windows gui besides just the changes to windows 7

@scott

That is complete BS,

Anyone with time on their hands can make something like this

Hm.
Problem is, I can forsee that design being a huge processor/memory hog.
Nice design, but a little too bold. Maybe if Windows 7 is a success and Microsoft doesn't need to release another OS until 2016... but for now, too bold.

But yes, It takes a lot of ideas from Mac/Linux.
I am not a fan of his windows media player and internet explorer integration though. As someone who uses Firefox, Chrome, Winamp, and VLC as alternatives, I would not approve of a Windows OS caching memory to use programs I would not use.

Very pretty. A lot along the lines of the 'ribbon' interface, functionally (dys-functionally?)
FLUFF not function.
BUT, personally: It IS beautiful personal expression. Nothing here that can't be done in WinXP or even 2K. It's not the OS, it's the UI.

man, unemployed people sure do have a lot of time for flashy presentations.

Ugh-ly, except for the parts that already are on Mac OS X. Windoze on every desktop, indeed.

Looks like horrible usability. With everything moving and resizing itself, it will be impossible for users to build motor memory for everyday functions. Or, when they do, they'll realize all the wasted efficiency and time spent waiting for things to stretch and move. It's similar to the horrible usability in the Mac OS X Dock where as none of the icons are always in the same place depending on how many windows are minimized. You always have to hunt for the thing you want. Windows 7 allows you to pin the things you want to the left, therefore keeping them in the same place so that you can build motor memory and increase efficiency.

I like it!!! It looked awsome and so easy to use. Where can I get one???

This looks like a game for kids.
Since the majority of Windows users are trying to get work done, keep this type of interface for the kids, and create a simple interface for us grownups.

This presentation is much more, ahem, presentable if you turn the sound off.

The switch user/logon screen looks like it was ripped from the 3d desktop used by Sabayon Linux. Wish windows users could discover how Linux is so much better than anything ever offered by Microsoft, but all most of them know how to do is "point and click".

I honestly liked the presentation because it was something different.

However the white flash was rather annoying and zooming in on everything to present detail on everything he touched was hard to follow. Almost like a bad fight scene where the Directory says zoom way the heck in so you can't really see whats going on.

The ideas where really cool, but I'm personally for keeping things simple Like XP.

The constant use of white flashes on TV is bad enough. I couldn't stand more of them on my PC. They're too distracting to even notice the rest of the interface.

I LIKE IT, for all you nay-say'ers at least this guy is doing SOMETHING, and not complaining about it.

LOVE IT, GREAT presentation

Looks nice, flashy, sometimes extremely aggravating trying to move s--t around when theirs a hangup.

Also looks like it'll rape your cpu and memory. Windows 8 the new 4gb min os lol

Honestly I don't care about looks, I just want it to do it's job and not have s--t anywhere and everywhere for me to have to go through and click on to do something simple like every dumb ass os they've come out with.

the last thing that should happen is this wizard join Microsoft. Gone would be the creativity, originality and any semblance of genius. He should offer this as replacement for the existing shell, the OEM's would eat it up. And as for Microsoft not being able to develop something like this, well, Windows 7 and Vista are what you get when you have 100K coke headed programmers in working on the same project.

This was very similar in a lot of ways to Mac OSX. (expandable dock, Auto pop-up folders, even some of the folder icons look like they were taken from older concepts of the Mac OS (ever heard of Copeland? it was a concept of OSX that was junked prior to adoption of Steve Job's NEXT OS).

Nice song and all, but it was not new. Except for using terms like mash-ups (ubiquity is a great plug in for that).

I smell some f aux viral work at hand here...

Awesome!! Yes, as someone else said...WTF do those overpaid employees at MS do all day? Fix and repair their products??? This guy, Cullen needs to go into business for himself. No wonder you can't call MS and get on phone tech support, they're too embarrassed by users out there.

I didn't see anything that wasn't done better on a Mac running OSX 10.5 Leopard (or even 10.4 Tiger for that matter).

Does Microsoft spend 90% of the time making an OS look shiny?Maybe if they spent time on the other parts,they wouldn't need dozens of patches a month.

paintedjazz

whatever. Apple hasn't done jack with their UI since 10.2 Everything since is slight modifications and the occasional feature addition. sorry but dropping Expose and then Spotlight doesn't = some revolutionary OS. Plus OS X may be advanced in some ways but tell me what you do if an OS X patch goes bad on install? I had this happen on my MBP last year on 10.5. Apple's response? Redo the system. Windows I simply do a rollback or an uninstall of the patch. There is no such thing as an uninstall routine for OS X. For apps you are to delete the app then go hunting around your library for orphaned files. For the OS? You are just outright fooked.

That honestly looks quite terrible.

in the olden days, i had a bumper sticker that read, "windows 95 = mac 89." (i lived in palo alto, so that wasnt as esoteric as youd think). i think a new one along the lines of "windows 2010 = mac 2001" is in order....so theyre actually losing ground to apple!

but really, that interface looks mighty graphics intensive. my dell xps m1530 runs incredibly hot already (my macbook pro, on the other hand, runs 15 degrees cooler despite having two graphics cores).

Ah, it's so funny to always hear the Windows people (who usually hate MS) flame the Mac, and then watch MS constantly try to replicate it. While this video was cute, frankly it mostly looked confusing and ultimately what they always miss is the fact that Apple does it just as pretty and 100 x more elegantly.

LOOK AT COMPIZ FUSION:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w

WINDOWS IS THOUSANDS OF LIGHTYEARS FAR AWAY FROM COMPIZ FUSION DESKTOP AND MAC OS X.

This interface looks terrible. I don't want the computer trying to make associations for me or subfolders within subfolders. I want the operating system to use as little memory and processing power as possible so that the computers resources are free to run the programs that I actually care about. Windows classic style interface works fine. You click on a program icon and it run's, you open a folder and all of the programs in that folder are displayed. their is no need for the fancy stuff.

Where do I pay to keep this off my desktop? I don't want entertainment from my OS, I just want it to keep m icons where I left them and run my programs as fast as possible. And if I want random bright flashes in my face I'll stare at flashbulbs as long as I still have functional retinas. This programmer should apply his no doubt estimable skills to something that performs work.

@SiliconAddict

There's a reason the UI for OS X hasn't been drastically modified. It works and works very well. Every time you see a major UI change it means the previous one was deficient at best or, as is the case with every version of Microsoft OS's since DOS 5, just plain sucked.

Well, it certainly does look interesting, but I have to agree with others that it looks like a total memory/cpu hog, which I simply will not abide by.

And OS X isn't all that great. Really.

Very nice, keep up this !

Like i said before if you want something like in the video use bumptop. it is not an os replacement it is simply a user interface device that is to kin a virtual literal desktop with papers and what not. But seriously if you are on the edge of this type of interface or dont know about the free flow system, Bumptop.com is the place to go to try out this sort of absolute user interface type systems. try it, you wont regret it and if anything you'll have had an experience of what the future has to offer. And if nothing else at least watch the demo of the interface Once again BUMPTOP.COM is the place to go to for the perfect user interface. sorry macs but it is currently only for pc.

Looks like they took a lot of concepts from OS X. And yes, OS X is spectacular. There's a reason Apple is taking desktop market share.

I've had four or five die-hard Windows fan-boy friends that have switched to Mac after trying OS X. They say they'll never go back.

First off, if this is what Windows 7 should have been, then the US military should have already nuked Redmond. Seriously, this is about as user friendly as trying to walk across 10 lanes of rush-hour traffic taking baby steps.

I'm not a Mac lover, nor am I a M$ lover or a *nix lover. I'd love for a OS to run on a modern day computer but only take up, say 500MB tops, rely on the programs to give the OS any graphical "flavor", boot faster than Windows 7 on a solid state disc on a top-of-the-line computer, and above all, be user friendly.

That being said, if it ever occurs, I'll probably die of heart failure, as no OS is even attempting to cut down on the size and maximize its usability in any way that doesn't involve lots and lots of graphics.

Okay, I stand corrected, there are a few micro-distro's of linux out there that do that.

That being said, for the love of god people, you're not going to change the minds of others with saying "this is better than this". Prove it. In person. With physical proof. Show comparisons. Do whatever. Just quit bi- err, quit whining about which OS is better.

How many different ways to get to apps does this dude think we need? Hell of a lot of mousing. Visually nice, but not very usable. You know what I think is usable, SEARCH. I love Quicksilver on my Mac and Launcy on my Windows. Ctrl + space, type in part of a file or program name, hit enter, and it's open.

this is really silly and not a real stuff could help windows users.

Nice, though the mouse moved awkwardly, but maybe it was just programmed, not moved with a hand.

One thing in particular caught my attention: If this is a fantasy, a concept, why would anybody put intrusive stuff in there? I mean the "you have used the program X n times, blah blah blah" -dialog that popped up somewhere in between. It is exactly stuff like that that makes me wonder how could anybody tolerate windows as their OS voluntarily. I do not want to be notified that I´m connected to my WLAN, I expect to be and please dont bother me with that. I do not want to be asked whether I want to rearrange or clean up my desktop. Just stay outta my way, I+ll ask for help if I want it, thank you very much.

BTW my work is to maintain and support XPs, Vistas, 2K Servers, 10.5 Servers and desktops at work, no fanbois here.

Truth of the matter is MS has to design for the average user. Unfortunately that does not fit most of us who read these forums. My guess is the Apple users are a bit more tech savy on the average. I actually prefer Win7 to Mac OS.

That was awful. Seriously.
It moved from one thing to the next far too quickly, too many annoying flashes, things stretching and shrinking and flying all over the place like a pilot with adhd.
The actual usability looked almost none existent.
The presentation looked like something from a high school student.

That was awful. Seriously.
It moved from one thing to the next far too quickly, too many annoying flashes, things stretching and shrinking and flying all over the place like a pilot with adhd.
The actual usability looked almost none existent.
The presentation looked like something from a high school student.

That was awful. Seriously.
It moved from one thing to the next far too quickly, too many annoying flashes, things stretching and shrinking and flying all over the place like a pilot with adhd.
The actual usability looked almost none existent.
The presentation looked like something from a high school student.

That was awful. Seriously.
It moved from one thing to the next far too quickly, too many annoying flashes, things stretching and shrinking and flying all over the place like a pilot with adhd.
The actual usability looked almost none existent.
The presentation looked like something from a high school student.

It looks like an excuse for more bloatware. What I'd really pay $$$ for is a version of windows that runs FASTER (not slower!) on my existing PC. I envision a version of Windows that doesn't need a hard-drive reformat and reinstall once a year to keep running efficiently. I'd love a Windows that doesn't choke on peripherals when there are 20 different versions/types of drivers out there for every device. And I personally would like the OPTION to remove my Internet Explorer out of windows.

Come on Microsoft... stop putting out the same old tired OS with just another lump of bloated slow add-ons as last year. Let's see something new, faster, and cleaner!

Wow.

I'm just waiting to see some Telltale WINE code in Windows 7/8/Whatever. If I see that, maybe there's some hope for Microsoft.

Or maybe they'll scrap everything, turn Windows as it is into a Virtual PC; and rebrand a total new OS. Pathway maybe?

Hm. This is actually sounding pretty good. Anyone writing this down?

Did they copy lot of stuffs from Ubuntu/Kubuntu?