Comments on: The UX enthusiast site to read – uxevangelist.net

By: marcpodi

marcpodi — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:39:03 +0000

they just showed off chocolates but delivered candies. )

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:45:11 +0000

i agree with tino – the new live software does a bit look as its designed from another company than microsoft. they look nice, but different.

nevertheless, excellent products and i enjoy them very much. more of those please!

By: tino

tino — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:24:17 +0000

@mrmckeb: Yeah, even the newest Windows Live “Wave 2″ software looks really ugly. It feels like a third party company tried to copy Vista’s style. Imagine what they could have done with WPF in Messenger and Photo Gallery.

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:58:55 +0000

Indeed – and I’d say it will. I am quite surprised the Windows Live team haven’t made a WPF messenger or another Live app in WPF. Lets wait and see…

By: Insomniac

Insomniac — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56:25 +0000

Yeah thats what i think. And thats probably why Longhorn had the reset.
You cant build something when you haven’t finalized the foundations that you are building it on.

So i hope to see Windows 7 really make a lot of use with it all.

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:47:31 +0000

@Imsomniac

That’s a valid point. I’m surprised Microsoft didn’t use WPF at all in any of their Vista apps… not even Movie Maker or Photo Gallery… I think that would have been a great way to show off WPF. But then I guess WPF wasn’t ready early enough?

By: Insomniac

Insomniac — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:29:27 +0000

I think it’s because back in the day the shell was using Avalon (WPF). It could have file animations and 3d-ish views in Explorer etc.

But explorer in Vista isnt using WPF at all.
I’m not saying you NEED WPF to do such things. But it appeared to be the easiest way of implementing it.

Also as we know, longhorn was using the pillars to power itself.
While Vista really just offers them for developers to build on top of.

Windows ver 7 should really start using these technologies that Vista introduced but doesn’t really use.

I just hope that Windows 7 has far better search and organize functions. Basically WinFS’s with a new name. Or at the very least make Unified Data stores. E.g. Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Gallery and Explorer all would write there meta data to the same place.

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:41:43 +0000

Phodeo is awesome… why didn’t it get implemented??? Probably because they were trying to appease the “Vista needs too much power” crowd, also known as the “I bought this computer for Windows 95, why shouldn’t I be able to still use it?” crowd.

By: Scott Kingery

Scott Kingery — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:24:15 +0000

Cool site I’ll subscribe. You might want to tell Stephen that his frame breaks RSS autodiscovery.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:14:21 +0000

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