Linked by Richard Keiichi Yamauchi, Jr. on Mon 27th Jan 2003 17:58 UTC
Some of you might be thinking, why? Well, I think it's about time. MCSE's, VB Programmers, and techies have been using Windows for years, and I think it's about time Windows moves to the desktop for ordinary people.
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My biggest problem with Windows (which easily applies to other os desktop software) is how poorly the filesystem is represented.
There are tons of people who have been using windows for years, but when you ask them for a file, they respond "In Word." Look at the save-as dialog sometime and pretend you're joe-sixpack. Shit, I'm surprised it's intuitive enough for people to hit the save button, let alone organize their files into hierarchies.
I'll go so far as to say most people don't need hierarchies. The best os in my not-so-humble opinion got it right: Palm OS. Any OS my non-tech-savvy mom can use without any instruction is alright by me. Files (or actually, data records) are divided into user-definable categories. Any type of data that particular program could access is available within that app, and all operations can only be performed within that app.
Why can't a desktop OS be this simple?