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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Could they please retire modern Windows UI design?

Those contrasting color squares are not the zen those designers think. UI layout being different in paradigm for every application is not the productivity improvement they think. Using titlebars for something other than titles and control buttons is not optimization. Those buttons being some scratches on the screen barely visible is crap from any PoV I can imagine.

And somebody should explain to them that a good design for a billboard, a good design for a glossy magazine, a good design for a shop front, a good design for an office, a good design for a videogame, a good design for a movie and a good design for a workstation are all mutually incompatible in vast majority of cases.

And again about zen, simplicity, air and all that. I understand they think they are very smart and understanding of aesthetics. But zen would be having clean window borders and clearly visible control elements, for starters. And buttons not being just color squares. And in general solutions being subordinate to functional goals of the UI being usable. Industrial ergonomics are zen.

EDIT: I know it's offtopic, not interested - keep walking

[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

I remember a while back Microsoft did an market research thing and found that of their brands, "Xbox" had positive consumer feedback while many of their other product names weren't nearly as favorable.

So what did they do? Did they try to understand what Xbox did differently to leverage that strategy elsewhere? Did they promote the Xbox marketing team to give them a wider purview?

No. They just renamed Zune Music to Xbox Music and Games for Windows to Xbox for Windows. THAT'LL FIX IT!

[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

And then they tank the name X-Box

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 13 hours ago

"We need to recapture the Apple market share!"

"Got it boss, we'll make it stupid."

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

It just pains me to see, remember Chinese websites and software around 2007-2008?

Everybody (aware) looked at that with terror.

Now it's the same everywhere.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

"Get rid of those ugly strain reliefs on the plugs!"
"Uh, we don't make hardware."
"I don't care, get rid of them!"

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