With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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You know what program they routinely use in movies to create those futuristic interfaces? Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com).
Specifically WindowBlinds for the GUI and DesktopX for the rest of it.
It's often used poorly as has been mentioned but they usually are trying to communicate to the audience rather than worrying about being authetnic.