MS GUI redesign mania
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I don't understand why MS redesign/re-architecture their products GUI all the time (this includes new MSDN and MS office 2007 too - very inconvenient GUIs in my opinion). We are becoming use to some design/architecture but in the subsequent version MS right away change it to some MS sick minded programmers mind/style. Hey, this attitude should be stopped - what about just improving :suss:?
I was thinking about this sort of thing just last night on my Vista box, wondering why they'd bother to put out a new OS that's really little more than eye candy (and security annoyances). I think in terms of Windows that they're trying to recreate the magical moment of Windows 95, when people stood in line all night long to get a copy. There hasn't been that kind of excitement about Windows ever since. Given that 95 was a major visual overhaul, I suspect they think that eye candy is what created the excitement, and they've been on that path ever since. In fact, beyond the visuals, there was greatly enhanced functionality in 95 compared to Windows 3.1, even in the UI. I used to tell people, "Whatever you want to do, just click the right mouse button." We take it for granted now, but that was in fact a signficant improvement. And of course, there's a long list of other improvements in 95 that were actually useful instead of merely pretty. And people stood in line. Maybe "it's all been done" and Windows / Office doesn't really have much room left to grow. Or maybe people are obsessed with eye candy because they think it was the reason for the Windows 95 phenom. Either way, compare the "excitement" over Office 2007 and / or Vista to days gone by and it's clear that MS understands their customers less and less with each new release.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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