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Re: Versionflation

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Versionflation
Date	2026-02-05 08:26 -0800
Organization	A place where nothing fits quite right
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 09:03:20 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> > Windows 8 was such a radical shift for MS at the time. I remember
> > when they first unveiled that Start screen and thinking that they’ve
> > designed this operating system for tablets and touch screens and
> > never thought of the desktop, which was their core market back then
> > ...  
> 
> The irony being, it wasn’t all that great as a mobile interface
> either.

As with GNOME 3, they made all kinds of bizarre alterations to the
desktop experience as concessions to what they imagined mobile users
would want, but what mobile users *actually* wanted was something like
iOS which was designed from the outset to match the capabilities of the
platform. As a result, they ended up with a freakish Fiji mermaid of a
GUI that made *nobody* happy. And, like GNOME Team, they responded to
popular outcry by insisting that Actually This Makes Total Sense And
You Just Don't Get It...only to walk back their most egregious idiocies
a few years later with the release of Win10, tee hee hee.

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              Re: Versionflation Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-05 09:03 +0000
                Re: Versionflation John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-02-05 08:26 -0800
                Re: Versionflation Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-02-05 10:43 -0700
                Re: Versionflation John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-02-05 10:09 -0800
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                Re: Versionflation ~pasnec-salmyr <pasnec-salmyr@email.invalid> - 2026-02-06 00:07 +0000
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                Re: Versionflation Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2026-02-07 21:48 +0000
                Re: Versionflation Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-09 12:32 +0000
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      Re: Versionflation Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-01-17 06:53 -0500
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