WindowsXP ads..stop the horror!

[mfhaque]

ok, so far i seen two windowsxp ads (which looks really crappy, they need real graphic artists) on the metro trains, saw one in a magazine and couple on public buses. make it stop!!!!!!!

[uoba]

machine is a' Rollin'!!

[ulrik]

hey, looking at those ads is nothing compared to using it! I had to repair a windows XP system a few days back (in my past, I used to be a PC freak....what? I needed the money and I was young!)....SO MANY COLOURS!

Blue and Green! Who would pair blue and green? And if you fire up the start menu (without changing any prefs to disable all this fuck) it takes up HALF the screen on a 1024 res! HALF THE SCREEN OF COLOURFULL HORROR!
In the explorer, there is no way NOT to click those "Search" icons, they are so freaking big....it's like "hey, apple now has 256x256 32 bit icons....let's make ours 512x512"...the look of the system feels like a two days old chewing gum....arg....Microsoft, you are not producing bad OS's, they are alright (ok, WinME is not), Win2K is even good, (of course nothing comes close to MacOS) but what have you done with this? Go visit the guys making the Office v.X, they have a sense for style! The Office v.X Icons are the some of the best I've seen for a long time! But XP is just so baaah...

[lelereb]

XP seems designed by a moronic child.
However this is a Widow$ users problem.

[uoba]

...should never be seen!!

Maybe there going for a sporty look, to make it seem faster!

[ulrik]

In the german language we say "blue and green dresses the pig"...rhymes in german

Make it seem faster? Then you have to give it acceleration-holes (hehe, only Simpsons-fans might get this one)

[mfhaque]

hehe all those colors...i wonder if they're bunch of hippies designing the system.

[fryke]

Hmm... Actually they designed a sort of silverish theme that doesn't look that bad even. I think they HAD to revamp the appearance of the OS, since every OS after Windows 95 basically looked the same. What is the main selling point of XP, now that Win2K is so stable? (It IS stable, believe me.) Nobody would pay for upgrades if you can keep the old one that runs fine. So they had to do that. Even if most people change XP to have the old look after starting to hate the new one ... But XP also replaces 95, 98 and ME, so THAT'S where the new look makes some sense, for those are the gamers and the chewing gum look fanatics. They should have made the professional version look a bit better though, like Apple did with Mac OS X Server 10.x (Graphite is default there).