What kind of tiles do you want in Windows 8?

I'm looking forward to my Visual Studio Team System Build Tile, showing a picture of the person who broke the previous nights build.

A tile with multiple tiles inside of it.

Port my RSS photo slideshows Vista gadgets. I want to have my daily puppies on it.

15 minutes ago, Michael Butler wrote

I'm looking forward to my Visual Studio Team System Build Tile, showing a picture of the person who broke the previous nights build.

A tile showing Microsoft's share price going down, day by day.

For the record, I can't believe that 10 billion dollars worth of R&D in 2010 told Microsoft that people wanted tiles as an interface. I guess they blew some of that on the retina video blaster as well (which will never go live)

Next time have a focus group outside of Redmond.

Tiles written in Silverlight. Sorry couldn't resist.

Tiles that don't require a web service to update it. (WP7)

A tile with a command line in it.

ActiveX host tile

@section31:

It wouldn't make much sense if it doesn't support SL. If not, I wll have a tile that runs IE, and inside IE, runs SL.

Basically using IE App Engine running another IE running SL plugin.

Maybe HP will have a WebOS tile when they start shipping that on their Windows 8 PCs

turtles turtles turtles...

one written in c#, or any language but JS/HTML

A tile that contains a countdown to Ballmer's firing.

Say no to tiles.

Did I miss the memo where the media centre team got put in charge of everything? Windows 8 looks like a toy (Windows 7 is bad enough already). Where to go for people who want a serious operating system?

@rhm: I like Media Center; it works great on my 50" TV. I think tiles are the way to go for tablets, but to be positioning it as the next desktop interface...I'll have to use it myself, but my gut says it won't translate well to a keyboard and mouse.

@rhm:

I used to think XP is kiddy. But, look at how unkiddy it is now.

I would like to write a tile that connects to the security system, alerting me when someone arrives or leaves the building.

Or a gambling title, when you click on it, you can specify a wager and a number of participants for a new game or connect to an existing game. When the participant count reaches the specified count, a random winner is drawn and gets the sum of everyone else's wager.

-Josh

9 hours ago, Cream​Filling512 wrote

A tile with multiple tiles inside of it.

I just realized what you can do with this. Basically you have this as the vista gadget bar along side with the traditional desktop envirnment. This has being demoed in the video where they have office opened in traditional desktop.

So yeah, you if make this, I will use it for sure.