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UI
This is all great feedback. Thank you everyone. I am ensuring that the right people are seeing this thread. Keep in mind, we are not done making changes to the user experience, so check back often and let us know if we are getting better or not as we go.
Thanks,
Elliot
Elliot Kirk This is the beginning of some really great work. People will always hate on aesthetics - can't please everyone. For my part, I like it. I don't spend my browsing time staring at the menus, but interacting with the content on the page. But, I do like the subtle rounded edges more. Also consider that people are more likely to complain than to affirm; my sense - as a service provider myself - is that there has to be a certain amount of dilution applied for vague complaints ("it's new I don't like it").
Specifics: one thing that was problematic with UWP Edge was the font rendering. Font rendering across UWP has been really bad across all the apps, even on quite high DPI monitors. It is nice to interact with fonts properly rendered, as they are in the preview build. Very good work.
My hope is that this will spur Microsoft to get back into the consumer service game, reimagining Maps and Groove for the Android/iOS platforms in order to present the user with a viable alternative ecosystem to the Google hydra.
I like the new aesthetics as well...👍
Is there any kind of development map or plan that we can see? Some way of knowing if, say, the UI development is done, etc. It's no use loads of people talking about the lack of fluent UI if it's never going to happen, etc. Or even timescales for new edge as an insider build and planned full release?
- We don't have a timetable yet. We do, however, have a lot of work going on. We are also trying to understand which areas are the best investments for our customers. We really want to make sure that we build the features that you all want, and we build them well. Please keep sending us your feedback and suggestions as that is our best guide.
Thanks,
ElliotElliot Kirk Which is why a "timetable" or something similar, with planned features community can vote on to speed-up the development would be great. Otherwise, everything is just a disorganized mess with people posting their ideas, not even being aware of the ideas of some others-which might be an improvement of their own-because they are too lazy to read them all.
