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Wow, that’s even more frustrating considering it’s conflating an unfashionable UI (which I’d argue is a good thing, since all modern UI trends are towards slick, minimalism-worshiping messes which hide everything from users) and old, provably-flawed technological foundations (like a 16-bit system without things like filesystem access control or memory protection).

I knew this story was false immediately though because no company ever even in 1993 had production server systems which ran a desktop OS like Win 3.1. It just wasn’t up to the task. They would have used NT if anything.

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http://www3.alpa.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=IO7kd%2Bfm2Do... shows the system as of 2020. To the parent’s point, it’s actually quite a reasonable UX, with colored outputs, filter banks, and just enough abbreviations and whitespace to balance density with intuitiveness.

But that doesn’t mean this is the only modern design system that meets those requirements. And conflating all modern UI with consumer design trends is an equally frustratingly broad statement.

OK, this is definitely unfashionable looking if your main exposure to apps is the latest doodah on your phone that was literally updated yesterday.

Very standard looking legacy Win32 looking app. Which, admittedly, would have probably look very similar had it been on Windows 3, but is probably running on LTSC Windows 10 or something in reality.

Doesn't look Microsoft at all to me, just colored to mimic XP. Java on some Unix?

Page 7 (as labeled) of the slides. The tabs and checkboxes layout have a distinctly Win 9x era look/feel. I do agree that it's missing an obvious menu, and the theme for the window decorations reminds me of win 3.1, but that was probably an option for software of that era just as it is in this if someone pushes hard enough.

Perhaps you just aren't old enough? It looks very Windows 95 to me.

Age has nothing to do with it, the interface just doesn't look like Windows 95.

The button shapes, minimize/close window buttons, the titlebar are all looking wrong for Windows 95.

It looks significantly more like Swing, but then the buttons don't match that either.

It looks like every single hospital or car rental software I have managed to peek.

It's not old-fashioned, it is _timeless_ B)

Link worked for me but took a long time to load. It just seems like their server is overloaded.

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Windows 95 is an "unfashionable" OS which has not received any security updates since 2001.

Yes and the fact that my software’s UI looks like Windows 95 makes it vulnerable to all the same security vulnerabilities.

The systems don’t run on W95, they look like W95

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