Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
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Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#2I tried to download it - their new simple solution is to include it as part of Windows Live.
So I want a simple movie editor to clip 5secs off the beginning of a home movie - BUT to do this I have to sign up for an MS specific hotmail account, create a windows passport (I thought they had abandoned that?) get Windows messenger, windows photo viewer and be included in a whole bunch of MS specific social websites.
So I found a torrent of Movie maker 2.6 for XP - it works perfectly on Win7.
Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#3The fact that Gates regularly attempted to eat Microsoft's dog food (alas he couldn't get the can open in this case) is encouraging; but ultimately it doesn't seem to have helped much.
Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#4This is a great reminder (to me) that software UI should be designed around how many pieces of information it needs from the user, not how many things it needs to do.
Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#5The fact that Gates regularly attempted to eat Microsoft's dog food (alas he couldn't get the can open in this case) is encouraging; but ultimately it doesn't seem to have helped much.
If he did send out stuff like this often and nobody gave a damn then that's really discouraging. There go my "if I ran Microsoft" fantasies. /sigh
I've always imagined one of the reasons Apple products are so polished is because Steve rides people like this all day long until they stop sucking.
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#6I've seen this before, but it's worth a read again. Gates said when this first came out that writing emails like this was pretty much his job. He's not the only one--from the stories you read, it sounds like half of Steve Jobs' job is to be a good critic. Of course, Apple doesn't release much until after Steve Jobs criticizes it.
Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#7I tried to download it - their new simple solution is to include it as part of Windows Live. So I want a simple movie editor to clip 5secs off the beginning of a home movie - BUT to do this I have to sign up for an MS specific hotmail account, create a windows passport (I thought they had abandoned that?) get Windows messenger, windows photo viewer and be included in a whole bunch of MS specific social websites. So I…
I guess in the bubble over at microsoft they assume everyone that uses windows will defiantly want windows live anyway.
Re: Bill Gates: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?"
#8If Gates had maintained a dictatorial death grip on his company like Steve Jobs has, MS probably could have made some decent products.
It's one thing to yell at the people who made this system via email. It's quite another to never allow them to ship it in the first place.
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#9Seriously though, is all of this fixed in Windows 7, or are people just hyping that up because it sucks alot less than any previous Windows iterations?
I don't think I've _ever_ seen a process that convoluted, and I've been using Linux OSes since _before_ the advent of dependency-resolvers like yum and apt (i.e, the bad old days of "RPM hell").
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#10"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."