When Windows 10's underlying data harvesting infrastructure has fundamentally broken users' trust in Microsoft and Windows 10, why bother with trying to make Windows 10 look prettier?
Exactly! All the lipstick in the world will never convince me to install that "OS" on any computer I ever own or manage, at home or at work.
Programmers can't seem to grasp the fact that a design can reach a pinnacle and anywhere else you go is down hill. Do we keep getting new designs for hammers or pliers every year? No pliers from the 1800s look the same as they do today.
Exactly. My computer is a tool that works well. Change for change's sake doesn't help me use it, it imposees a neverending burden of learning curve as I am forced to re-learn how to use the tool over and over again. At least I used to be before I switched to Linux years ago now, where I have the freedom and choice to keep things that work looking and acting the way they do.
The author says "a change is always exciting." Really? How about when a hospital is running life-saving applications on Windows and the latest forced upgrade introduces an "exciting change" and now the nurse can't figure out how to launch her application?
Computing used to be more fun because there was more variety in the computers out there. Each one had its own personality, even if many were based on the same chips (6502/Z80/Motorola chips, etc). Computing on the PC platform used to be more fun because with DOS, you had control of your own computer, and because DOS involved the command line, which made everything more interesting and fun. Early versions of Windows were basically DOS programs that ran on top of DOS. Windows/PC computing became less fun when Windows 95 came out. I remember this was the first time I saw an operating system start doing all kinds of crazy stuff "for me" - often in the background.. and without telling me what it was doing. Today, Windows has a user interface, and a reverse-facing Microsoft interface that as busy doing all kinds of crazy things with other people's hardware and internet connections. Computing on PCs became fun again when Linux became available - especially as it progressed and became more usable and reliable. Today, I love running Linux at home and we are going to start running it at work too, now that Microsoft has made their operating systems completely onerous.
One more trend that is making computing less fun today - the trend toward web apps and "cloud"-based apps. Developers are abandoning good old-fashioned software that runs natively on a desktop or other computer. But those are the best applications in my opinion.
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When Windows 10's underlying data harvesting infrastructure has fundamentally broken users' trust in Microsoft and Windows 10, why bother with trying to make Windows 10 look prettier?
Exactly! All the lipstick in the world will never convince me to install that "OS" on any computer I ever own or manage, at home or at work.
Programmers can't seem to grasp the fact that a design can reach a pinnacle and anywhere else you go is down hill. Do we keep getting new designs for hammers or pliers every year? No pliers from the 1800s look the same as they do today.
Exactly. My computer is a tool that works well. Change for change's sake doesn't help me use it, it imposees a neverending burden of learning curve as I am forced to re-learn how to use the tool over and over again. At least I used to be before I switched to Linux years ago now, where I have the freedom and choice to keep things that work looking and acting the way they do.
I still us XP for my accounting software.. so I should be good for another 10 or 12 years...
Same here. Why upgrade?
The author says "a change is always exciting." Really? How about when a hospital is running life-saving applications on Windows and the latest forced upgrade introduces an "exciting change" and now the nurse can't figure out how to launch her application?
Computing used to be more fun because there was more variety in the computers out there. Each one had its own personality, even if many were based on the same chips (6502/Z80/Motorola chips, etc). Computing on the PC platform used to be more fun because with DOS, you had control of your own computer, and because DOS involved the command line, which made everything more interesting and fun. Early versions of Windows were basically DOS programs that ran on top of DOS. Windows/PC computing became less fun when Windows 95 came out. I remember this was the first time I saw an operating system start doing all kinds of crazy stuff "for me" - often in the background.. and without telling me what it was doing. Today, Windows has a user interface, and a reverse-facing Microsoft interface that as busy doing all kinds of crazy things with other people's hardware and internet connections. Computing on PCs became fun again when Linux became available - especially as it progressed and became more usable and reliable. Today, I love running Linux at home and we are going to start running it at work too, now that Microsoft has made their operating systems completely onerous. One more trend that is making computing less fun today - the trend toward web apps and "cloud"-based apps. Developers are abandoning good old-fashioned software that runs natively on a desktop or other computer. But those are the best applications in my opinion.