Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by dangus on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:32AM
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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by thrower123 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @04:55AM
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This, but unironically.
We haven't made a great deal of progress moving forward, actually. Twenty years of churn and bloating system requirements.
Give me Word 2003, Visual Studio 6, and AIM Messenger again and I don't think I'd be much disappointed compared to what I'm running today.
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by dangus on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:26AM
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You’d have a great point if you only mentioned VB6 and left out AIM and that word processor that spat out binary files.
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by thrower123 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:28AM
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I still have a portable version of Word 2003 on a flash stick, because it still works better.
The most incomprehensible thing to me is how much worse all the IM software I have to use today is.
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by userbinator on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:15PM
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I think IM has such a low bar to entry (how hard is it to create a TCP connection and send and recieve stuff?) that encourages lots of churn and competing protocols.
Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
by Terretta on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:07PM
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Remember Trillian, Adium, or BeejiveIM? Seamless presence on IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk...
If you thought that was bad... look at the "app-ombinations" which pass for productivity software today. Wide expanses of useless whitespace, low-contrast ultra-thin fonts, monochrome hieroglyphic icons everywhere, patronising "cute" and unhelpful messages, the ridiculous levels of bloat, and of course the pervasive spyware --- or "telemetry".