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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?"
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).