* <<G1P.0093>> Win 10
My wife bought a new PC today, and it came with Windows 10 installed.
I played with it a bit since I don't have too much contact with
Windows anymore, and I wanted to see what was new.
Y'know, some people got bent out of shape when Matias Duarte said
that Win 10 was
"[[
https://twitter.com/matiasduarte/status/661255019082088448][basical
ly XP with a flat design skin]]", but he was right. I actually
appreciate Microsoft's attempts to do something new with their Metro
UI — it's a shame Windows users have been so hostile towards it —
but the fact is that within two minutes of poking around Windows 10,
there you are, looking at the same ugly Common Controls interfaces
people have been suffering for decades. Come on, Microsoft. Go look
around DeviantArt or something. You've had Visual Styles since 2001
and you still haven't figured out how to use them to make the legacy
stuff look good? Lots of young people with too much time on their
hands have made better attempts. And ...the icons. FFS. Stop hiring
those designers. Just stop. You've got this dead-flat Metro window
manager and Start-screen/bar/menu, then this flat~ish~ Visual Style
on all the system utilities and legacy apps, and then these corny
icons all over the place. What a mess.
I know that the X desktop is a visual clusterfuck — we've all had
those days where we're staring at a screen full of windows and every
single one has been programmed with a different widget toolkit —
but that's because it's a free-for-all over here. You're Microsoft.
You ~own~ Windows. Your resources are ~vast~. Is it really beyond
your capability to, I dunno, design a new file manager in Metro and
stop farting around with File Explorer? Or reimplement the Control
Panel entirely in Metro and not have it launch a bunch of legacy
dialogs? Unify that shit. Is it 2016, or is it 2001? Is this a
workstation or a mobile device?
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