On Friday, 25 May 2012 at 14:42:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Just because some people like it doesn't mean it was a sensible
move to force it on *everyone*.
Just because a few people don't »like it« doesn't mean it
wasn't a good move as everyone else now benefits from it.
All they have to do is just not remove the old way, leave it in
as an
option. It's not as hard as some make it out to be. Problem
solved,
everyone's pleased.
Except for the users who'd actually dare to open the ginormous
configuration dialogs, or the poor developers who'd have to
maintain that mess. Just adding stuff to your product without
ever removing something doesn't work.
And it's downright false to categorize this as a mere matter of
"not pleasing everybody". They're "not pleasing" nearly *half*
of their userbase.
Come on, you just made that figure up. I bet most of the big UI
changes go through extensive usability testing. And no, the
relative market share of Windows XP compared to Windows 7 is
_not_ an argument – it isn't like the only difference between
the two OSes was the task bar.
David
