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| Windows Vista Presentation 01.02.2007 |
| Well, looks like yesterday Windows Vista was finally released. I thought it was already released, I guess the amount of beta's and RC versions that were out there confused me. So, I woke up yesterday at 6pm or something (having a really weird sleep times these days) and after looking a bit the news I saw somewhere someone talking about it. it was shocking, after all the time that they were talking about the new version, I didn't saw too many people talking about it, I mean, again, probably it was because all those leaked versions and there was no real news at that point. However, I was like, ok, let's see how Microsoft do the presentations nowadays. So, after checking the really bad usability of the flash on windows vista site, I went to see the video of Bill Gates presentation. And, oh boy... how can they be that bad? how can they be that ugly? how can they be that so boring? It starts with a rock band playing a reversion of a known tune. The singer is weird and is not always singing with the microphone on his mouth, so the sound goes on and off. Annoying! Then, a very American voice introduces the Bill Gates (hilarious how american that voice sound ;D). So, Bill start speaking and it gets even more hilarious, didn't realised the voice he has, looks like he is still on the puberty years. What a voice, what a voice! Whatever he says can't be taken seriously. I can't believe how he managed to do all what he did just with what his presence inspire to the viewer. Anyway, let's leave the little guy alone and concentrate on the show. Oh dear, who the hell is working on the style on Microsoft? Everything looks really wannabe. All those glows, looks like the found the glow option on Photoshop there! And now, just to see that I'm being serious with that I'm going to talk about a little detail that really looks bad but you don't usually see it. It's called Kerning. Check this screenshot out:  So, are you telling me that these guys spent a lot of years working on this new product, and probably spent a lot of money doing the slides for this presentation, and they didn't have time to fix the kerning? Whoever did that slide, he was able to put all the blending modes that photoshop offer, glow, shadows, and even inside gradient for the text. But, what about the kerning? In case you're wondering what Kerning is:  This is just another example of how Microsoft cares about little details. And there they are, talking about digital and showing how bad they use the digital resources. Kerning is something that you don't have time to fix, the fonts usually have the kerning fucked up (I don't know if that's because limitations of the format), so when you do any design, at the end you have to spend a bit of time fixing the kerning of the texts, specially if it's something for print. And you may say, that's just a little detail, it doesn't matter. Well, you think it doesn't matter, it matters for the designers, and it matters in your brain too, but you don't realise. Well, that's it by now, I'll keep watching the presentation. It's the second time I try to watch it, looks like they're not able to stream the video on a decent speed. And as I say the content/presentation is extremely boring. Hope to don't have to write anything else about it. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 01:16 |
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| SORRY! Is not that I don't care about what you have to say, of course I do, but they are speaking louder and I lost my patience :( |
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