You know what I love about the new UI stuff coming out of Redmond?
It keeps all the jarring conceptual randomness but swaddles it in the soothing pastels and low contrast tones of a suburban mental health clinic.
And, of course, there's the promise the Vista will take all that and trick it out with transparency and screen effects borrowed from Apple but witlessly deployed.
So what do you end up with? Thorazine!
A forced march into groggy mellowness and pleasant visuals sitting just on top of a swirling cauldron of madness and hair pulling disorientation.
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Originally posted by kim kap sol
So long.
You're original.
Originally posted by BigBlue
Man, this is good
The real punchline?
It was produced by MS marketing, as an internal teaching tool of what not to do anymore.
Seriously.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...2006/3/14/3187
It keeps all the jarring conceptual randomness but swaddles it in the soothing pastels and low contrast tones of a suburban mental health clinic.
And, of course, there's the promise the Vista will take all that and trick it out with transparency and screen effects borrowed from Apple but witlessly deployed.
So what do you end up with? Thorazine!
A forced march into groggy mellowness and pleasant visuals sitting just on top of a swirling cauldron of madness and hair pulling disorientation.
Originally posted by addabox
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Dude, you are SO my new sig.
Originally posted by Amorya
Wow... old school. Gotta love those System 7 color graphics!
And at the top are some whimsical parasites! Inspiration for Will Wright's Spore?