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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?"
They'll be creative and innovative any day now; as soon as they find a creative, innovative company to buy...
We use the computer, certainly, or is the computer using us?
Depends on where you live. Take a wild guess where computers use us.
look at the changes between NT, 2k and XP
Am I the only one who is completely unclear on what was intended by this comparison? I read it in the light of "look at the differences between vanilla, french vanilla and home made vanilla"...
But I gotta say "Comic Life from Plasq" looks like it raises the art of home slideshow torture to previously unimagined levels of pain and suffering.
Watching home movies makes me want to be exceptionally rude to the host.
Having to read Comic Life home comics would force me to gouge my eyes out with my ragged fingernails.
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I disagree.
Me saying something, like, "Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaargh! You bought a Mac, you fashion victim "it just works" fuckhead! Why didn't you try Linux first!? You pointless wank-monkey!", would be a troll.
Everything they've just said is the truth.
Apple mainboard, anyone?
*cough*
Simple:
:P
1. Windows = Yugo (w/Automatic Transmission and Power Steering)
2. Mac OS X = DeLorean
3. GNOME = Kit Car
4. KDE = Yugo (w/Manual Transmission and Manual Steering + DeLorean cardboard facade option)
That about sums up the state of GUIs in this day and age. Let the flames begin!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
From 95 to XP? Man, you obviously haven't used 95 in quite awhile.
- Can now view and kill programs and processes
- Can have multiple user accounts with actual security
- Has a web browser built in
- Plug and Play is no longer "plug and pray"
- You can now re-organize the start menu
- there's a sidebar that shows you more information while browsing in explorer
- You can "stop" what you're doing, let someone else log on for a second, and then go right back to what you were doing
- The system tray now auto-hides itself, with each icon individually able to be "shown" or "hidden"
Yes, a lot of the changes are things that UNIX had before DOS or MAC has ages ago. So what? They're significant changes, and if you can't see them then you're really just trying not to.I've played with the different Windows programs Google offers (Picasa, Google Earth) and I must say I am damn impressed. In a world of ugly widgets and blaring blue start bars, those programs are *beautiful* - I normally use OS X, and they'd be beautiful even by Mac standards. They're amazing programs to boot (well, GE is, Picasa is only "pretty good").
And that's why Google is not yet evil ^^ although they have copyrighted the world....
Exactly. For instance, the interface for "sex" is several million years old, and is therefor completely boring...
I just want to own the freaking hammer, I don't want to join a hammer cult.
I joined a hammer cult, with cool candy-apple red toolboxes and lifetime guarantees on tools and stores that were great places to buy hammers and guys working there who were veritable gurus of how to join things together, make holes in them, and finish them off.
I've bought Sears Craftsman tools that I've never used, because they were so cool. I've got a screwdriver here with 32 unique security tips. I've never had to use a security tip in my life, but if I need to open up a weird sealed box in my car some day, I'm ready for it.
Sears hasn't been quite the same since they merged with or got bought by KMart (one of those big marts anyway), but I'm sticking with the Hammer Cult for now.
Hands up whoever read this comment and instantly thought of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
*raises hand*
I need a life.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
OK, kill the messenger, fine - it was an extremely lame critique of Windows. But it doesn't change the fact that Windows really is boring, ugly and uninspired :)