Windows 7 Build 7000 Control Panel 2 (User Interface Transition from Windows XP to Windows 7)

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Change for change sake?

Your sarcasm not withstanding your attempt at comment misses the mark. Change is inherently neither good nor bad. Sometimes change is very personal such as when someone decides to wear their hair differently. But sometimes change impacts functionality such as totally scrambling a legacy UI. However the Windows UI has remained very consistent across distributions after 3.x. Now with over a decade of business users trained to this UI MS altered it dramatically and in ways that frankly defy understanding of usability. The XP UI was also changed but I presume owing to the understanding of training implication for established installations the new UI could be set to the legacy (old is not synonymous with antiquated by the way) format and users could motor right along without retraining. The fact that Office 2007 has yet to gain great traction in business is in no small part due to the unnecessary UI modifications not to mention the bloat and the silly ribbon interface addition that in Windows 7 has will be added to Paint and Notepad of all things.

But then their came Mac envy and a cultural misjudgment that discounted business concerns so we get desktop transparencies, gadgets and an utterly ridiculous UI in general. This is on top of all the other issues. And since Windows 7 is really shaping up to be Vista R2 under another name I suspect it will receive a similar reception. Vista and Windows 7 will ultimately be the greatest gift Open Source has yet received.

And yes, I?ve used Vista. We purchased special machines to ?get acquainted,? worked with it for a couple of months and determined that there wasn?t anything remotely close to benefits offsetting costs. Even if Vista were to work as intended it still wouldn?t provide benefits that offset costs (hello Windows 7). For those who are happy with it I am truly pleased for you. For others who need to watch a business budget this dog will never hunt.

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