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Microsoft Unveils New Design Studio
shibashaba writes "NewsFactor is reporting that Microsoft has just released a new design studio consisting of the Acrylic Graphic Design, Sparkle Interactive Design and Quartz Web Designer Software. Supposedly the goal is not to compete head to head with the proposed Adobe/Macromedia merger but to turn developers into designers. According to Jupiter Research, The days when a designer worked alone have been traded in for an interactive world in which designers often work hand-in-hand with developers. "Microsoft is trying to address what it believes is a legitimate and longstanding problem in the design market."
Microsoft created an equivalent tool for their OS devision? If a program can turn crappy art into a thing of beauty, can't the same thing be done to the code in Windows xxx itself?
Disclaimer: I am no full-time kernel coder at all though I did Software Engineering as my 1st degree. The submission below is a reflection of opinions I have gathered from slashdotters and other online communities in the a 8 years I have been active on the internet.
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I submit that the longstanding problem in the design market is the "flawed design" on which all versions of Windows are based. This should be M$'s priority. Now anyone who disputes that can go and hang!
Yes, he seems to think software products like Exchange or Outlook are trivial. Personally I don't think so. But that's just me.
All the applications you mentioned are clearly non-trivial...
No shit, sherlock.whereas exchange/outlook seems to be nothing more than a few entries in a database...
Are you fucking kidding me? Are you? Or are you just retarded? "a few entries in a database"? WTF?
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
They're. I cannot even read the rest of your comment because of that error, think about that next time you write a rant.