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Comment by allears | Hacker News Reader

Why, oh why, must MS invent a new UI for every version? They all turn out half-baked, and are never around long enough to get completely debugged and polished.

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Because new batch of PMs are joining and they all have promotion cycles they want to do well at

Can we get an amendment to the US Constitution banning promotion-driven-development? Seriously, I feel like that would improve by 2x the output of the US economy.

Rest assured that, for this one, it’s a worldwide thing.

I think about how great the UI could be if they just kept iterating the original instead of coming up with new shit every time and it makes me mad. It's been a lost decade in UI design for Windows and it's only become worse.

Yeah, it looks like a pandemic. Someone comes with a terrible UI (Google's material design) and next you look everybody takes it as the future.

Which is a bit of a shame IMO. I'm a bit of an apologist for windows 8.1 and the 'Start Screen', even if the Store and WinUI apps were kinda gross.

Sure, the start screen was a whole screen rather than a bar. But it was easy enough to organize into something useful, as opposed to the Win10 start menu which just feels too busy with a bunch of small tiles littering the screen.

I hated the 8.1 start screen, but I think even that could have been turned into something really cool and useful. The fact that they never iterated on that either is just mind-boggling. Only a company as entrenched and wealthy as Microsoft can afford to expend that much effort and then throw it all out a few years later, just to start over from scratch again.

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