Microsoft's ugly GUI
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/longhorn4015
blech! For god's sake, they should hire an UI designer! MS will be MS, I guess, but just look at that Calculator...
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That seems to be a very old
That seems to be a very old build. There's good points and bad points about the most recent UI for Vista I saw. On a UI related note there's a very good Windows Media interview with Jenny Lam over at Channel9 going over her process for creating the Vista UI. Good insights and a very intelligent perspective
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=161254
afterglow.ie - Icons, interfaces, illustration
Thats funny. I worked with
Thats funny. I had the pleasure to work with Jenny a little when I was at MS. She's very very good. You can knock MS all you want but they have insanely talented people.
- Jeff Yamada
www.suborior.com
LOL, just sent Jenny this
LOL, just sent Jenny this link...I don't think she was worried:)
- Jeff Yamada
www.suborior.com
I enjoyed the portion where
I enjoyed the portion where she explained the reasoning behind the circular start button. People don't hear the justifications behind design directions often enough.
afterglow.ie - Icons, interfaces, illustration
Indeed
That's an old build, looks just like XP with an (even uglier) theme applied. Newer builds are actually pretty nice looking—for Windows. ;p
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True
Although Vista is incorporating some eye candy in their new gui, I feel there is something very important missing.... Thought.
To be fair though, Vista wont totally suck with this gui, I just hope that it is a bit more secure and has some worthy features that make the long overdue update to the windows family and gives Windows users a more enjoyable experience to what they have had to put up with in the past.
...or they could switch?
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or just change your shell
http://emergedesktop.org/
i'm so used to this now that I find myself floundering about when i using the normal windows shell.
highly configurable.
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