Comment Re:Wiser MS? (Score 1) 154
well if you for some stupid reason decide to make clickable/touchable elements look like everything else, I guess it makes sense to make them upper case. or perhaps they were too small for fingers so somebody just uppercased them to make them bigger in 10 secs.
which actually is the real problem with their zune derived ui style. it's not immediately obvious from screen to screen what is clickable and what is not and in some cases(in windows 8.1 install sequence of all places!) it's not immediately obvious that a hyperlink style button will actually take you to next alternate screen in the flow(it should be a bordered button like the other choice in the flow).
this is even worse on touch displays where you can't even mouseover.
its like they fired their ui experts after windows 2K, really, and hired some photoshopper guys after that, without giving the guidelines to them. those guys completely started ignoring the guidelines in their quest for changing everything for no reason at all - and ballmer went ahead with the win8 debacle of zunefest proportions because he thought he could get 30% of every photoshop license sold.