So if you thought Windows was bad for focus stealing…

· June 10, 2006 · General · 4 Comments

Vista is a dozen times worse – at least in beta 2. Along with a new frenzy for pop-to-front OK dialogs there are now numerous full-screen-focus-stealing alerts too.

Windows Vista may have the ability to multi-task, but its users don't get any such luxury =(

This will, no doubt, be the new mechanism of choice for people to screw with your Windows experience.

Its very pretty… There are some cool seeming changes. But I'm going to say no to this new Prince of Focus (theft).

4 Comments

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith June 10, 2006 at 3:59 pm

This is the feedback I submitted for Vista:

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MULTITASK WHEN I CANNOT PREDICT WHAT WINDOW MY NEXT KEYPRESS OR MOUSE INPUT WILL GO TO?

*Please*, for the love of God, mandate that your Vista developers have an application running on their workstations which periodically displays one of their pop-up dialogs, complete with randomly selected accelerator keys for things like “Res&tart my computer Now” and “Reboot &now” and “Reboot m&e right now!”

They will come up with a better solution than having every god damned pop-up take focus or lock out the screen in a matter of days.

With the new frenzy of pop-ups and new full-screen focus theft, Vista Beta 2 is the *worst* UI experience I’ve had since Windows 3.11, and the elegance and beauty of the rest of the interface just make that all the more jarring.

eigenman June 10, 2006 at 10:03 pm

sounds like the barracks all of a sudden ;]

Marneus June 11, 2006 at 6:36 am

If Google released right now a 64 bit SO, it would be the end of Windows.

Juuba June 15, 2006 at 2:27 am

Speaking of Vista Beta2..

I haven’t been able to make ww2.exe run on Vista.
Is there a general problem or is it just my setup?

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