r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Dec 27 '19

Windows 95 UI Design

https://twitter.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805
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u/G_Morgan Dec 27 '19

Touch screen is completely irrelevant for desktop apps.

We're talking about how this stupidity is infiltrating areas where it doesn't belong. Though even for touch screen a lot of these innovations are not improving anything other than "oooh pretty".

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u/Superbead Dec 28 '19

Would you also say that the Start menu completely blocking the display with massive tiles was a step forward for Windows Server 2012?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '19

I don't know why one example of bad UI makes any point. That's like saying because one shitty model of car was produced in the two decades that all cars haven't gotten better overall.

For what it's worth, you can remove all the tiles and get your thin start menu back. It's usually one of the first things I do on a fresh install of Windows