• deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    That’s not nearly shitty enough. It’s too useful. Look at all the options and other clickable things you got on the start menu, and it only took one click to open it.

    That’s not how this works anymore. If this were truly made today, it would be needlessly “streamlined”, i.e. everything is hidden so as not to “clutter up” the UI with useful things, and make more room for…nothing. Just wasted space.

    We hide everything behind multiple clicks now because the “average user” starts bleeding out their eyes if they’re forced to see many things at once.

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 months ago

      Also, icons. The icons in Windows XP are too recognizable. You need to minimalize them. In fact, minimalize it so hard that not one person could understand what the icon is even referring to.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 months ago

        Abstract art icons.

        Folder: rectangle on its side. Start: triangle pointing up. Trash: rectangle standing up.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Whatever happened to her? I can’t even remember the last time I heard anything about Janet Jackson.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    29·
    5 months ago

    “Turn off computer” requiring admin privilege escalation is a clever touch.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      40·
      5 months ago

      Actually it’s even more realism, when the shield is on the power button it indicates pending updates.

      source

      OOP knows their stuff!

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        9·
        5 months ago

        Wow… that’s really intricate and sure is attention to realism to a level I didn’t realize.

        Also the more or less hidden “click here to power off without installing updates” shows how little Microsoft has changed.

        • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          8·
          5 months ago

          That option was actually fully removed in 8 I believe, then restored in 11 (and newer versions of 10 iirc?) because everyone hated it so much lol

          Also I think it was Vista that replaced the flag shield on the power button with a yellow exclamation mark shield instead to differentiate it from the new UAC which used the flag shield logo

          edit: images bc i love this stuff lol

      • IHawkMike@lemmy.world
        6·
        5 months ago

        Oh yeah, I had forgotten that too. UAC with separate elevated tokens and Session 0 isolation didn’t even exist until Vista/2008.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    25·
    5 months ago

    I mean, Windows 98’s “Active Desktop” was pretty much this.

    Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they’re sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we’ll finally accept it.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      5 months ago

      Also missing the handy celebrity gossip, weather and irrelevant stonks shit that pops up every time you mouse past it in the Taskbar.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 months ago

    That [Yes] [Remind Me Later] thing is so 2007…

    Nowadays Windows features all have a definitive [Off] option, that will fully hide the feature from view and only enable a daily message that pops under your mouse so you can turn it back on any time you want.

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    Honestly if Microsoft reintroduces the skeuomorphic UI I’ll tolerate any bullshit they pull. It’s just objectively pretty IMO.

    Also this start menu doesn’t have nearly enough useless negative space. Here is my work Win11 start menu for comparison:

    • lud@lemm.ee
      11·
      5 months ago

      How can it be objectively pretty in your opinion?

      Sounds highly subjective to me.

      For the record I think it’s ugly.

        • lud@lemm.ee
          2·
          5 months ago

          Unrelated but can Microsoft please update the old rsat tools.

          Yes the app “users and computers” work but it could have been so much better if it had a few adjustments like a search bar.

          When editing GPOs why the hell can’t I just change an existing setting without opening the editor and digging through the whole damn tree first.

          Shame the MS never will improve these tools because on prem is not the cloud.