[geeks] concerning MS Windows Vista screen shots now available...

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:19:26AM -0400, David L Kindred (Dave) wrote:
>>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> writes:
>
>     Bill> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:24:45PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo
>     Bill> 717-201-3366 wrote:
>
>     >> Wow, what a crappy interface...
>
>     Bill> Anything's better than the default XP "Playskool My First
>     Bill> Windowing Operating System" look.  I switch all my windows
>     Bill> boxes to the "Windows Classic" scheme, classic start menu,
>     Bill> small icons in start menu, no grouping in taskbar, etc.
>
> It's funny (or maybe sad), but I've come to like the XP interface.  I
> find that if I don't pretty much run the MS apps the way the users
> here are I can't support them well, so I left XP mostly alone.  Now
> that I've been using it a while, I find I do like it better than it's
> predecessors.
>
> What I don't like, and turn off right away, is the adaptive menu (or
> whatever the f*** they call it) stuff in Office 2003.  It sounds like
> the new Vista interface is taking that idea to the extreme.  I want
> the same menu items to be in the same place every time.  I want the
> windows to stay where I put them.  And so on.
>
> On a related note, an earlier post bitched about MS changing things
> just to change them, I'm afraid Sun and HP do the same thing every
> time a new version of SunOS/Solaris and HP-UX come out, so that one
> isn't just a Microsoft issue.

True enough, but I can trivially switch my window manager to the one I
want to use, after a bit of compiling, on just about any unix variant
out there.  Every release of Windows takes more and more work to get it
to be something sane.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org