A good commercial, minimal OS. Too much to ask?
31st January 2007, Design, Technology, Trends1 Comment
I’m a bit dissillusioned with OS directions at the moment, Unix, Windows and Mac.
I was thinking about upgrading my PC from XP to Vista the other day, but really all I want is the OS to boot up my software and then get out of the way. It seems the three big guns are hell bent on trying to do the opposite in the quest for the best consumer OS, and as ever, the end users suffer.
If Microsoft released a seriously minimal os (not just Vista Home as opposed to Vista Ultimate) that ran everything without that god damn “wow” they keep advertising, it’d sell like hotcakes. Unix is too much hard work and Mac suffers on the software front, and this is where Windows wins, but for the love of God, can’t they give us something we want for once?
Is this really where we’re heading?
9th January 2007, Ajax, Trends0 Comments
Now, I’m sure this has been very well coded and executed, but who the on earth needs an Ajax app mixing Tag clouds with To Do lists? Its so inane I almost couldn’t write this post for lack of words to describe it.
No offence intended to whoever has toiled over this but I’ve always found online to-do lists oxymoronic. I’m pretty sure by the time you’ve created your account, logged in, written up your list and then cleverly tagged them all, then waded through your tag cloud to find the damn task again, you could have just gone and done it.
