Microsoft Don’t Know Jack About UI Design

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 07/17/2008 - 19:30

I laughed out loud when I saw this headline on the ars technica Web site: “Monkey see, monkey do: Microsoft launches mobile app site.” It’s so typical of Microsoft in recent years to desperately emulate companies it perceives as its competitors, even at the expense of its own embarrassment.

The move was in response, the article surmised, to Apple’s launch of App Store, a site for downloading iPhone apps through iTunes.

It’s beautiful, polished, intuitive and complete—classically Apple. Microsoft’s site,...

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