Comment by markus_zhang

4 hours ago

> Users expect much more from today's UI

This is funny. You know, users also want games to be ridden of DRM but I don’t think the big companies cared about that for a long time. Users also want a lot of things that they never got, like a visible scroll bar sometimes.

And since Windows is primarily OEM or enterprise, I don’t know what users are going to do if Microsoft sticks to say Windows 7 UI? Like, uninstalling Windows and switching to Linux? Oh yeah, they are doing that right now.

Sure users want A or B, but that’s not important. What’s important is some idiot VP saw something and decided to push on, and other managers jumped in to grab the pie.

> Users expect much more from today's UIs

Are these users in the room with us. If anything, today's UIs are dumbed down, mobile first abominations.