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| Time: 13:11 EST/18:11 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Solution providers are puzzled over Microsoft's vehement denial that the Windows 7 look and feel was "borrowed" from Mac OS X. In fact, some suspect that Microsoft doth protest too much.
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 11/16/2009 2:30:44 PM |
| Outside the world of corporate-speak, this is blatantly obvious to everyone. Nothing exists in a vacuum. However, as a corporation, you're just not allowed to admit that you used something that proved to be successful for someone else. Mac copied from Windows as Windows copied from Mac. The only ones that care about keeping score need to get out more often. |
| #2 By 13997 (98.246.101.184) at 11/16/2009 8:21:57 PM |
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I think the bigger point here is that Microsoft's method of creating the UI for Windows over the years is very much NOT Mac influenced.
If you look at Windows going back to the original CUI guidelines and the evolution and reintroduction of concepts as technology allows for them, Windows is very much its own UI ecosystem. So when Microsoft created Windows7, they didn't go, what makes the Mac UI so awesome and so perfect and how can we replicate all the brilliance that is Mac... If this were true, MENUS would be king and other pillars of the Mac UI constructs would be used throughout the OS. Instead Windows7 builds on Windows concepts that do go back to Windows 1.0 and then moves to 'evolve' past current generation GUI concepts that other OSes, even the Mac OS, thinks are just fine and dandy, even if they were outdated 15 years ago. There is a reason Windows7 doesn't have a Menu bar at the top of the screen or a disconnected floating 'dock'. There are also reasons the whole 'concept' of Menus are even more removed from Windows7, as was started with Office 2007 and Vista. Just to harp on the Menu concept, Mac OS is all about Menus, to the point the UI dedicates part of the display to a Menu Bar. Windows on the other hand has removed what Menus existed in previous generations and are only available by hitting the Alt key for old school people or for some 'odd' setting or feature that the more natural non-menu UI doesn't offer. Menus are a key to seeing this, as Microsoft UI research is pushing users away from a very old GUI concept (Menus). Menus were a 'kludge/fix' for early GUIs as there was not enough computing power or 'methods' to offer the feature set of an application without a list of commands. And this is what Menus are, a list of commands, a 'Word List', a non GUI concept at its heart as it requires people to memorize or remember LISTS OF WORDS - which is what Menus are and do. Instead Microsoft and Windows and Office are moving to future progression of GUI design that gets rid of the 'Word List' concept that is menus and is replacing this with intelligence in the UI design that offers feature as needed and presents more options through a merger of toolbars and contextual preview tools that make up the Ribbon interface for complex applications. And for simplistic applications or even Windows Explorer itself, a simple contextual Menu Bar easily replaces 99% of the need for a Menu Bar. So if Microsoft was trying to be OS X, Windows 7 would have a huge shared Menu at the top of the screen and more wasted UI space on a floating dock that gets lost behind applications, both of which are the 'bad' concepts that Apple seems to still love. Sure ideas are shared around the industry... I see squiggle underlines in Word Processors that are not Word, I see Text Drag and Drop in OSes and applications that are not Word, I also see the concept of select and modify that Microsoft Word first introducted in the early 80s as a staple of many OSes and Applications - and all of these now seem everyday - especially the select and modify concept that is essential to all OSes and Applications. Yet people do forget that these specific UI concepts didn't exist before the MS Word developers created them. This post was edited by thenetavenger on Monday, November 16, 2009 at 20:22. |
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