With Windows Seven demoed yesterday, I feel the need to say something profound. Something that really caters to windows users like Joe Six Pack. You see, Joe Six Pack has a little bit of a hard time with computers in general. He's finally gotten used to Windows XP, and is reacclimating to Vista. Then, boom! It's a brand new paradigm. And a brand new metaphor. Microsoft is trying to adapt Windows' document-centric window management to be more like Mac OS X's application-centric window management. And it isn't doing well. The result? Windows is becoming more of a power user OS and less of an OS for Joe Six Pack or Joe the Plumber. The concept of Document Libraries is incredibly weird, because people will treat them like folders. "There are too many documents in this folder. I'll just organize them. No, I can't." Naturally, Microsoft will add wizards and popup balloons that explain everything that around fifteen people will look at. The rest of the users will muddle along, saying that it is too complicated and as a result switching to Linux and Mac OS X. Linux already works with more hardware out of the box than windows, but I never thought I would see the day that it would do it more simply than Windows as well.
Full Disclosure: This post was written off of an Ubuntu LiveCD while playing with Compiz's wobbly windows.
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