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Comment Parkinson's Law of Triviality strikes again? (Score 1) 1040

by miawuascht on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:57AM (#37996436) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality . Everyone seems to be an expert in the field of UI, although the underlying concepts are not understood. This combined with people reluctant to change create a formidable setup for bitching about things without coming up with a better alternative.

Comment X Session Manager as prior art? (Score 1) 404

by miawuascht on Thursday September 02, 2010 @06:20AM (#33447252) Attached to: Microsoft Patents OS Shutdown

I'm wondering how much of the X Session Manager functionality is prior art?

Comment Re:Microsoft develops software for Austrian kinder (Score 1) 162

by miawuascht on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @12:51PM (#23654853) Attached to: Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay

English translation of the relevant part of the web page linked to in the previous post:

In the following months the goal is to educate the children of 75 workplace nurseries in using the German language in a fun and playful way. "Microsoft therefore ordered and paid the development of the software 'Schlaumäuse' and donates the software to the nurseries." says Mr. Schweiger.

Mr. Schweiger is the CEO of Microsoft Austria.

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