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Microsoft Bob
- mchahn 10y agoOne of the first things I looked up in XP was how to turn the dog off in search.
- nikolay 10y agoIt was cool. Not sure why it was ridiculed so much. Microsoft hatred by default, I guess.
- Retra 10y agoIt was ridiculed because it wasn't cool. Microsoft made lots of things that people wanted to use. Nobody wants to spend $100 on some software without some clear benefit from it, and almost nobody who knows what their software needs are needs a product like this. That confines this product to the aisle of "things you would never buy for yourself." It's a classic UI dilemma: how do you simplify an interface without removing the functionality that makes the product powerful? However you'd answer that, what you don't do is bury that functionality behind a bunch of obscure analogies that have nothing to do with how that functionality works. The presence of a couch on that screen does nothing to help the user do anything that they need a computer to do, for example.
- sliekasbekelniu 10y agoIt reminds me Silicon Valley (S03E09) when they introduced "Pipy (or Piedpy?)" to help the user through their UI which user is too dumb to use..
- nikolay 10y agoEverybody makes mistakes - Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. - only Microsoft is ridiculed.