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It seems to me that Microsoft committed a faux-pas when it tried to revamp the user interface. The huge installed base of WinXP-Win7 style UI is an asset, not a

It seems to me that Microsoft committed a faux-pas when it tried to revamp the user interface. The huge installed base of WinXP-Win7 style UI is an asset, not a liability. People have memorized how to use it; they don't want to throw away all that effort. Notice how Apple has resisted drastically revamping their own desktop/laptop UI. It's not a touch/tablet UI, and it shouldn't try to be, as long as we continue to use keyboards and mouse/trackpads to work with it.

bad_user 12y ago
And I'm not seeing us give up traditional keyboards at least, or mice or trackpads for that matter, trackpads which can also be multi-touch, because they are very efficient for what they do ... writing text + pointing at things without your hand blocking your vision, which is tied to the other advantage of the traditional "PC", which is the ability to use big-ass monitors. I remember the craze of tablets 2 years ago, they were supposed to be the death of PCs. Now sales are declining and many tables turned out to be dust-gathering paper holders, because compared to phones, you can't carry them in your pocket. For Microsoft to try its hand at a laptop/tablet hybrid was the worst mistake ever; instead of making Windows the best PC OS available, they broke it even further than it was. And it's 2014 and that Command Prompt is still retarded, with millions of software developers suffering because of it, with many of them not even realizing it.
- bratsche 12y ago
  It sounds like they may at least be trying to work on the command prompt: http://withinrafael.com/new-experimental-console-features-in-windows-threshold/ http://withinrafael.com/new-experimental-console-features-in...
  - bad_user 12y ago
    Well, that's actually good to hear. A redesigned command prompt would make me reconsider Windows faster than flashy things that interfere with my ADHD :-)

bad_user 12y ago

And I'm not seeing us give up traditional keyboards at least, or mice or trackpads for that matter, trackpads which can also be multi-touch, because they are very efficient for what they do ... writing text + pointing at things without your hand blocking your vision, which is tied to the other advantage of the traditional "PC", which is the ability to use big-ass monitors. I remember the craze of tablets 2 years ago, they were supposed to be the death of PCs. Now sales are declining and many tables turned out to be dust-gathering paper holders, because compared to phones, you can't carry them in your pocket. For Microsoft to try its hand at a laptop/tablet hybrid was the worst mistake ever; instead of making Windows the best PC OS available, they broke it even further than it was. And it's 2014 and that Command Prompt is still retarded, with millions of software developers suffering because of it, with many of them not even realizing it.

bratsche 12y ago
It sounds like they may at least be trying to work on the command prompt: http://withinrafael.com/new-experimental-console-features-in-windows-threshold/ http://withinrafael.com/new-experimental-console-features-in...
- bad_user 12y ago
  Well, that's actually good to hear. A redesigned command prompt would make me reconsider Windows faster than flashy things that interfere with my ADHD :-)