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Codename Max, Beautiful RSS for All : It seems Microsoft is all over the place, with their newfound addiction to building cute and 'impressive' GUIs that usually do little to conceal the lack of substance. As a computer programmer, I certainly can see how one or more engineers can get excited about a bunch of cool new technologies and are driven by the desire to build things them it. Yet, under all those hardware accelerated widgets, the visual effects, the bells'n'whistles and the apparent luck of any HIG that would dictate how those are are laid out ( wow, long sentence ! ), there is little to be found. Having said that, I believe Microsoft will start coming out with some good products sooner or later. Once its engineers and managers satisfy their excitement ( look! check out this cool new widget type that I created !) , borrow a few more ideas from Apple and others and release Vista, good things may come out of Redmond.

This reminds me of the frames crazy ( when Netscape added support for frames, everyone was into frames ), the applets craze ( look! bouncing balls ! ).. ditto for flash movies etc. However, once the initial excitement wears off, good things usually happen. All in all, Aero seems nice, but there is only so many flying thingie, transparent windows and multi-colored boxes one can take within a single screen..

Tagged with: microsoft , windows , programming
Published at Saturday, 16 September 2006 2:51 am