cool MS research project (3d desktop)

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CTho9305

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link (Sun's LookingGlass reminded me of this)

edit: to watch the video, use the link in the second sentence or left menu. The first one doesn't work.
 
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notfred

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It's funny how bad the MS research web page looks :)

I'm downloading the video now.
 
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Rogue

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The page looks like it was done with Frontpage and uses a default design theme too. I guess if you're that into research and development, you don't care about your presentation as much as your end result though.
 
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Descartes

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Originally posted by: notfred
It's funny how bad the MS research web page looks :)

I'm downloading the video now.
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How many research-oriented sites are aesthetically palatable? If you're looking for such content it's usually for mental candy (hmm), not eye candy. Look at MIT's sites for example; I think even Sparta would be offended by its simplicity.
 
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On second glance, this is also from 1999 which is going on 5 years ago too.
 
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notfred

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: notfred
It's funny how bad the MS research web page looks :)

I'm downloading the video now.
Click to expand...

How many research-oriented sites are aesthetically palatable? If you're looking for such content it's usually for mental candy (hmm), not eye candy. Look at MIT's sites for example; I think even Sparta would be offended by its simplicity.
Click to expand...

I realize that most research pages aren't particularly great looking, but it just seems funnier coming from MS than, say, a university.
 
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Stratum9

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First Microsoft dumbs down the Windows GUI by making it look as though it were manufactured by Fisher Price with a wallpaper that looks like a screen cap of a Teletubbies episode and appropriately entitled "Bliss."

Now they want us to interface with our files and programs by moving around virtual doll houses.

Hmmm, I wonder if Bill Gates is really Captain Kangaroo in disguise....

BTW: I've used this concept before in website architectures and on my desktop with shell replacements like Talisman. I didn't like it. Personally I'd prefer just plain old text links and whatnot rather than even the current iconic method.
 
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Descartes

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Originally posted by: Stratum9
First Microsoft dumbs down the Windows GUI by making it look as though it were manufactured by Fisher Price with a wallpaper that looks like a screen cap of a Teletubbies episode and appropriately entitled "Bliss."

Now they want us to interface with our files and programs by moving around virtual doll houses.

Hmmm, I wonder if Bill Gates is really Captain Kangaroo in disguise....

BTW: I've used this concept before in website architectures and on my desktop with shell replacements like Talisman. I didn't like it. Personally I'd prefer just plain old text links and whatnot rather than even the current iconic method.
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Read the research. They're not catering to the intuitions of computer pundits; rather, those who do not understand (nor do they care) about learning the idioms of GUIs. The more a computer feels like an extension of the way your mind works the better. A lot of people have to enlist in significant mental gymnastics just to use a computer, and some simply never catch on. It's hard to fathom for most of us, but look where we are discussing this. I wouldn't like it, but if cognitive psychologists say that people will find this more intuitive, I'm inclined to believe them.
 
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gopunk

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Originally posted by: Stratum9
First Microsoft dumbs down the Windows GUI by making it look as though it were manufactured by Fisher Price with a wallpaper that looks like a screen cap of a Teletubbies episode and appropriately entitled "Bliss."

Now they want us to interface with our files and programs by moving around virtual doll houses.

Hmmm, I wonder if Bill Gates is really Captain Kangaroo in disguise....

BTW: I've used this concept before in website architectures and on my desktop with shell replacements like Talisman. I didn't like it. Personally I'd prefer just plain old text links and whatnot rather than even the current iconic method.
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there's a reason it's called "research" and not "product development"
 
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gopunk

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: Descartes
Originally posted by: notfred
It's funny how bad the MS research web page looks :)

I'm downloading the video now.
Click to expand...

How many research-oriented sites are aesthetically palatable? If you're looking for such content it's usually for mental candy (hmm), not eye candy. Look at MIT's sites for example; I think even Sparta would be offended by its simplicity.
Click to expand...

I realize that most research pages aren't particularly great looking, but it just seems funnier coming from MS than, say, a university.
Click to expand...

well, a lot of the people working for MS research would have been working in academia... so it's not that different.
 
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I remember Packard Bell packaging their computer with this. I had this stupid little thing where you could go into a room and pick whatever you wanted to play as well as going into the Windows 3.1 shell.
 
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InlineFive

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Good grief both the page and the desktop are awful. It's like walking around in a Quake3 mod to access My Documents, etc. :(
 
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