[MaddogK]

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

The “I’m a MAC and I’m a PC” videos are wrong. PC is the new Apple. Everything in Windows 7 is a sad attempt to emulate and copy the Apples.

But if I wanted an Apple, I’d buy an Apple. I’m not a 13 year old girl; I want efficiency, cleanliness and professionalism, not fluff and rainbows. I want my work to stand out, and my tools and my desk to fade away, and not the other way around.

Ironically, efficiency and professionalism was what Apples were famous for, before they became Pop and fluffy. Yet I always chose Windows because of its flexibility. I know what kind of computer I need, not Apple.

Well, not anymore. Microsoft knows what I need now, and I need to be Apple. Can I have my perfectly fine expanding Start programs menu? No, that’s too orange and not enough Apple.

The Windows 95 theme wasn’t reached by accident or experiment, but by trial and error. It was a fruit of science, labor and utility. It has perfect contrast: black on light gray, white on dark blue, frames between windows, configuration background gray, work space background white, zero clutter, maximum cleanliness.

Screw that, let’s make everything transparent and shadowy! That’ll help! That’s way more Apple! And make the taskbar bigger too, like Apple’s! And remove the text, leave just icons, like Apple, because our customers don’t work and multitask, they just stare at pretty icons like 13 year old girls! Look, unicorns!

****! Windows 7 is ****!

Even with everything thematic and all special effects turned off, which helps, the Start menu is still the new tiny cluster****, and Windows Explorer is still full of distractions. The optimum Win95 theme can be more or less recovered, but the programs are gone.

The new generation of Microsoft is fail; they are marketing and not professionally oriented. I just cannot see why one must destroy optimality in order to impress the visually impressible or, excuse me, blind. Certainly fat is supposed to go above the muscle or bone layer, the cutting of which should not affect the underlayers. Yet Microsoft has lost the bone.

Congratulations; for the first time ever I am looking positively and seriously at Linux. Go Linux, go! The User knows best; configurability for the win!

Prolly shouldn't knock MS around here, you might get a response like this

I find it amazing how people are anti-microsoft - yet run the software anyway. Windows is a heck of a lot more complex a OS "program" (although its many of them working together) than something like Silent Hunter. The Millions of lines of code that go into an OS compared to those of a game - due to their purpose - are alot more apt to create bugs. Yet, companies like M$ are alot more responsive to problems than say, Ubisoft. *This is not slamming the devs, just that the business models operate very differently and thus the companies have different focuses.*

MS constantly develops patches, workarounds and combined service packs to resolve issues - for years after a product launches. Game companies? Normally a year if your lucky.

But if people get a chance to jump on MS - they do.

At least you got

A lot of times the issue isn't the OS - its those who use it.

Good luck with your win7 issues, win98 lives on my dev PC, XPsp2 on my gamer PC. One day I may finalize my installation of SUSE on my Mac, but I haven't been that desperate (or drunk) in years.