ProphecyBoy

@fixx Thanks, looks pretty good, but we're looking for something hosted and pay-by-the month. You should really consider both of those. - more on Twitter
Jul 25th 2005
Tags: Geek Tech

We can see the Vista, and it’s cluttered

Is it just me, or is the next version of Windows, now Windows Vista, way too text-heavy? I’m guessing that people going to the Control Panel don’t really want to read a novella, they just want to fix their system. I noticed this in the last preview photos, and it hasn’t gotten any better. Text everywhere, and way more information floating around on the screen. Microsoft seems to not understand that most people don’t ever need to know that their hard drive is FAT32, that you can communicate a file type better by icon than by a text description, and that a scrollbar on the Start menu just looks cluttered. This is their answer to Tiger?

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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