Total crap. Android. has used high contrast icons for a long time. I have seen high contrast icon in themes for years. Apple is ripping the idea off as well.
Total crap. Android. has used high contrast icons for a long time. I have seen high contrast icon in themes for years. Apple is ripping the idea off as well.
I don't know why I still look at your crap blog
Android was actually a BB ripoff before Google switched to copying iOS.
Don't let the blog door hit you on the way out ...
Glad to see Apple moving back to moncrhome icons. All that color leads to a lot of visual clutter, ultimately making the interface more difficult to utilize. Color should be reserved for highlighting items of interest.
NeXTSTEP iconography rocked hard. Mac OS X is not quite there yet. iOS with its round rectangles is awesome too. But there was something about the gray-purplish background and NeXTSTEP icons that makes it look so cool.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Windows 95 "beveled gray buttons" look was inspired by NeXTSTEP. The elements are all there: embossed group boxes, inset fields, and raised buttons, all done in gray (as opposed to white like Mac OS of the era. Before NeXTSTEP, UIs didn't look like this. After NeXT, everyone from Amgia to Motif to Windows adopted the "beveled control look."
I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Windows 95 "beveled gray buttons" look was inspired by NeXTSTEP. The elements are all there: embossed group boxes, inset fields, and raised buttons, all done in gray (as opposed to white like Mac OS of the era. Before NeXTSTEP, UIs didn't look like this. After NeXT, everyone from Amgia to Motif to Windows adopted the "beveled control look."
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Office Ribbon interface is messed up. Everything in the wrong place. I was and still feel frustrated with it. If you don't use Office on daily basis you will never figure it out.
Agreed, I really liked Office 97. Basically against that standard, other than bigger row limits, and nicer PPT, Office has been downgrades since 1997. It's almost worth running an old XP virtual machine just to run old Office.
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Windows side has had stronger cgi program support for many many years so this wouldn't surprise me that much.
Maybe it's just me, but if you look at the graphic and say that Mac had the first icons, but Windows 1.0 had the first color icons, and follow the chart from there, it looks like the Mac icons copy Win icons. The icons that are arbitrarily called "cartoon" for Win XP look a lot to me like the "photorealistic" Mac OS X icons. What it calls Win "photorealistic" looks like super-photorealistic to me.
My first reaction to the Win 8 start menu graphics was that it looks like Palm/WebOS. I really don't see the similarity to iOS...
I'm not a hater but when it comes to computers Apple rules the effing roost.
Time and time again I have heard nothing but complaints from pc users. But when they see Apple in action they fall in love. That is from my perspective. Screw windows man.
My 2008 macbook unibody Al is going to be 3 years old this year and I have not had one damn problem with it. I have been left speechless by the power and reliability of this laptop.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it plays quake on quaklive like storm trooper on steroids. Booya!!!
I want the 27 inch imac but that beast is...Oh sh**!!!!
Maybe it's just me, but if you look at the graphic and say that Mac had the first icons, but Windows 1.0 had the first color icons, and follow the chart from there, it looks like the Mac icons copy Win icons. The icons that are arbitrarily called "cartoon" for Win XP look a lot to me like the "photorealistic" Mac OS X icons. What it calls Win "photorealistic" looks like super-photorealistic to me.
Microsoft must have a lot of papers scattered all over the floor, if their sideways folder icon is photorealistic. When I was a Vista beta tester, I put in a bug report for that icon, because it unrealistically defies gravity. Microsoft characteristically didn't listen.
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Perhaps you are not aware of Dreamworks? It's full of Microosft money, and all it does is copy Disney/Pixar ideas and make them worse, rushing them to market in an attempt to kill the original. No creativity, no art, just an effort to make money churning out cheap crap.
Antz: Bugs Life as rotoscoped actors rather than real animated characters
Shark Tale: Finding Nemo as rotoscoped actors rather than real animated characters
Madagascar: Ripped off the entirety of Disney's The Wild
Monsters vs Aliens: Monsters Inc + aliens
Shrek, Chicken Run: spoofs of existing movies
The only really original work comes from acquisitions of preexisting talent that Dreamworks eventually destroyed, like the Aardman animation people.
Curious that Jobs owned Pixar and 18% of Dreamworks is owned by Microsoft director Paul Allen, Microsoft even created an interactive joint venture with Dreamworks. The company also backed HD-DVD with Microsoft, as opposed to the Disney led BluRay
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I don't know why I still look at your crap blog
Total crap. Android. has used high contrast icons for a long time. I have seen high contrast icon in themes for years. Apple is ripping the idea off as well.
I don't know why I still look at your crap blog
Android was actually a BB ripoff before Google switched to copying iOS.
Don't let the blog door hit you on the way out ...
No. This is the Metro UI style. It's been around since the Zune all those years ago. They're just bringing it to Windows.
i might've believed that if microsoft hadn't had a history of copying apple's creations
NeXTSTEP iconography rocked hard. Mac OS X is not quite there yet. iOS with its round rectangles is awesome too. But there was something about the gray-purplish background and NeXTSTEP icons that makes it look so cool.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Windows 95 "beveled gray buttons" look was inspired by NeXTSTEP. The elements are all there: embossed group boxes, inset fields, and raised buttons, all done in gray (as opposed to white like Mac OS of the era. Before NeXTSTEP, UIs didn't look like this. After NeXT, everyone from Amgia to Motif to Windows adopted the "beveled control look."
I'm pretty sure Microsoft's Windows 95 "beveled gray buttons" look was inspired by NeXTSTEP. The elements are all there: embossed group boxes, inset fields, and raised buttons, all done in gray (as opposed to white like Mac OS of the era. Before NeXTSTEP, UIs didn't look like this. After NeXT, everyone from Amgia to Motif to Windows adopted the "beveled control look."
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Office Ribbon interface is messed up. Everything in the wrong place. I was and still feel frustrated with it. If you don't use Office on daily basis you will never figure it out.
Agreed, I really liked Office 97. Basically against that standard, other than bigger row limits, and nicer PPT, Office has been downgrades since 1997. It's almost worth running an old XP virtual machine just to run old Office.
I never knew MS had a design / R&D department, I always believed the story about them using Apple for that!
LOL - they also don't have a software test department.
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Windows side has had stronger cgi program support for many many years so this wouldn't surprise me that much.
My first reaction to the Win 8 start menu graphics was that it looks like Palm/WebOS. I really don't see the similarity to iOS...
Time and time again I have heard nothing but complaints from pc users. But when they see Apple in action they fall in love. That is from my perspective. Screw windows man.
My 2008 macbook unibody Al is going to be 3 years old this year and I have not had one damn problem with it. I have been left speechless by the power and reliability of this laptop.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it plays quake on quaklive like storm trooper on steroids. Booya!!!
I want the 27 inch imac but that beast is...Oh sh**!!!!
Maybe it's just me, but if you look at the graphic and say that Mac had the first icons, but Windows 1.0 had the first color icons, and follow the chart from there, it looks like the Mac icons copy Win icons. The icons that are arbitrarily called "cartoon" for Win XP look a lot to me like the "photorealistic" Mac OS X icons. What it calls Win "photorealistic" looks like super-photorealistic to me.
You sound like a terrible creepypasta.
"Hyperrealistic blood"?
Even when Apple wasn't Apple, Microsoft still copied them.
Seems they just followed wherever Steve Jobs went.
What's next, Microsoft creates their own CGI film division?
Can't wait for Clippy Story, A BOB's Life, Clippy Story 2, Finding Longhorn, Microsoft Inc., The Anti-Trustables, Staerbückes, BALLME-R, Up(grade), Clippy Story 3, and their newest movie, (Internet) Explorer.
Perhaps you are not aware of Dreamworks? It's full of Microosft money, and all it does is copy Disney/Pixar ideas and make them worse, rushing them to market in an attempt to kill the original. No creativity, no art, just an effort to make money churning out cheap crap.
Antz: Bugs Life as rotoscoped actors rather than real animated characters
Shark Tale: Finding Nemo as rotoscoped actors rather than real animated characters
Madagascar: Ripped off the entirety of Disney's The Wild
Monsters vs Aliens: Monsters Inc + aliens
Shrek, Chicken Run: spoofs of existing movies
The only really original work comes from acquisitions of preexisting talent that Dreamworks eventually destroyed, like the Aardman animation people.
Curious that Jobs owned Pixar and 18% of Dreamworks is owned by Microsoft director Paul Allen, Microsoft even created an interactive joint venture with Dreamworks. The company also backed HD-DVD with Microsoft, as opposed to the Disney led BluRay
Or as one cartoonist observed:
Note that Dreamworks has made more movies and more money, but its products are consistently ranked lower by critics and customers: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/pi...ion-comparison