Paul Thurrott got an interview with Microsoft's top design gurus (Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek. These folks are the ones who head the team that's designing the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. [via The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]
Paul Thurrott got an interview with Microsoft's top design gurus (Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek. These folks are the ones who head the team that's designing the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
[via The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]
Paul: Yeah. Every version of Office has to have some unique UI that doesn't exist anywhere else in any other Microsoft product. ... Tjeerd: Aww, it's not too bad. I wasn't responsible for writing the code ... Paul: It's even worse if you're responsible for the vision of it ...
Paul: Yeah. Every version of Office has to have some unique UI that doesn't exist anywhere else in any other Microsoft product.
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Tjeerd: Aww, it's not too bad. I wasn't responsible for writing the code ...
Paul: It's even worse if you're responsible for the vision of it ...
It would have been nice to see a justification, a promise they won't do it again, something, anything other than laugh. Its always struck me as odd that the people behind MS's premier Office product should be saying that the stuff behind the OS, from the same company, is useless. Mind you, their attitude has created a large 3rd party market in "Office compatible" (by which they mean looks like) toolbars etc.
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