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[email protected]>, Ken Springer
One thing that Apple hasn't done, which may lead people to think there
isn't much difference between each OS version, is change the UI design
like MS has. So to that casual observer, they may not notice much
If by "the UI design", you mean the shapes, sizes, and colours of
things, then MS changing those every time (usually to bigger [so you end
up on your new bigger screen only being able to have as many things as
you did before] and more childlike colours) is one of the things that
_has_ irritated me: it makes it difficult to see what has _really_
changed. Oh, and the _positions_ and _names_ of things. (I think 7
improved things slightly in that you _can_ often use the old name for
things - but at the cost of the default access route being a search
facility rather than the older hard menu structure.)
difference between Jaguar and Mountain Lion. And the same UI design is
the same for the upcoming Mavericks.
But the more I play with XP, Vista, Win 7, and Win 8, the more I notice
that the big changes aren't as big as the hype suggests to me. I think
much of that change is in the UI, but each new version has added a few
things. And some of the hype is, IMO, bordering on fraud. Libraries,
for instance. When I saw them, and read the "soundbites", I thought
"This is really something!" Then I got into it, figured it out, and
Yes, I thought it was - via something like Unix (yes Unix, from before
Linux!) links - going to finally get round the problem of wanting to be
able to have something in two places at once but not two copies (so, for
example, I could file the same picture under Mum, Dad, and family,
without using a third-party "album" software that would get confused if
I moved a file without telling it). But it doesn't seem to have done so,
from what I've read here.
