6th November 2007, 12:07 AM
I know, it's weird. They apparently did this to make it more "user friendly", but it really isn't. Also, the Program Files directory is a pretty big waste of time isn't it? Well of COURSE they are program files! What ELSE would I put in a ROOT DIRECTORY FOLDER? Just get rid of the redundant thing and stick it on the root. If they do anything, they should just catagorize based on what sort of program it is. What ever happened to installing things to \GAMES\ ?
As for that "side bar", aside from ripping off a useless "feature" from the Mac OS, it really adds to MS's overabundance of "ways to click on shortcuts". They had the desktop and folders on the desktop. Really, that's all I needed. They added the "Programs" menu under Start which was pretty redundant already, and to THAT they added the "toolbars" for the taskbar. After the aborted attempt that was "active desktop" (the worthless thing that opened the majority of IE's security vulnerabilities), MS moved onto this "side bar" nonsense. Yeesh, how immediate do you need your shortcuts anyway?
I say they should really just start cutting back on this thing. The 360 interface is the sort of simplistic "toning down" I'm talking about. Make it mouse driven, full keyboard support, slap a Console in there, and you have what I'd call an ideal, simplistic, user friendly, and just as powerful user interface.
As for that "side bar", aside from ripping off a useless "feature" from the Mac OS, it really adds to MS's overabundance of "ways to click on shortcuts". They had the desktop and folders on the desktop. Really, that's all I needed. They added the "Programs" menu under Start which was pretty redundant already, and to THAT they added the "toolbars" for the taskbar. After the aborted attempt that was "active desktop" (the worthless thing that opened the majority of IE's security vulnerabilities), MS moved onto this "side bar" nonsense. Yeesh, how immediate do you need your shortcuts anyway?
I say they should really just start cutting back on this thing. The 360 interface is the sort of simplistic "toning down" I'm talking about. Make it mouse driven, full keyboard support, slap a Console in there, and you have what I'd call an ideal, simplistic, user friendly, and just as powerful user interface.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)