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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
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Meh, no gradients, no transparency, no rounded corners, no customization of minimize, window/full screen, close, window shade buttons, heck, NO WINDOW SHADE button at all in spite of the fact that they've stolen (badly) everything that makes 10 better than 8 or 8.1 from Linux.
In 1990 we were looking at flat screens because that's all we had saying "Won't it be great when we can have real 3D buttons with shadows, 3D scroll bars, rounded corners, dare we DREAM of transparency? Well we had all that in Windows 7 and there Microsoft slams us back to 1990 again telling us how we should love it.
Even with the "improvements" Windows 3.1 had more customization, more sophistication to the GUI and we were all excited about 3D. Let's just all pass out the clay tablets because if Microsoft is in charge that's what we're all going to end up with.
Just to show you how far behind Windows is and how they've ineptly stolen from Linux, here's my Gnome (pronounced with a hard G) 2 desktop application selection screen from Ubuntu in 2008! See how it blows Windows 10 away in sophistication seven years before Windows tried unsuccessfully to steal the Gnome/Unity GUI elements?
Look at those beautiful full millions of colors 3D icons showing every program on the machine. It can be scrolled up or down--you're only seeing a partial list. You can filter the list. You can type part of the name and get a smaller and smaller list. You can just browse the list if you don't know what you're looking for. This whole GUI is about expanding possibilities and working YOUR way in a sophisticated and beautiful manner seven years before Microsoft brought you a crippled version.
Here I am writing a post to Subsim in 2008. Look at the sophistication of the GUI. The window decorations (buttons, banner colors, borders, etc) are all customizable. You can see that I moved the normal minimize, window/full screen and close window buttons to the top left and that they're circles color coded by function instead of the symbols Windows uses. You can see that the corners of the window are rounded and the bar has a gray gradient. And this window is customized so if you double click the bar on top the window rolls up into the bar opening the screen below. And you can see that the window sticks to the edges of the screen, even bending like Jello when you pull it away as I am doing here.
Now seven years later Windows has us in a monochrome prison, totally flat like a green monitor used to be, choices of dozens, not millions of colors, no transparency, no rounded corners, no roll-up windows. Linux looked better than Windows 10 in 2000. And they have progressed while Windows regresses into the DOS days in sophistication and ease of use.
No thanks. Windows 7 is as good as Microsoft got before their demise.
Windows 10 growth sluggish as Windows 7/8.x users stick with their OS
The truth does not bear out the Microsoft propoganda. Even forcing upgrades has not resulted in success. For all Microsoft's chest thumping, strongarm tactics and hubris, Windows XP still has half again more market share than Windows 10, which is the number 3 Windows operating system. I think it's over.