Windows 10: Microsoft Confirms the Windows 10 Start Menu Is Getting New Features

I was referring to the image gallery of the screenshots, not Softpedia site. IE also shows screenshots in Cyrilic. Can't be helped, it's what Softpedia posted!

 

First, the X-Server model, while it has some advantages, also has a ton of disadvantages. For example, apps cannot control their own "chrome" so to speak, can't move themselves around, or do a lot of things that are important. Some people might think this is a good thing, and in some cases that would be true, in others not so much... think about Kiosks and other environments where you don't want the users to control the environment.

Second, KDE, Gnome, etc.. are largely just a suite of applications with a set of UI controls. That's something that could be (and has been) done on Windows before. The "Window Manager" is the one thing that Windows can't easily do (although there are ways to simulate it).

This multiple UI concept has been the bane of the Unix worlds existence though, particularly when it comes to usability and consistency. A user can't go from one machine to another and know how to use it. You think going from XP to 7 to 8 is bad? It's nothing compared to the various environments that may be configured for any given Unix/Linux. Hell, you can't even be sure how the mouse will operate.