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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?"
Wake me up when you're done frothing at the mouth.
It's all the same
Yes, which explains why Flash has made the web more useful... Oh wait, it hasn't.
As apposed to OSX, which is simply vanilla with some aqua food coloring put into it. Oh the difference it makes. Well actually if you remember back to when Heinz started making green and blue ketchup you might recall people not liking the green and blue stuff so much even though it was just a different color. That might explain why a lot of window uses don't like OSX and vice versa.
So, it seems to me that the problem is that this Chris Pirillo idiot defines consistent, functional, and efficient user interfaces as "Ugly, Boring, & Uninspired".
Maybe he's right. A real man's computer consists of hundreds of tiny little fragments, each of which behaves completely differently and shows no relation or connection to any other fragment. Now that's innovation.
So, in other words, Slashdot OSS fanatics aren't the only people in the world that want Microsoft to die so that they can rule it. The MAC guys got a group like that too.
Now, mod me down. None of the fanatics here want to be confronted with their fanaticism.
BTW, I spell checked the above with Microsoft Word.
I keep hearing the virtues of Mac OS X, and who it's tbe best sodding OS on the planet. Until I see it running happily on my AMD Athlon 64 system, I will remain unimpressed. I am not spending a fortune on a Mac, just for the OS. I'll keep Windows, and it's applications, thanks.
~The TwoTailedFox posts again....
I put my mom in front of an iMac with iPhoto and iMovie and she's never been happier,
Correction, you've never seen her happier. And you've never seen her servicing my manly needs, either, which makes her quite happy.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
Hey, YOU brought up your mother.
Not me.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
NetInfo. ooops. (and you say I don't know what I'm talking about?)
If your trying to compare NetInfo to the registry of Windows then yeah, you don't know what you're talking about.
You haven't demonstrated any knowledge regarding both platforms, so I'll be merciful and leave you be now. But I know that someone like you just can't leave well-enough-alone and come back for more cause you'll want the last word.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/26/ 975606.html
Before any liberals are tempted to mod up one of my comments, a word of warning: I'm actually making fun of you.
Whoa, the innovation, able to close a window in a click, almost like magic...
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler