Clash of the User Interfaces: XP vs Vista
March 2, 2007 at 3:28 pmI have always said that Windows Vista has a far worse user interface than XP has - everything there is bunched up, the sidebar with linux-like widgets doesn’t provide and really useful functions and on top of that isn’t customizable, the aero GUI is too flashy and nobody really needs the 3d flip-through taskswitcher, especially when you can’t even see the windows you are switching through because it looks like a shuffled deck of cards.
And now there is an independent study about Vistas user interface from Pfeiffer Consulting, a french market research institute. And of course the study showed that you need much less clicks in XP for stuff to do than in Vista.
I don’t know why Microsoft doesn’t get it that a flashy interface isn’t exactly the same as a resourceful and efficient interface. The first may get the product some new customers because it does look rather with all the eye candy, but the latter is what binds the consumers to the product - that you can do your work efficient and without the interface always getting in your way.
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well well, i am still wondering for what they need all this performance, und linux XGL works well with an geforce2.
on the other hand look at http://derstandard.at/?id=2745455
or you get a look at it on: http://www.dailymotion.com/mandriva/video/xb7sz_mandriva-linux-2007-3d-desktop
but there is still the question, how needs all this?
and WTF, count the clicks you need to do things…. no way!!!
Comment by paule — March 2, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
In the sense of evolution, MS managed it to extract Windows * from the process of selection over the years. Nevertheless, mutation and recombination is proceeding undamped. One need not be a Darwin to know that this must lead to disability.
Are you a born cripple, or a cripple by accident?
[Sourthpark]
Concerning Vista: I don’t know…
Comment by Stefan Huber — March 8, 2007 @ 10:00 am