Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> My WindowsME system worked fine. It was almost indistinguishable from 
> 98. I think it had the compressed folders feature, which is present in 
> Windows XP. But that was about it.

  You forgot one of the most braindead ideas that has ever come from
Microsoft: Adaptive menus.

  I still can't understand why *anyone* could think that menus whose
contents change during time is a good idea. One of the most basic
principles of GUI design is that everything should work consistently
and always the same way. Some functionality might change depending on
context, but even there you shouldn't go to extremes. What is braindead
about the adaptive menus is that they contents don't change depending on
the context, they can change even during identical operations.

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                                                          - Warp

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