[ OT, but sliding into OnT ]
! Geez, the passion, the commitment, the ecstasy of it all! LOL!
Heh heh... I've settled down, but please, please. Just don't mention the damn box!
But it is an interesting lesson and shows some of the problems that Microsoft usually handles well when doing upgrades. Most people don't like change, but the company's growth depends on change. Every time Microsoft releases a new version of a product, they risk alienating folks who want to see and do things in the same way as before. Often, they have to introduce the new with significant concessions to the old. It shows just how risky Windows 95 was since it was a huge departure from the old ways of doing things. (And a massive improvement that finally prompted me, for one, to buy a Wintel machine for the first time.)
Most of us complain at one time or another about "software bloat", but it seems inevitable in an upgrade system since companies can rarely get rid of the old ways when they introduce something new.
SI will have to bloat the pages somewhat by offering a choice of the clean new design without boxes and a cluttered boxed message that looks a little more like the old design. But without that bit of bloat, they would have risked alienating too many users. |
