Splotch, Part 2

There is one other thing I want to mention about inconsistent user interface found in the latest version of Windows. People are always coming up with new designs, mostly they are just to tweaks to old designs that someone thought was cuter, better, more intuitive, cooler, more space-shippy, or something. Mostly they are just tweaks to old designs, new colors, rearrange the menus, change the icons, the sort of thing that automobile designers did back in the 50's and 60's. The underlying car didn't change much, but every year it got a flashy new package.
    The problem with software is nobody knows what is going to be a success, so people keep trying new things and occasionally someone hits on something that just goes wild, like Facebook, or Windows for that matter. I know I don't like the way Windows works, but I've gotten used to it. But who knows? Someone could come up with a new method that a lot of people will really like, but unless it finds its way out into the world, no one will ever know. So. What I suspect may have happened is that Microsoft decided to take a bunch of new ideas and dump them into a bunch of programs, load it all into Windows and dump it on the market and see what floats.

Part 1 here.