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>>> create a good user experience <<< >>> User interface is customer service for the computer <<< >>> centralized planning, in contrast with the old culture tha
by ktharavaad 17y ago
>>> create a good user experience <<<
>>> User interface is customer service for the computer <<<
>>> centralized planning, in contrast with the old culture that let Windows subgroups set their own agendas <<<
seems like to me that not only are they moving towards a more "mac-like" focus on user interface, easier-to-use software. They are also copying apple's approach to software/hardware design, which is centralized around steve jobs.
- Keyframe 17y agooh come on
- jnovek 17y agoNo kidding. How is delivering a good user experience and designing a product-appropriate development process Apple's property? Shouldn't everyone who writes software try to do those things?
- Raphael_Amiard 17y agoI think he was referring to the fact that they're trying to centralize more what everything is happening into the different sections in charge of developping windows and it's subsets.
- Maciek416 17y agoThe contrast here is being made between two development styles: A centralized, controlled, and focused production system at Apple, versus what Microsoft apparently had before Windows 7: A network of fiefdoms which fought each other over implementation and design details but nevertheless had to secure each others' approval for changes. This brought about stalemates and some truly bizarre outcomes. Here's the famous story about the Windows shutdown menu relating to this: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c... If Microsoft has overcome these [alleged] problems, it would represent a significant change in their development style.