Comments on: My proposal to improve Windows 8 https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8/#comment-6745 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:01:25 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3282#comment-6745 In reply to Marcel.

I’ve been using ribbon-ified apps for about four years now, and still don’t understand the ribbon either, so you’re not missing much. The idea was to replace the menu and the toolbars with one thing that had the functionality of both, but it failed. Miserably. I guess I should write up an explanation of the ribbon and why it’s the worst thing to happen to computing in 30 years.

]]> By: Marcel https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8/#comment-6744 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:29:37 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3282#comment-6744 I don’t really understand this post, and I think I’m glad. After six or seven years using Linux I got a used Dell with XP installed and it’s working okay. Whatever this ribbon interface is, I hope to avoid it.

]]> By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8/#comment-6743 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:27:39 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3282#comment-6743 In reply to Glaurung_quena.

Just the needless extension of the pointless, user-hostile ribbon interface to other parts of Windows 8.

]]> By: Glaurung_quena https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-proposal-to-improve-windows-8/#comment-6742 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:52 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3282#comment-6742 Very funny, and very true – there are many many programs I have refused to upgrade, or quit using altogether, because the newest version has been “improved” to the point where I would have to learn to use it over again. Not to mention the number of programs I have tried over the years and run away from screaming because the authors have decided that the conventional WIMP UI that everyone already understands (because they’ve been using it since forever) is “old” and “stale” and “broken” and so they go with something that I refuse to take the time to learn how to deal with.

Most recently, of course, there’s Firefox 4, which I was forced to fix with two different extensions to restore functionality that they took out for no logical reason I could discern.

All that said, however, I get the feeling that you are satirizing something specific here, and I don’t know what it is.

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