The cartoony style is visually easier to read and comprehend. The photorealistic icons drive me crazy.

I want all of my applications to be consistent. I want the same skin and set of, always visible, organized drop down menus. I DO NOT want less frequently used commands to be hidden and sure as hell don’t want a fully featured and usable menu system replaced with a limited set of commonly used commands turned into indistingushable icons on a bar or ribbon. Shortcut bars should ALWAYS be secondary to a menu system and should be customizable and hidable. and why can’t i get a music program that doesn’t look like it is going to fly into outer space (WMP, iTunes, my Creative drivers)? Just make the basic WMP style look like Access 2003 and offer skins for the rest of you.

I want my settings dialog boxes back. I don’t need a wizard to explain every little step along the way and turn a 3 click task into 25 clicks with multiple paragraph explinations, animations, and confirmations every step of the way.

I think it is a computer user’s RESPONSABILITY to learn the basics of how to use their computer, not for Microsoft to dumb down and slow down every task to meet the needs of the lowest common denominator. For example, user’s should know what a file system is and how it works, be cognisant about where they are saving their files, and know not to install obviously harmful programs from porn sites!

Wow! I think i made myself angry.

What most average people care about isn’t memory. We want to look at our pictures, surf the Internet, watch low-quality YouTube films, make Word documents, etc. These tasks are WAY less performance-demanding than playing the latest 3D MMORPG.

That’s why Aero exists. It’s pretty, yet friendly enough for average people. I don’t care how much RAM it uses up. I’m not using it all nonstop anyway.

Why does Classic exist? It’s for people like you, who need more power to do more powerful things.

I’m not on Linux because I like easy-to-use computers. I used a Linux once at a friend’s and was confused. So why not switch to Mac? I plan on it…when I can afford to. A Mac’d cost almost three times as much as the Vista laptop I’m using now.

To me, this is common sense. Pick what you feel like. Don’t demean other’s choices; they aren’t forcing you to use Aero, so don’t try to force them to use Linux.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w

Five years and this is thew best Redmond can come up with? pathetic.

RTFM