So what this looks like to me is that Microsoft took OS X's Dashboard, skinned it with Metro, and moved it to be front and center in the OS's UI.
It definitely looks striking, but seeing as how I wound up not actually using Dashboard -- ever, really -- I'm skeptical about how this will succeed in practice, i.e. in Getting Things Done On A Computer. What is the flow for doing something like working on a Word document, reading/replying to an email, and then switching back to Word?
Insofar as desktops/laptops are concerned, this doesn't appear to help with that flow, and actually appears to interfere with it. That's the point that Gruber is making, I believe.
It definitely looks striking, but seeing as how I wound up not actually using Dashboard -- ever, really -- I'm skeptical about how this will succeed in practice, i.e. in Getting Things Done On A Computer. What is the flow for doing something like working on a Word document, reading/replying to an email, and then switching back to Word?
Insofar as desktops/laptops are concerned, this doesn't appear to help with that flow, and actually appears to interfere with it. That's the point that Gruber is making, I believe.