{"id":146702,"date":"2014-02-19T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/?p=146702"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:58:05","slug":"windows-phone-bing-app-updates-zeigen-platformintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/windows-phone-bing-app-updates-zeigen-platformintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone Bing-App-Updates zeigen Platformintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Im Artikel Ein App-Store f\u00fcr n\u00e4chstes Windows Phone & Windows<\/a> hatte ich ja letzten September von Microsofts Pl\u00e4nen berichtet, dass Apps f\u00fcr Windows RT \/ 8\/8.1 und Windows Phone 8.x in einem gemeinsamen Store zusammen gef\u00fchrt werden. Sehen wir jetzt die ersten Anzeichen? Und noch ein Infosplitter: Microsoft erkl\u00e4rt den Metro-Zwang in Windows 8\/8.1 \u2013 ganz lesenswert \u2013 einen Kommentar konnte ich mir aber nicht verkneifen.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Gestern k\u00fcndigte Microsoft<\/a> neue und aktualisierte Bing-Apps f\u00fcr Windows Phone an. Interessant ist ein Blick auf die Meldung.<\/p>\n

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Today, the Bing Team is announcing a comprehensive update for their existing Bing apps on Windows Phone (Bing News, Bing Finance, Bing Weather, and Bing Sports) and introducing 3 brand new apps<\/i>: Bing Food & Drink, Bing Health & Fitness, and Bing Travel. Along with fresh features, your personalized content from all 7 of the Bing apps will now roam across all your Windows devices<\/strong>. For example: any places you've added in the Bing Weather app will now roam and sync between your Windows PC or Tablet and<\/i> your Windows Phone! Just set up once with your Microsoft Account, and you're all set.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Es gibt nicht nur drei neue Apps Essen, Gesundheit und Reisen, die wir bereits aus Windows 8.1 kennen. Microsoft f\u00fchrt auch aus, dass die Bing-Apps nun \u00fcber alle Windows-Ger\u00e4te verf\u00fcgbar seien (roamen) und Daten synchronisieren k\u00f6nnen. Ist wohl der erste Schritt auf vereinheitlichte Apps f\u00fcr die Plattformen Windows und Windows Phone. Zumindest interpretiert Techcrunch.com<\/a> das so. <\/p>\n

Update: Bei Dr. Windows gibt es noch diesen Beitrag<\/a> mit ein paar Infos zu den neuen Apps, die auch unter Windows 8.1 aktualisiert wurden. Zitat: Personalisierte Werbung \u2013 Martin Geu\u00df liefert auch gleich die Kur, um das abzustellen.<\/p>\n

Warum Metro f\u00fcr euch \"Gelegenheitsnutzer\" gut tut<\/h3>\n

So k\u00f6nnte man mehr oder weniger die \u00dcberschrift f\u00fcr eine Diskussion auf reddit.com<\/a> zwischen Microsoft-Mann Jacob Miller (User-Interface Designer) und den Nutzern betiteln. Ursp\u00fcnglich ging es um die Tatsache, dass Windows 8 nur schlecht verkauft wird \u2013 und die Nutzer ziehen vom Leder. Unter dem Nick pwnies<\/a> erkl\u00e4rt Jacob die Welt aus seiner Sicht (bzw. von Microsoft) und erl\u00e4utert, warum man bei Microsoft die Metro-Benutzeroberfl\u00e4che zwangsweise eingef\u00fchrt habe:<\/p>\n

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Zitat: I want to talk about why we chose Metro as the default instead of the desktop, and why this is good in the long run – especially for power users.<\/p>\n

…but not in the way you might think. <\/p>\n

At this point you're probably expecting me to say that it's designed for keyboard execution, or some thing about improved time trials for launching programs, or some other way of me trying to convince you that Metro is actually useful. I've talked about those in the past extensively on reddit, but for this discussion let's throw that all out the window. For this discussion, assume that Metro is shit for power users<\/strong> (even if you don't believe it to be). <\/p>\n

Now that we're on common ground, let's dive into the rabbit hole. Metro is a content consumption space. It is designed for casual users who only want to check facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user. A power user is a content creator. They have multiple things open on multiple monitors – sometimes with multiple virtual machines with their own nested levels of complexity. <\/p>\n

\"But wait,\" you're thinking, \"You said Metro is good<\/em> for power users, yet now you're saying it's the worst for them, what gives?\" <\/p>\n

Before Windows 8 and Metro came along, power users and casual users – the content creators and the content consumers – had to share the same space. It was like a rented tuxedo coat – something that somewhat fit a wide variety of people. It wasn't tailored, because any aggressive tailoring would make it fit one person great, but would have others pulling at the buttons. Whatever feature we wanted to add into Windows, it had to be something that was simple enough for casual users to not get confused with, but also not dumbed down enough to be useless to power users. Many, MANY features got cut because of this. <\/p>\n

A great example is multiple desktops. This has been something that power users have been asking for for over a decade now. OSX has it, Linux has it, even OS\/2 Warp<\/a> has it. But Windows doesn't. The reason for this is because every time we try and add it to the desktop, we run user tests; and every time we find that the casual users – a much larger part of our demographic than Apple's or Linux's – get confused by it. So the proposal gets cut and power users suffer. <\/p>\n

Our hands were bound, and our users were annoyed with their rented jackets. So what did we do? We separated the users into two groups. Casual and Power. We made two separate playgrounds for them. All the casual users would have their own new and shiny place to look at pictures of cats – Metro. The power users would then have free reign over their native domain – the desktop. <\/p>\n

So why make Metro the default? And why was there no way to boot to desktop in Windows 8.0? <\/p>\n

The short answer is because casual users don't go exploring. If we made desktop the default as it has always been, and included a nice little start menu that felt like home, the casual users would never have migrated to their land of milk and honey. They would still occupy the desktop just as they always had, and we would have been stuck in square one. So we forced it upon them. We drove them to it with goads in their sides. In 8.1, we softened the points on the goads by giving users an option to boot directly to desktop. <\/p>\n

Now that the casual users are aware of their new pasture, we can start tailoring. It will be a while before the power users start seeing the benefits of this (that's why I said they'd benefit in the long run). Right now we still have a lot of work to do on making Metro seem tasty for those casual users, and that's going to divert our attention for a while. But once it's purring along smoothly, we'll start making the desktop more advanced. We'll add things that we couldn't before. Things will be faster, more advanced, and craftier than they have in the past – and that's why Metro is good for power users.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bei winfuture.de hat man es hier in ein paar deutsche Worte gefasst<\/a>: Der Gelegenheitsnutzer experimentiert nicht und h\u00e4tte nie die Startseite samt Apps zu sehen bekommen. F\u00fcr mich ist die Aussage Metro is shit for power users <\/strong>von Jacob schon bemerkenswert. Aber die vielen Worte um den hei\u00dfen Brei k\u00f6nnen nicht kaschieren, dass Metro \u2013 zumindest in meinen Augen – eine reine Marketing-Entscheidung war. Nicht \"was braucht der Benutzer\" war die Frage, sondern \"was m\u00fcssen wir machen, um dem Benutzer zwangsweise mehr Geld aus der Tasche ziehen zu k\u00f6nnen\" stand im Vordergrund. Anders ist z.B. Windows RT und der ganze App-Ansatz mit Store-Zwang nicht zu erkl\u00e4ren. F\u00fcr ich interessant: Ein ehemaliger Microsoft-Mitarbeiter hat unter dem Pseudonym decigraham<\/a> dann auch ein wenig aus dem N\u00e4hk\u00e4stchen geplaudert. Zur\u00fcck zum Beef: Wenn Microsoft die oben fett markierte Erkenntnis (gehabt) h\u00e4tte, w\u00e4re es eine kleine Finger\u00fcbung gewesen, das Ganze per Gruppenrichtlinie oder Option zu- bzw. abschaltbar zu machen. Option 1: Startmen\u00fc nutzen per Kontrollk\u00e4stchen an-\/abw\u00e4hlbar. Option 2: Startseite und Moderen UI-Apps nutzen per Kontrollk\u00e4stchen an-\/abw\u00e4hlbar. Schon w\u00e4re der K\u00e4se gegessen gewesen und uns viele Diskussionen erspart geblieben. Wollte oder konnte man nicht. Was mich wieder zur These \"Marketing-Decision\" zur\u00fcckbringt. Und s\u00fc\u00df finde ich die von winfuture.de interpretierte Aussage \"Windows 7 h\u00e4tte es ohne Vista so nicht gegeben \u2013 hoffen wir, dass Windows 9 da ankn\u00fcpfen kann\". Na dann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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