This article quotes Jensen Harris... the guy responsible for Windows 8 UI, which was a disaster.
It's like walking into a room and forgetting why you had entered. At that point, maybe you return where you came from and see an unopened package. Then you remember: you were retrieving scissors.
When the motivating context is in front of you, it's easier to remember what your goal is.
Hitting a 2x2 pixel magic corner when not full screen and over a 100ms latency link is simply infuriating.
The special “Windows key” would similarly not make it through KVMs, iLO/DRAC, and most cloud consoles.
It was an exercise in frustration topped by only by this little pop up:
“Swipe here to view this notification.”
Okay, I’m swiping. Still swiping. It’s going to work any minute now…
I can't imagine a great designer like Jonny Ive (not that everything he did was perfect), sinking so low as to shit on Windows's start menu as he probably has bigger fish to fry.
Great people don't need attention from shitting on other people's work because they get enough recognition from the quality of their own work. Only the has-beens with over inflated egos do that.
I find modern Apple software UI/UX design to be really devoid of functionality, information density, etc. I'm not the only one with this opinion (just listen to any Accidental Tech Podcast episode where they talk about it).
It's however, really opinionated about being for listening to music and playing some games
The ribbon is part of the lamentable drift in Windows UI towards intentional dumbing down and not even allowing the power users to do what they could before -- see also the new Windows Settings menu...
Earlier you had Alt + f for file menu and the first letter of the command. But i think that was too easy.