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[rodneyej]

Hey!! Join our Surface Duo Facebook page. It's for fans of MS's upcoming SD! Come check us out.
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[DavidBS1989]

Just demand them to put a default UI with Live Tiles and not follow this horrible Android/iOS tendency.

 

[Indistinguishable]

Just demand them to put a default UI with Live Tiles and not follow this horrible Android/iOS tendency.

I was an early adopter of Windows 8. I started using WP7 in 2010. Went from WP7, to WP7.8, to WP8, to WP8.1, to W10Mobile. I loved Metro design, live tiles, etc...

And now i'm using an Android phone with Microsoft Launcher Beta. It's a wonderful, smooth, experience. It's good to recognize when the past is the past and move on.

 

[DavidBS1989]

I was an early adopter of Windows 8. I started using WP7 in 2010. Went from WP7, to WP7.8, to WP8, to WP8.1, to W10Mobile. I loved Metro design, live tiles, etc...

And now i'm using an Android phone with Microsoft Launcher Beta. It's a wonderful, smooth, experience. It's good to recognize when the past is the past and move on.

Is there any difference between the "normal" MS Launcher IU and the beta one? MS Launcher just change a little the icons, but they still being the same Android icons, which provide as result an overloaded UI, more opressive that having a Live Tiles UI with the same info in less loaded.

 

[neoberry99]

Joined!

 

[Indistinguishable]

Is there any difference between the "normal" MS Launcher IU and the beta one? MS Launcher just change a little the icons, but they still being the same Android icons, which provide as result an overloaded UI, more opressive that having a Live Tiles UI with the same info in less loaded.

I find the beta to be snappier and more fluid. I also think the design is more fluent and less Androidy.

You're not going to see live tiles because they're a more in line with the Metro design language, and less in line with the Fluent design language.

 

[DavidBS1989]

I find the beta to be snappier and more fluid. I also think the design is more fluent and less Androidy.

You're not going to see live tiles because they're a more in line with the Metro design language, and less in line with the Fluent design language.

I searched images of the Beta MS Launcher, and I just see the same Android Like icons. In fact, I don't see any good diference with the Android UI at least. I don't understand why MS is doing this.

 

[Lucas234]

It differs from the normal, non-beta launcher in that they've rebuilt it from the ground up with new code. They're future-proofing themselves. It has most of the same Microsoft services integrations, and more features will be added to bring it up to par with the regular version, and in time that one will be abandoned and the beta launcher will take the helm.