New Look for Windows Explorer in Windows 8 is... cluttered

A friend offered me a link to a blog named "Developing Windows 8" which turns out to be the blog of the team developing Windows 8. It provides in detail what the new operating system will look and feel like when it comes out.

This edition of the blog features a detailed explanation of Windows Explorer. The team trumpets that it will improve the Windows experience of the user because it will offer a more streamlined user interface.

Now look at this picture from the same blog and tell if this is streamlined. No, you are not looking at the command bar of MS Office Word or Excel. That is how Windows Explorer will look like soon. I think it is a bit cluttered.  With all those menus and buttons, the average might end up pining for the old menu bar.  I think it's more simple and streamlined

My Apple Fanboy friend told me that he's surprised that Microsoft is releasing all of this information in advance. Could it be that the developers are testing the waters and want to know how their target (or captured as my friend calls us) clients will react to it? Perhaps they don't want to make a mishap of giving their clients what they don't actually want.

Watch the video here to listen to Alex Simons of the Windows management team explain what they've been doing with Windows Explorer.