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Re: The Next Microsoft

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What is so wrong with Windows? Seriously. It's not perfect, but I'm yet to find an OS that is.

The big one - forking is far too slow. Others - you can't use select(..) on files. Nasty file-locking model. No good remote filesystem solution out of the box (CIFS is slow and unstable) and the third party solutions are nasty. No native workspaces and the third party attempts are nasty. You can't reflect against the system API (all current mainstream OSs suffer from this). The API is particularly thick with legacy o…

The presence on your list of a complaint about workspaces is evidence that Windows is not so bad because having workspaces is not that important.

OS X did not have workspaces at all for many years, and the two different versions of it they have introduced are kind of lame in the details of how they work. (Specifically, Command-Tab cycles among all open apps, not just the ones in the current workspace, as is done on Linux, and there is no other quick way to switch to a different app in the same workspace -- Mission Control not qualifying as quick -- with the result that I sometimes make a point to put two windows that "belong together" in separate workspaces just so I have a quick way to switch between them.

Re: The Next Microsoft

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Microsoft is big enough that a shape that simple could easily become their logo. What company is this: http://www.owenjonesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1_... or this: http://www.wearesuntravel.com/SquareLogo_Jewel.303162624_std... or this: http://www.vintagevideogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/...

What's the second one? Edit: never mind. Its Square Up. Found it on the second page of a Google Image Search.

Square

Re: The Next Microsoft

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Nicely done. I think the only 'mistake' is the shot of Balmer in there - nothing against the man, just think if you are truly trying to break their current image problem, then showing him doesn't help that cause.

Otherwise, really well done.

Re: The Next Microsoft

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Allow me to be contrarian for a moment and say I don't like it. It's a nice experiment, and it's better than the new Windows logo, but to me it fails on a few different grounds.

-- The typographic mark is less substantial, and the typeface is just poor. The existing logo isn't pretty, but it works just fine, and the arrow device connecting the O and S is cute.

-- The use of a lower case "m" is just a slave to a trend that died years ago. And some idiot in marketing will decide that it has to be written as 'microsoft', even at the beginning of a sentence.

-- The new design language with the "Deutsche Bank" logo competes and clashes with all the work Microsoft have put into their Metro design language. As much as I despise the new Windows logo, the Metro theme has been well implemented in stores and marketing.

Re: The Next Microsoft

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Huh... I had no idea the Windows 1.0 logo looked like that. It's actually rather timeless. Kinda interesting that they've brought it back a little with the new logo.

I noticed the same thing.. the windows 1.0 logo looked like something modern. I don't know why they did not just dust it off and go back to their roots.
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