Win XP: What isn’t cool about this

A court-ordered ban of Windows XP may not be a bad idea altogether. But have

you tried that software? You should then you will know what it is all about.

Yikes! I don't like that user interface at all! Whereas recent documents can

be pulled up with a single click, it now needs two clicks with the Start menu

now being nothing but a box of many options that are far less intuitively

accessible than in the previous Windows generations.

It is obvious that the Windows XP is suffering from the same type of design

overkill that was so amusingly evident in BOB. Remember BOB? What I am referring

to is the desktop interface which Microsoft launched with fanfare at one of the

Comdex shows in Las Vegas. A desktop cluttered with graphical metaphors and

"intelligent" agents.

BOB never made it out of the incubation chamber, and neither should Windows

XP. All we really want is a more reliable OS. The present Windows desktop works

just fine in all its simplicity.

The XP desktop is irritatingly devout of the familiar icons like My

Documents, My Computer, My Network Neighborhood, etc. Sure you can create them

with XP, but the same items will still show up in the taskbar box that pops up.

I had expected that after dragging those items onto the desktop, they would be

off the taskbar. A major design flaw.