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Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired
An anonymous reader writes "CPU magazine has written a very straight-to-the-point editorial on the lack of quality and innovation in software for the mainstream OS. They compare it to the Mac, which is found in a much different light. Where has all the innovation gone?" From the article: "There's too much coal and not enough diamonds within the sphere of downloads. The greatest pieces of software are plagued by unintelligent design, and very few rise to the level of ubiquity. Windows users don't have a strong sense of belonging; there's no user community rallying around the platform. We use the computer, certainly, or is the computer using us?"
You're like Purillo, you can't give an example, so you first insult my "understanding of OS X", and then back it up by sending us to an advertisement by Apple as evidence of same?
Mod this guy up funny.
What really is there that is superior to Windows (besides FreeBSD underneath)? And don't you dare say Spotlight... it's a resource pig too (and one it seems you can't turn off either, much like Dashboard.)
C'mon, let's hear it!
A central configuration concept is nice but that is what the registry is branded as, not what it is.
The GP was correct.
"why would Microsoft want to make things harder"
Those things one does through the registry are things Microsoft does not want the average user to understand.
Remember, Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping users stupid and powerless. Much the same way that lords and kings had an interesting in keeping commoners uneducated in the past. An educated user will either move to Linux (the most developed and technically sophisticated system for the x86, *BSD is sophisticated but not nearly as developed as Linux) or MacOSX (the easiest to use and yet still developed and solid system for the PPC).
The real question is when do you need ten different sources of information simultaneously.
The answer? NEVER.
It was a stupid point. I'm sorry I even bothered dignifying it with an answer.
Lol, sorry just saying that it's a stupid point doesn't make it so.
Yes, I personally need those different sources of info at the same time in one place at one time. That's me. Again, just because YOU don't need it doesn't mean that I and others out there don't.
You seem to think that just because you personally don't need Dashboard or other things NOBODY should need that it. How arrogant of you. Who the fuck are you to tell me what I need and don't need?
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Ugly, boring, and uninspired? Sounds like Chris Perillo is talking about himself. I mean, this is fscking CHRIS PERILLO we're talking about here!
File operations? What, you mean like copying files? Did you seriously think that was what I was talking about?
Obviously a 7200RPM Serial ATA HD is going to be faster at reading and writing data than the Sony 400K floppy drive that was state-of-the-art at the time.
I'm talking about those operations you can compare the two on. Like file selection, drag-n-drop, e.g., the responsiveness of the interface. And if you think the 128K Mac Finder doesn't best today's Finger you either haven't a) used a 128K Mac, b) used today's Finder or c) are totally full of shit.