Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?

An anonymous reader writes "Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? In this video, ZDNet takes to Sydney's streets to find out what people think of what they think is a Windows 7 demonstration. The results are surprising." Or maybe they're not surprising at all.

Comments

Re:eye candy

[ThePhilips]

What GP said is pretty much the rules of UI design devised many years ago by Microsoft and IBM. It's just the both never followed their own UI design rules. Actually M$ has quite strict internal UI design rules - yet they are to accommodate disabled, not to improve overall usability.

Apple generally follows style and common sense. Unlike M$/etc who are driven by business logic of max profit, Apple folks always try to make computer they would want to own themselves. That's why they experiment more - and invent more - than the rest of industry.

In that sense KDE4 is much closer to Mac OS X (while e.g. GNOME is closer to M$Windows). KDE folks develop (on their spare time) system which they themselves use on daily basis. There are no politics nor business pressure. That's why they are slow - but generally end result is much better than rest of the crop.

Re:not surprising

[Arterion]

That's what she said.