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Y'know Windows 10 has loads of great little improvements say on Windows 2000.. You only really notice them when u try to use an old machine running 2000 or XP o
by everyone 8y ago
Y'know Windows 10 has loads of great little improvements say on Windows 2000.. You only really notice them when u try to use an old machine running 2000 or XP or whatever and theyre not there..
Examples..
can cut/copy and paste files mutiples times and it will queue them up..
When copying files it shows progress + graphs the speed.
Right click on windows button to get list of loads of common management tools (that b4 u had to dig down to in various weird places)
Alt-tab shows little thumbnail of each program running.
thumbnails of image files and whatnot in explorer
loads of option in the explorer GUI for searching and displaying files
powershell
drag window to side to have it take up half the screen
etc. etc.
These are all great useful and non intrusive design ideas.
Thats good design. And I reckon they came about from more grassroots action, eg. customer feedback or boots on the ground engineers.
'Design concepts' like Metro are the kind of shit that marketing or upper management come up with as part of some dubious business or marketing scheme, and then are awkwardly and irritatingly foisted upon the engineers and users alike. That kind of BS is utterly regressive.
- wildrhythms 8y agoOh yes, I think Microsoft made incredible strides in the UI/desktop design front from 98 to XP and even on Windows 7 (2009). Windows Phone and Windows 8 introduced Metro to the world, and Microsoft seems to have plateaued there.
- everyone 8y agoThere are still nice little features like that in 10 from 8.1.. Thankfully the Metro stuff u can all be eliminated with some registry scripts, without affecting anything else, and u now have a nice OS. Just doing it every time I install Windows is a big annoyance.
- artificial 8y agoBesides the copy and paste and search improvements many of these features are present in Windows 7. Seems each Windows release is similar to a contract where the big print gives and the fine print takes away.