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Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers
Grooves writes "Microsoft has shipped a 'Vista Industrial Design Toolkit' to PC manufacturers, meant to
encourage them to design computers that are more visually appealing. From the article: 'From color palettes to suggestions about how the power and reset buttons should appear, the kit basically describes Microsoft's vision of what a Vista PC should look like. The look features accelerated curves and purposeful contrast, among other qualities.' The report goes on to say that Microsoft wants 'PCs to be objects of pure desire.' Sound familiar? It's hard to see budget-conscious OEMs stepping up to this."
We want you to look more like a Mac.
Unless encased in Jessica Abla, it will never be an object of desire.
After all, that's where everybody keeps their porn.
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"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." - Bill Gates.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Sounds like Microsoft should try getting Apple to ship Macs with Windows.
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Best synopsys of this entire issue.
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Well, if they're concentrating on this now then Vista *MUST* be free of all security holes, instabilities, and bugs. Right?
Right?
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
Well they sell me boxes of instant grits to go with that Natalie Portman-shaped computer?
Where were you when the voynix came?
You're right.
In the Dell Corprate HQ.... "Mike, we want you to make Dells look pretty so people won't notice Vista as much"
"Fuck off, Ballmer"
unstability????
;)
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Introduction: How to Steal Back the Market from Apple - i
Getting Smart: Our new user interface needs some magic and copies Aqua -1
Making Titanium-looking cases from inexpensive aluminum -2
Preventing dual-boot -3
Wacky driver troubleshooting -4
Thwarting competing anti-virus makers-5
Understanding why we have so many versions of the same thing, and how to sell it -6
Learning how to shave like Steve Jobs -7
Appendix A: Stock options manual for new employees
Appendix B: Using your wife's PR company to kill everyone's love for you
Appendix C: Why Longhorn isn't a cheese
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Put nipples on the reset and power button. If you're going to reboot the POS everyday, why not get a little titty with it?
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...meant to encourage them to design computers that are more visually appealing.
It's a lot like the toolkit they shipped to DC lobbyists encouraging the govt to go easy a few years ago. No wait, that was cash....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
A number of years ago there was a brief trend of clothing that had been shot full of holes. People were selling jeans, t-shirts, jackets, etc, that had been shot with automatic rifles and such. Manufacturers of Windows PCs should try to bring that idea back. Aside from being an cheap and easy way to make a generic case look cool, it will save the buyer's valuable time (and ammunication.)
--- What?
but I imagined pile of them sitting in a dumpster covered in penguin shit
Porn sites lead to spyware.
I see your point.
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do stock certificates count?
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
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In the Dell Corprate HQ.... "Mike, we want you to make Dells look pretty so people won't notice Vista as much"
"Fuck off, Ballmer""
It'd be pretty funny if Dell started producing chair shaped Vista machines.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
I believe you mean "Lil' Ballmers"
...that nobody's going to buy it because of the operating system.
This just strikes me as too little too late, trying to make the PC visually appealing (as Apple did YEARS ago) because the fact is no-one cares about what OS is running any more, they just want it to all look good, on-screen and off.
Or is it just that Vista is so filled with eye-candy that they need something equally as over-bearing sitting beside the user so they take their eyes off the screen once in a while?
Will program for karma.
1. Apple is not interested in profit or marketshare (I'm sure their shareholders and board agree with that statement)
2. Apple users are superior to Windows / Intel users (Even when the Apple user boots with bootcamp to XP?)
3. Windows / Intel users are slobs (I suppose bootcamp users are slobs with style)
4. Apple systems are "lovingly crafted" (I can feel the love)
5. Apple knows their users and respects them (They know their users are dirty pirates, so they lovingly protect them with DRM) Let me know if I'm off...
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
Joe Sixpack has no place in this discussion. Joe Sixpack doesn't even have any business using a cellphone, let alone a holy computer like a Mac.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Me, I love the English language. I don't have anything against the French you know, but their language just isn't as developed. I dunno, English just has that.... je ne sais quoi.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Even if they get top-of-the-line architects to perfect the exterior, the software is still designed by Frank Gehry.