[Am-info] Gates: Antitrust trial "a waste of resources"

[Dan Strychalski]

Paul Rickard (mail@msbc.simplenet.com) wrote --

> ====== On 06.14.2000 7:35 AM, Wandered Inn typed: =======
>
>>>     What would Windows possibly look like if Apple had won? Something
>>> like Microsoft BoB, or perhaps little more than the old DOS shell
>>> programs? If Microsoft had to come up with its own interface, Windows
>>> would have been a failure.
>>
>> There are those of us who believe it is still a failure.  Unfortunately,
>> it's a very successful failure.
>
>     I meant a failure in every way, both technically AND monetarily.

Not to mention more important ways....

    ``In short, the major paradigms that underlay most of today's
      interfaces, plus many other methods and details not mentioned in
      this summary, are far from helpful to good human-machine
      interaction. Available interface building tools invariably embody
      these ineffective paradigms and methods, and condemn those who use
      them to create interfaces that do not advance the state of the art.''
      -- Macintosh creator Jef Raskin, in summary of his book _The Humane
         Interface_ at <http://www.jefraskin.com/summary_of_thi.html>.

Dan Strychalski