Post by hydrophilic on Oct 1, 2015 16:47:11 GMT
This problem seemed to start around Win 2K / XP, and has become progressively worse.
Well, my opinion, feel free to flame me / disagree!
It use to work, back in 1990s... like in Win 3.1 or Win'95...
You click on an icon to open app, and the mouse (momentarily) changes into a little "hour glass"
Presumably a metaphor for "it will take a little time (a few seconds). After a few seconds, the app would open, and the mouse would return to normal.
Fast forward 20 years to 2015 and Win 7/8/10... since CPUs (and RAM) are about 100 to 1000 times faster, this should (my opinion) never happen.
But it does happen... well recently MS has replaced the "hour glass" with a little "spinner". Different graphics, same scenario.
Now, even if you disagree with my 100 (or 1000) times faster argument (never should happen today), it does happen today... and worse, it is BROKEN!!!
Often (and I know I am not the only one), I'll click an icon and get the little "hour glass"/"spinner" which appears for a second or two... but then reverts to the normal "arrow" mouse pointer. Like the OS failed to open the app... So I click the icon again, get the "glass"/"spinner" for another second or two, and then the "arrow" pointer re-appears (as if the OS failed again). Then I click on the app-icon a third time (try, try, try), get the "glass"/"spinner" for a second... and then suddenly BOOM! You have 3 instances of your chosen app opened at once!
Can you say FAIL? Good, I knew you could
I realize companies like MS, HP, etc. are constantly working to create software for NEW hardware.
But come on! The "hour glass" / "spinner" is very simple OS technology... 20 years old now.
In my opinion, it should work flawlessly (bullet-proof) after 20 years of development.
The sad fact is, after 20 years, Microsoft is still pushing broken glass.
(I have my biases, so I could be missing something.... am I wrong? did I miss something? please comment... thanks!)
Well, my opinion, feel free to flame me / disagree!
It use to work, back in 1990s... like in Win 3.1 or Win'95...
You click on an icon to open app, and the mouse (momentarily) changes into a little "hour glass"
Presumably a metaphor for "it will take a little time (a few seconds). After a few seconds, the app would open, and the mouse would return to normal.
Fast forward 20 years to 2015 and Win 7/8/10... since CPUs (and RAM) are about 100 to 1000 times faster, this should (my opinion) never happen.
But it does happen... well recently MS has replaced the "hour glass" with a little "spinner". Different graphics, same scenario.
Now, even if you disagree with my 100 (or 1000) times faster argument (never should happen today), it does happen today... and worse, it is BROKEN!!!
Often (and I know I am not the only one), I'll click an icon and get the little "hour glass"/"spinner" which appears for a second or two... but then reverts to the normal "arrow" mouse pointer. Like the OS failed to open the app... So I click the icon again, get the "glass"/"spinner" for another second or two, and then the "arrow" pointer re-appears (as if the OS failed again). Then I click on the app-icon a third time (try, try, try), get the "glass"/"spinner" for a second... and then suddenly BOOM! You have 3 instances of your chosen app opened at once!
Can you say FAIL? Good, I knew you could
I realize companies like MS, HP, etc. are constantly working to create software for NEW hardware.
But come on! The "hour glass" / "spinner" is very simple OS technology... 20 years old now.
In my opinion, it should work flawlessly (bullet-proof) after 20 years of development.
The sad fact is, after 20 years, Microsoft is still pushing broken glass.
(I have my biases, so I could be missing something.... am I wrong? did I miss something? please comment... thanks!)