Monday, May 19, 2003 |
15:32 - Oh yeah, that's useful
ftp://ftp.extremetech.com/pub/extremetech/news/winhec/WaveWindows.MOV
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Gee, look. It's Microsoft's insightful, user-experience-enhancing answer to OS X, Quartz, and the Genie Effect. 3.8MB QuickTime movie, and no, don't adjust your set.
From AtAT:
One important distinction: once again, Microsoft reveals a certain cluelessness about form following function. The Genie Effect doesn't just look nifty; it gives the user valuable visual feedback about where a window goes when it's minimized. In stark contrast, as far as we can make out from this short video clip, Microsoft's flapping windows don't do anything except drive the sale of hardware upgrades.
Does any part of Microsoft's UI design team not operate on the principle of "Do whatever Apple did, only make it flashier and ignore the reason why Apple did it," like some kind of benighted technological Cargo Cult?
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