Reply to post: Just more clickbait drivel..

Just more clickbait drivel..

Its obvious the author knows absolutely nothing about the end user software market. Its history. Or how it is developed. And its very obvious he has never actually worked in the business. Developing and selling end user application software to desktop users. Because if he actually had any relevant experience he would not have written something that was so bloody stupid on so many levels. Because 99% plus of the people who buy and use desktop application software are not like him. Or the people he talks about. Or the people who read TheReg for that matter.

Whenever I work on commercial skrinkwrap desktop application products for ISV's we have the ordinary end user always in mind. And how to make the best of the UX model for whichever target platform we are developing for. To make its as easy and straightforward as possible for them to get their work done. If you had any experience of the pre GUI application software, all command line and text menus, and the huge problems ordinary users had gaining even a basic grasp of a limited set of functionality, then you might start to comprehend what a huge leap forward GUI's were. And remain. Fire up Worstar2000 under a MS/DOS box emulator and see how far you get without reading the manual. Very carefully. Its a pretty big manual. After a week or two you might get the hang of it. With some hard work.

Just because some minute fraction of computer users prance around complaining about how GUIs offend their sensibilities, well, who cares. In the end user software market, which is what we are talking about, mass market desktop software, your opinions are utterly irrelevant. Because the only thing that matters is how easily ordinary users, our customers, can learn the subset of the functionality they need to get their work done as quickly as possibly. And GUI's have been a huge success for the last 38 years since the first mass market GUI was shipped. Its a user interaction model that works really well. For people who have to get work done.