"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
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Buying a box of Windows Vista PC users didn't buy just an operating system for their "bare" PC. They bought promises of (finally!) better looking and more user-friendly system. The stories given by software developers led by Microsoft showed us the nice-looking, cool, 3D, animated etc. applications and Microsoft presented a wide range of appliances of the WPF.
After almost two years of having Vista on the market, the only application that is really better-looking than on XP is... the Vista itself. As more and more companies are ignoring the Windows possibilities (and Windows is still and will still be the most popular operating system on Earth for a long time), the question is: why?
I am not sure if designing and creating WPF-based apps is too difficult for developers. Is it perhaps political decision? Hating the Redmond's giant became a good style even for IT branch. The mood around Microsoft is discouraging, no matter what the company does. Trying to discourage users to not using Windows Vista is, however, not the way to get popularity among them.
To be honest: none of my friends (including myself) are using original Yahoo Messenger. We all do communicate by Yahoo's protocol, but we all use different application for that. The promise of creating a nice-looking, "cool" app for IM was encouraging. The screenshots made a great advert of the app: yes, we wanted the messegner. Now, the promise was broken and users were left with nothing (ok, with same "old-looking" app the XP users can have installed). There is nothing new, nothing fresh.
Shame on Yahoo.