gui in comment and analysis
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment My formative computing years with the GUI were with Windows 3.1 and 95. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Mac advocates do the same, of course. [17 Apr 2008]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment Also Windows is not just an operating system - it is a GUI environment. Will Linux ever be a major player on the desktop? Andy McCue hears from IT chiefs - who, for the most part, answered with a resounding 'no'. [08 Nov 2006]
Minority Report: The Apple gear I want for Christmas is...
Comment Ten years after the launch of the Mac and the first commercially successful GUI, Apple committed to a radical overhaul of its crown jewels - the Mac's operating system. Seb Janacek rounds up the nominees - then leaves it to you to vote. [07 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.11.05
Round-Up You might of course start by building on a ruggedly dependable Unix core and then put a beautifully intuitive and user-friendly GUI on top. "What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of... [11 Nov 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: I'm toast
Comment Unless, god forbid, we have GUI designers moving into the appliance market. As an engineer I have a fairly sanguine attitude toward technology. All I ask is that it affords me some advantage in a straightforward and easy manner. [11 Aug 2005]
Open source: Where the LAMP stacks burn brightest
Comment PHP proved to be an excellent choice because of the wide variety of people that we can have working on the GUI aspect of the website," he says. The LAMP stack is gaining acceptance with businesses but does it have what it takes to overtake its... [29 Jun 2005]
Minority Report: Jef Raskin and the Mac revolution
Comment In a 2004 interview with MacUser magazine, Raskin scorned the much-vaunted OSX GUI, claiming that Apple's iterative approach of adding more and more features to the cat-themed OS was woefully misguided and advocated a return to first principles of... [03 Mar 2005]
Leader: Innovation doesn't always equal financial success
Leader The company may get credit where it doesn't always deserve it - copying the GUI from the copier company, anyone? The silicon.com mailbag has filled up over the past 24 hours with reader responses to a story we ran yesterday quoting the views of... [18 Jan 2005]
Q&A: What will be at the centre of the digital home?
Comment It must be independent, one that's easy to use, with a very good GUI and remote control. D-Link Systems' mooted path to digital nirvana throws a spanner in the works for computer makers and consumer electronics giants. [17 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Medieval historians bite back
Comment PARC was where the notion of the graphical user interface - GUI - took shape and where object orientation became a developed idea. Here he continues to question how the old affects the new in technology. [02 Mar 2004]
Apple bytes: The Mac at 20
Comment The industry myth has it that Jobs and his colleagues on the Macintosh project surreptitiously visited PARC and took the GUI concept for themselves. Apple's initial offering, the 128K Macintosh, heralded the first popular graphical user interface... [23 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Intelligent machines
Comment And hopefully they will take away the tyranny of the GUI. So why does he feel the end user experience hasn't changed enough recently - and nor is it about to? Every now and again the IT industry seems to hit a lull where nothing much exciting seems... [17 Apr 2003]
Microsoft's big idea: Why .NET matters
Comment Web services will really change the way applications are perceived, and will end up being as fundamental a shift as the GUI," he said. Microsoft has staked its future on an all-encompassing vision of integrated web services. [03 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Cute C&W, that elusive Linux desktop and Proxicom's suitors
Comment The first stage of development was to come up with a GUI that would cover the file system and the graphical shell. Coverage of telecoms in recent weeks has centred on that old stalwart, BT. Hardly surprising given the recent turmoil of appointing a... [21 May 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Ageism, ASPs and the GUI revolution
Comment Even Microsoft realises we need a new GUI A Microsoft VP called for a 'GUI revolution' this week (http://www.silicon.com/a40244 ). Wake up while there is still a little something behind the GUI. The GUI interface has complicated the PC beyond all... [20 Oct 2000]
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