Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Sunday, June 12, 2005

WinServer Vs. Linux Study Generates Fire

Is usability subjective? Some think so ...

"Microsoft says it was only trying to do a service, but Linux backers scorn comparison with Windows

The Linux community has trashed a Microsoft Canada-funded usability comparison of Windows Server and two distributions of the open source operating system, calling the study done by one of its biggest Canadian partners unfair.

"Linux, from the user interface, from the configuration and the administration point of view definitely has a lot of ground to make up," acknowledges Larry Karnis, president of Applications Enhancements, a Brampton, Ont. Linux systems integrator.

But the study overseen by Compugen Inc. - a major Microsoft partner - made no comparison of what he says is Linux's superior reliability."   continued ...   (Via RedNova News)

Windows Server - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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