On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian (et al), I have also taken a lot of steps recently to restore > old colours and behaviour to recent Microsoft product releases. I don't > normally do that. We all expect complaints when new versions of products > are released, but in my experience the noise quickly drops away and people > just accept the changes and run with them. However, the amount of stubborn > resistance recently has been quite startling. Why is this happening? > > Microsoft is dragging us all along with it on some sort of global style > change where there is less chrome, fewer borders, less saturated colour, > fewer lines, etc. Now I can honestly understand this because the eye and > brain work better with less clutter, but it all seems to have gone too far > (remember the first preview of Visual Studio 2012 that looked like a > charcoal etching?). Is there some department or research within Microsoft > that is driving this trend? Do they explain their reasoning? Where did they > recruit the drugged gibbons they put through the usability testing? >
One suspects that they are using an animal that has monochrome vision. A dog? > > And then there's Windows 8 ... > > I'm going to sleep thru that and wait on 8.1 - after all, it is a .0 product... -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
