Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by thrower123 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @04:55AM (#21362592)

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.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by dangus on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:26AM (#21362701)

You’d have a great point if you only mentioned VB6 and left out AIM and that word processor that spat out binary files.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by thrower123 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:28AM (#21362706)

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.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by userbinator on Saturday October 26, 2019 @07:15PM (#21366887)

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.

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Re:Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003) by Terretta on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:07PM (#21366190)

Remember Trillian, Adium, or BeejiveIM? Seamless presence on IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk...

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