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"The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog bo
by downer 19y ago
"The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickered when you did things, they looked at how the UI flowed"
That's a crack-up. Please, regale us with more tales of the incredible quality of Microsoft products of the 90's.
- run4yourlives 19y agoThey are used by 90% of the marketplace afterall.
- Tichy 19y agoI think deserve some credit for getting a hold on the hardware diversity mess. A problem that Apple never had to solve.
- downer 19y agoThey didn't customize their applications for different types of hardware, and drivers are made by the manufacturer, so this is a non-point. Windows et al. were ugly, buggy and crashing due to software problems, not hardware.
- mojuba 19y agothey looked at how the UI flowed UI may flow well, except it may flow in a wrong direction. In 90's there were pieces of software that were close to the definition of "crappy" in terms of bugs, UI flow and even screen flickering, yet they delivered such a value that users forgave their mistakes. First that comes to mind is Macromedia Dreamweaver, also Cakewalk Pro Audio.