Thread: Microsoft gives insight into Windows Explorer-8

In recent weeks, Microsoft released many details about Windows 8 known, including the integration of an improved copy routine and an App Store . Well first you have a deeper insight into one of the most important components of the new operating system grants.


It is the Explorer, which primarily serves the file manager. This is similar to the current version of the Office suite , have called the Ribbon interface, the operation in comparison to Windows 7 and previous versions of Windows Explorer integrated to simplify and speed up significantly.




Internally and walked one assumes that the changes will come in relation to the surface just in so-called power users with skepticism. However, we have found through various studies, that most of the more than 200 functions are rarely used. The ten most-used functions are available for almost 82 percent of all orders, including inserting, copying, deleting, and renaming. At the same time but was also checked, in what way users make the entries in the Explorer.


The result here: nearly 55 percent of all cases was to invoke the context menu, that is 32 percent of the entries were made by the appropriate command buttons. But only ten of one hundred cases, the command bar was used. Surprisingly, this was the sense that it this is the most obvious visual input method. Noticeable is, that only two of the ten most frequently used commands are available from the command bar.


One reason we have decided to take the radical revision. The aim of this it was to provide a hand for greater efficiency in dealing with the Explorer, on the other hand, make the menus clear and yet comprehensive. Oriented, it had been also thinking of the Explorer versions in Windows 95, XP, Vista and 7 The result is now used in the surface, which provides significantly more functionality in the same space. This one has five groups - combined - File, Home, Share, and View Manager.