Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Apr 2011 17:50 UTC, submitted by Cytor
The day is finally here, the day that the GNOME team releases GNOME 3.0, the first major revision of the GNOME project since 2002. Little of GNOME 2.x is left in GNOME 3.0, and as such, you could call it GNOME's KDE4. We're living in fortunate times, what, with two wildly divergent open source desktops.
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Windows 3.11 --> Windows 95: drastically different UI.
Windows NT 3.x --> Windows NT 4.0: drastically different UI.
Windows 2K/9x --> Windows XP: drastically different UI.
Windows XP --> Windows 7: drastically different UI.
Same for their Office suites (Office 2.0 -> 6.0 -> 95 -> 2003 -> 2007).
Yeah, it's great that Microsoft doesn't foist radically different UIs onto it's users :roll-eyes: Especially considering how little benefit there actually is to the new interface(s) compared to the old.
Member since:2005-10-02
Actually you're mistaken in regard to Win2K/9X and switch to later versions. UI!=GUI.
Apart from skinning there is no particular difference between Windows 95 and Windows XP in the way you interact with the Desktop. Windows 7 is merely minor differences on that particular implementation of the Desktop Metaphor.
There is also no particularly difference for earlier versions of MS Office. Not until 2007 does anything major happen, apart from the ever creasing number of menu items and toolbar buttons.
From a UI perspective there is very little difference on the first Mac and Windows 7 or XFCE - or even KDE4. The Gnome Shell deviates strongly, and is pushing me towards KDE4, since I don't mind giving up on GTK 
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Member since:2007-03-30
Windows 3.11 --> Windows 95: drastically different UI.
Windows NT 3.x --> Windows NT 4.0: drastically different UI.
Windows 2K/9x --> Windows XP: drastically different UI.
Windows XP --> Windows 7: drastically different UI.
Same for their Office suites (Office 2.0 -> 6.0 -> 95 -> 2003 -> 2007).
Yeah, it's great that Microsoft doesn't foist radically different UIs onto it's users :roll-eyes: Especially considering how little benefit there actually is to the new interface(s) compared to the old.
Windows NT 3.x --> Windows NT 4.0: drastically different UI.
Windows 2K/9x --> Windows XP: drastically different UI.
Windows XP --> Windows 7: drastically different UI.
Same for their Office suites (Office 2.0 -> 6.0 -> 95 -> 2003 -> 2007).
Yeah, it's great that Microsoft doesn't foist radically different UIs onto it's users :roll-eyes: Especially considering how little benefit there actually is to the new interface(s) compared to the old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8K87H3T1UU#t=27s
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Indeed. I switched mostly to OS X full time, but I still loved GNOME on a Linux machine that I use occasionally. The nicest thing about GNOME was that progress was evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. That day has now gone by. You can completely overhaul a user interface, but do it over the course of a few years.
At the very least OS X and Windows don't force a completely new UI down everyone's throats in a whim.