• Nyciferi@kbin.melroy.org
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    6 days ago

    The thing is - we shouldn’t have had to do that. Maybe alternatively, but not primarily.

    Microsoft’s problem with Windows 8, was how they got a hair up their ass by being obsessed with mobile technology. Tablets and Phones specifically. That they decided in their ‘infinite wisdom’, to infect desktops with a theme and performance that honestly was more suited for mobile devices.

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      6 days ago

      It was a stupid and unnecessary decision, yeah. That didn’t make it a bad OS though. It was a step up from windows 7 in almost every way other than a dumb aesthetic choice that people became hyper focused on.

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        I still miss the windows 7 glass look. That was peak desktop layout. Everything you need, nothing you don’t.

        And then they threw all of that good design away for a relatively mid mobile showing.

        That didn’t make it a bad OS though

        Interface design is an incredibly important part of software development. The users weren’t wrong when they shunned windows 8, microsoft was wrong for shitting on 30 years of interface development.