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

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:

> Wow, what a crappy interface...

Yeah, they really hit "peak oil" with UI cleanliness (not necessarily
attractive, but usable) with NT4's widget kit.

What in the world is the deal with juggling all the widgets around at
the top of the window?  Sometimes the menu bar is the top thing;
sometimes it isn't.  Haven't MS learned anything about muscle-memory or
the basics of how people spatially organize and remember?

The minimize/maximize/close widgets in the corner of the window blend in
such as to almost be invisible.  Why?  And the close widget is twice as
big as the rest!  Closing is destructive--why make that thing easier to
hit?  I already accidentally close rather than maximize every now and
again (and far more often close the wrong window when I have a maximized
child inside an MDI container because the two close buttons are about 2
pixels apart).

At least the black accents are better than that fugly blue crap in XP.

The menubar and toolbar are integrated.  Again: MUSCLE MEMORY.  Knowing
I can hit the left side of the window and be about 20 pixels away from
opening an existing document or 2 pixels away from opening a new
document adds a few seconds of productivity to my day.

Ooh, and an in IE, the tab bar is -above- the menubar/toolbar.  -That's-
a usability nightmare waiting to happen.  I wonder how many people are
going to accidentally print the visible page rather than switch tabs.

It's like they jumbled crap around -just- to make it different, rather
than applying any sense of logic to it.



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