Re: Replacing Linux with Windows, based on *cost*?
"It's just so damn drab!"
MS attempts with their flat "modern" UI with an overly large number of tools icons in multiple bars across the top of the screen don't impress me much (as a certain Canadian chanteuse once sang) I'm talking about office and outlook here.
Icons were invented to reduce time spent on localising the OS and apps. And they keep changing in look and location at the whim of the designers in every release. Words in menus are usually quicker to find and understand. But MS seems to have reduced their language localisation team down to the bare minimum and so use pictures for everything. Using outlook or office these days (as an occasional user like me) is like trying to decipher a set of IKEA instructions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
