It’s been brought to my attention that this site doesn’t work too well in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. My official stance on the matter? I could not care less.
I simply refuse to waste any more time dealing with Microsoft’s issues. They broke it, they can fix it. minning.de looks fine in all modern browsers and that’s good enough as far as I’m concerned.
So people tell me to give IE8 a try because it’s apparently much improved — no. I don’t care. I’ve had enough of Microsoft’s failure to comply with 10-year-old standards and I’m not interested in whether they have finally caught up with the rest of the pack.
Same thing with Windows 7. After the hideous, bloated mess that is Vista, I am not giving a Microsoft OS another chance. They clearly have other priorities than what I am looking for in an operating system.
The main thing that bothered me about Vista was that it looked like they let a bunch of amateur WindowBlinds themers run wild with the interface. How am I supposed to perform accurate color corrections when I’m blinded by the flashy GUI? I quite intentionally didn’t set up my workplace to be a translucent, turquoise Fisher-Price environment and I’d prefer my computer desktop to reflect that choice. Just stay out of my way, OS!
In the eternal words of Weird Al Yankovic: “Poke out my eyes, man!”
Apparently Microsoft has a vastly different opinion there as they somehow inexplicably managed to make the interface look even more garish and tacky in Windows 7. Words fail me.
Now I’m definitely not a huge Apple fan — in fact the only time I turn on my Mac is to compile software. But I must hand it to them: At least their stuff looks professional and not like it’s aiming to woo preschoolers.
