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Windows Vista’s Personalization interface not as “clear” as other features

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Microsoft has endowed Vista with awesome new GUI and then made it more difficult to Windows Vista 1.jpgcustomize by making the Personalization interface awkward and inefficient.

I’ve been working with Windows Vista on a daily basis now for almost a month and for the most part, I’ve been impressed with everything I’ve encountered so far. Of course, the User Account Control dialog boxes can be a bit annoying, but I understand what they’re designed to do and so have accepted them as a necessary evil for protecting my system from the those black hats on the Internet intent on subverting my computer.

However, I’ve encountered an incongruity with the Windows Vista’s Personalization interface that seems to contradict the Clear part of Windows Vista’s Clear, Confident, Connected slogan. And, try as I might, I haven’t been able to reconcile this inconsistency in the same way that I’ve dealt with the omnipresent User Account Control dialog boxes. Microsoft has endowed Vista with awesome new GUI and then made it more difficult to customize by making the Personalization interface awkward and inefficient. It just doesn’t make sense! Windows Vista’s Personalization interface not as “clear” as other features

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