• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    “Turn off computer” requiring admin privilege escalation is a clever touch.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Actually it’s even more realism, when the shield is on the power button it indicates pending updates.

      source

      OOP knows their stuff!

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        10 months ago

        Wow… that’s really intricate and sure is attention to realism to a level I didn’t realize.

        Also the more or less hidden “click here to power off without installing updates” shows how little Microsoft has changed.

        • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          That option was actually fully removed in 8 I believe, then restored in 11 (and newer versions of 10 iirc?) because everyone hated it so much lol

          Also I think it was Vista that replaced the flag shield on the power button with a yellow exclamation mark shield instead to differentiate it from the new UAC which used the flag shield logo

          edit: images bc i love this stuff lol

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I mean, Windows 98’s “Active Desktop” was pretty much this.

    Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they’re sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we’ll finally accept it.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s not nearly shitty enough. It’s too useful. Look at all the options and other clickable things you got on the start menu, and it only took one click to open it.

    That’s not how this works anymore. If this were truly made today, it would be needlessly “streamlined”, i.e. everything is hidden so as not to “clutter up” the UI with useful things, and make more room for…nothing. Just wasted space.

    We hide everything behind multiple clicks now because the “average user” starts bleeding out their eyes if they’re forced to see many things at once.

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Also, icons. The icons in Windows XP are too recognizable. You need to minimalize them. In fact, minimalize it so hard that not one person could understand what the icon is even referring to.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Abstract art icons.

        Folder: rectangle on its side. Start: triangle pointing up. Trash: rectangle standing up.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Also missing the handy celebrity gossip, weather and irrelevant stonks shit that pops up every time you mouse past it in the Taskbar.