Quote Originally Posted by jcap View Post
I still don't understand why they still refuse to highlight the usefulness of tiles if done right. For tiles to be successful, everything needs to be live - like tile widgets. The tile for the weather app needs to show the current conditions (which you click on to get the full forecast). The mail app should give you the latest message subject and/or sender (and clicking on it should bring you straight to the message). The Music tile should be the "now playing" song and album art (background), and it should have live controls for pause, stop, skip, or jumping to playlist. Twitter should display the latest tweet. Basically, they NEED to turn the start menu into a combination of jump lists, notification menus, and a dashboard. They've failed to do that for two years with Windows 8.
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...s-8-live-tiles

It's only taking them 3 years to get Windows 8 into an "acceptable" state. The writing wasn't on the wall back then, if they had just listened.

Please make me president of the Windows division, thanks.