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It's not that bad yet. During the worst days of Microsoft, there was no products that wasn't bad or weren't actively being made worse: Vista, Office with the ri
by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
It's not that bad yet. During the worst days of Microsoft, there was no products that wasn't bad or weren't actively being made worse: Vista, Office with the ribbon toolbar, Silverlight, internet explorer.
Today you might argue that Google is doing that to Chrome (3rd party cookies), YouTube, Search (AMP) but we don't actively hate using Google products yet.
Besides, I feel Google cloud/workplace people seem to have a good product vision.
- helmholtz 5y agoOffice with Ribbon was clearly the right decision. I absolutely despised the menu hell that preceeded it (minus the fact that hotkeys worked a lot better). The ribbon has since been adopted by non MS tools as well, and I'm happier for it. Also, Windows Phone 7 came out under Ballmer, and it was So. Much. Better. than either iOS or Android at the time. A keyboard that had proper autocorrection, an OS that could run blazing fast on absoulte rubbish specs and a cohesive design (that wasn't skeumorphic). Ballmer wasn't a god, but this idea that he had this anti-midas touch is clearly bunk.