[Info-vax] RMS intro

[John Dallman]

In article <umv3ll$2adef$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> If MS want to continue the big presence in the consumer segment,
> then they need to address it. Somehow they need to get into
> the phone and tablet market. This is why the MS CEO recently
> said that he regretted killing Windows Phone.

Then he still hasn't faced up to the reason for its failure. As far as I
can tell, that was because it was too much like desktop/laptop Windows. 

iOS and Android both have pretty gentle learning curves. You don't need
to know much to start using them, and fairly small steps in learning open
up more activities quite quickly. 

Windows Phone's GUI was ... kind of complicated. It makes sense to
someone who's been closely following the evolution of desktop Windows
since about the year 2000, and always sticking to the Microsoft defaults.
Like, say, Microsoft's UI designers and marketing people. 

But it has been a pretty twisty path, and there's a lot of accumulated
strangeness. The result is not friendly to someone who has never used
Windows, and that's quite hard for someone who is very pro-Windows to
understand. 

Me, I regarded Windows 2000 as the peak of their GUI design, and it's
been getting worse, on average, ever since. 

John