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1.13.2002 Why do I feel like I know what Joel Spolsky is talking about... This is pretty cool - shuttle spacewalker mini pc... Some thing where better in the old days - like Borlands old EULA's. Check this one out from borlands old turbo c++ (damn, I sure miss my good old turbo pascal 4/5/6 - my first pc-programming experience expect the gw-basic stuff...) A week with windows XP I've had my computer with windows XP in a week now and I must say that is a fine improvement, and I'm very satisfied. But one thing came in mind today - one difference between apple and microsoft; the completeness of the user-friendlyness. At first glance windows XP seems really nice, friendly - some might even say pretty. But when you go just a little bit deeper, things start to be good old windows-anti-user-friendlyness. The new control-panel as an example. You're kindly asked "What do you want to do?", you answer "Performance and Maintenance", windows ask "Pick a task", you pick "Rearrange items on your hard disk to make programs run faster". This is really great so far. But then what happends? Good old disk defragmenter pops up (that basicly hasn't changed since msdos 6) without any further help. So far everything have been in a friendly asking manner, with windows xp interface, warm colors etc. But suddenly, you're lost (if you're an average user) - old dark colors, lots of buttons that aren't self-explaning. How hard would it be simply to start the disk-analyzer right away, telling the user what is happening, adjust the interface, etc...? Apparently very hard :/ First impression that was - more to come :-) |
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