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Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"
jbrodkin writes "Google created Chrome OS because Windows is 'torturing users,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin says. Only about 20% of Google employees use Windows, with the rest on Mac and Linux, and Brin hopes that by next year nearly all Googlers will be using Chromebooks. 'With Microsoft, and other operating system vendors, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users,' Brin told reporters at Google I/O. 'It's torturing everyone in this room. It's a flawed model fundamentally. Chromebooks are a new model that doesn't put the burden of managing the computer on yourself.' Google claims 75% of business users could be moved from Windows computers to Chrome laptops."
By that logic OS2 is as good as Linux, Windows, or OS X.
Windows 95 isn't easier to use, at least compared to OS X and Windows 7. But it is still at least a few years ahead of the best the Linux community can put out. But in fairness to them, they aren't aiming to make a desktop operating system just "anyone" can get up and use. They want to keep it as elitist and technically exclusive as possible. "READ THE MAN PAGE"
Then you must be doing it wrong. I have all my most used programs on the Taskbar, and when I need to open a program, I press the windows key, type a simple keyword and hit enter and I'm ready to roll.
I just love the 1980s nostalgia easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden in Windows 7. Like having to remember program names and type them in order to start them. It brings back such fond memories of DOS and pre-GUI Unix.
Alternatively maybe they've replaced all the old programmers who remember what a pain in the ass that was with new ones who think 'wow, dude, I could add an option to, you know, type the name of a program to start it! Then you wouldn't have to hunt through this huge list of crap to find it because we screwed with the menus to make finding programs easier!'