{"id":183642,"date":"2013-01-04T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/04\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-f-with-user-interfaces-just-because\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:36:00","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-you-f-with-user-interfaces-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/04\/this-is-what-happens-when-you-f-with-user-interfaces-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What Happens When You F%$# With User Interfaces, Just Because"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is what the much loathed ribbon is all about, and now Windows 8, which has managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9235166\/Update_Windows_8_s_early_uptake_lags_behind_Vista_s\">underperform Vista&#8217;s market acceptance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista&#8217;s uptake pace during its first two months.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Preliminary numbers from Net Applications last week indicated that Windows 8 would end the month behind Vista&#8217;s uptake at the same point in its release cycle. Yesterday&#8217;s data confirmed the earlier projections by Computerworld.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/94xvQ.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple gets that while a smart phone and a tablet are similar things, that neither of them are a PC, so for tablets and iPhones, you have IOS, and for the MacIntosh, they still run OSX, which is a conventional keyboard and mouse Operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Windows may be a good tablet\/phone OS, but for a conventional PC, it sucks wet farts from dead pigeons. <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it&#8217;s worse than Google&#8217;s light gray on white color scheme that has become their standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is what the much loathed ribbon is all about, and now Windows 8, which has managed to underperform Vista&#8217;s market acceptance: Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista&#8217;s uptake pace during its first two months.Preliminary numbers from Net Applications last week indicated that Windows &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1025,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}