Agh! My eyes!

[khaosworks]

Tried installing Windows XP Professional on Virtual PC, and this is the result.

Christ Almighty, the color scheme alone could halt a pack of stampeding hippopotami in their tracks at fifty yards. The icons are kiddified, and make it look like something out of McDonaldland. It's like someone wanted to do OS X's Aqua interface but was on acid while doing it, and hence made a horribly wrong turn somewhere just before Tasteville. It's just so... wrong.

I need to go flush my eyes out now. Excuse me.

1:00 a.m. - edited for a slightly better screenshot to show off Aqua's window button colors

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree about the McDonaldland look. Esp with the clouds and grass. It's gross with a capital G!

Actually, it's not that bad IF you've always been a windows user and never set your eyes on the personification of beauty and class that is OSX. But to a Mac user, this is just so wrong.

Proud to be a Mac user,
Elaine (http://www.envy.nu/nnw)

[cellio]

Bletch! That is truly ghastly.

[kyrielle]

Of course, it's easy to turn it back to the functional look of classic Windows, or something in between. I think the default wallpaper annoys me most of all. (That and the new start menu, but the new start menu became classic about, oh, .5 seconds after I got my hands on it. ;)

[dietbubba.livejournal.com]

It isn't that bad. And besides, you have people doing themes for it already. Just go and download one. I did.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

That's not really the point, is it? Why have such a puke-inducing default theme to begin with? Hell, classic Windows was bland, but at least it didn't leave me feeling like I accidentally sat on the color and tint controls on the remote. It's like saying, "Your new car only comes in Paisley, Mr Smith, but you can repaint."

I'll look for those themes - the purpose of me loading up XP in Virtual PC to begin with was to see what the fuss was about before loading it up on my own PC. This is not a good start to the evaluation.

Re:

[dietbubba.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't think that the default is that bad. And you can always use either the silver or olive (which IS that bad).

[(Anonymous)]

It's more Teletubbyland than McDonaldland. The tetrachromatic blue-green-yellow-red colour scheme that Microsoft is using brings to mind the colours of the Teletubbies themselves. McDonald's corporate colours are yellow and red only.

Also, the landscape that is the desktop picture is for all practical purposes indistinguishable from the Teletubbies set. The grass can be seen rising to a hill, or mound. If you close the windows, is the Tubbytronic Superdome revealed?

--
keith lim keithlim@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~keithlim

WIndoze under (or without) Virtual PC

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the sanity check. I needed that!

--Lynn
(fellow Mac enthusiast)