Unoriginal MS GUI

hypoluxahypoluxa
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I dont know why..but MS's new interface could not be more of a blatant copy of OS X's finder. It just annoys the @#$! outta me that the engineeers couldnt come up with a orginal UI design. oooh look! we have brushed metal now too!



geesh..



http://news.com.com/2300-1012_3-5873648-5.html



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  • Reply 1 of 7
    mynameheremynamehere Posts: 560member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by hypoluxa

    I dont know why..but MS's new interface could not be more of a blatant copy of OS X's finder. It just annoys the @#$! outta me that the engineeers couldnt come up with a orginal UI design. oooh look! we have brushed metal now too!



    geesh..



    http://news.com.com/2300-1012_3-5873648-5.html



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    Well that's nothing to the interface of Microsoft X...I mean Vista (which is still pretty ugly).



    But the article that goes with the picture is pretty interesting also. I wonder if they'll have an option to keep the menus...
  • Reply 2 of 7
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by hypoluxa

    I dont know why..but MS's new interface could not be more of a blatant copy of OS X's finder. It just annoys the @#$! outta me that the engineeers couldnt come up with a orginal UI design. oooh look! we have brushed metal now too!



    geesh..



    http://news.com.com/2300-1012_3-5873648-5.html



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    Excuse me, but that is what you get from the picture? That MS is copying Apple? Is all you see a bit of brushed metal and not the tapped menus?



    If anything that picture is documenting that MS is taking a huge bold step in their GUI design, almost revolutionary. Time will tell if it is "October Revolution"-revolutionary or "inventing wheel"-revolutionary.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    gongon Posts: 2,437member
    http://www.softpedia.com/progScreens...hot-15976.html



    3D Studio had exactly the same kind of tabs years ago. There's nothing revolutionary about them.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    progmacprogmac Posts: 1,850member
    looks cool and looks like it requires a screen with a lot of resolutions.



    does Office '04 for Mac have this?
  • Reply 5 of 7
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Talk about an oxymoron thread title...
  • Reply 6 of 7
    gongon Posts: 2,437member
    I got a catchphrase for their product.



    Word 12: For anyone who thinks typing a note should be as easy as professional 3D modeling.
  • Reply 7 of 7
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Ug. There seem to be a few different kinds of GUI's out there.



    1. Toolbar mania. A la anything from Microsoft. "Tabs" change nothing.



    2. Floating Palette Hell. A la anything from Adobe. The only way to get to a lot of features in InDesign, for example, is to hunt for tiny icons in a sea of Floating palettes.



    3. Hierarchical GUI. A la most things Apple, and other well-thought programs. I'll use Quark as an example, since I used InDesign in (2). In Quark, the features are accessible through inspector windows that only show up when you need them.



    I suppose being more familiar with Apple is what makes me like Quark more. But it does seem to be the case that folks who have used exclusively Windows are accustomed to cluttered GUIs, and probably even appreciate the palette overflow of most Adobe apps.
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