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Ray Ozzie Quit... What Took Him So Long?
GMGruman writes "The mainstream press acts surprised that Microsoft's chief software architect is resigning, but InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard explains through a review of Ozzie's efforts at Microsoft how the Redmond giant has consistently ignored and squandered the design savvy that Ozzie has tried to bring to the table. If you ever wondered why Microsoft's products like Windows and Office are so bloated and underwhelming, while Apple's are almost always wonderful experiences, this analysis will solve that mystery. And you too will wonder how Ozzie could have lasted so long at a company that doesn't believe in design."
...doesn't get viruses. Nice. What else do you prefer about itunes, other than it's price and the fact that you don't even need to buy things from Apple to fill up your local iTunes DB? Office is crap, and so are most Windows except for the dead XP. Don't make me say the Z word, or the K word, or the S word... (Zune, Kin, Slate). It's a troll to say MS products are not bloated hunks of shit that are force on you at work by ill-informed IT managers getting some freebies from Redmond. No, that can't be. ;)
Don't take me wrong. I can't stand the App Store closed bullshit, or the over-hyped iPhones, but for my $$ iTunes is a fair content catalog system that can be fed from places other than the iTunes store. So, don't play up MS and their proprietary crapware. It just looks foolish here in the real world.
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
Uh, because Microsoft abused their monopoly? Where have you been these last few decades?
Yeah. the testing I've done on it shows that Win7 runs nicely on decently old hardware - actually runs better than Vista on the same hardware - provided you turn off the Aero interface. Do you lose visual perks? Sure. But it runs just fine.
I get the feeling the poster who submitted this just happened to be a brainwashed Apple fanboi. And I echo your complaints about the shitty quality of iTunes, which slows any system it gets on to a crawl.
I started calling the apple fanboys: FUDbois. I find it a fitting term.
Denial. In this context, Office was just as much a part of the abusive monopoly as the OS was. The two are inextricable.
Good-bye
That's what your wife told me. And it is true. (see how it works?)
You're actually arguing that Windows and Office aren't bloated and underwhelming and that Apple's interfaces aren't vastly superior? Have you never compared a Windows smartphone to an iPhone?
Soo.... is the Software side of Microsoft's UX team called SUX? This would explain many things.
I for instance find every last Apple product incredibly tasteless and pretty much a joke, especially when it comes to getting value from my computing dollar. Windows is better by simply being mediocre, and Linux is awesome!
I'm sure I'm biased against Apple products though, because I'm a heterosexual.