{"id":41563,"date":"2003-12-09T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/12\/09\/scobles-rant-on-ui-defaults\/"},"modified":"2003-12-09T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T15:56:00","slug":"scobles-rant-on-ui-defaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031209-00\/?p=41563","title":{"rendered":"Scoble&#039;s rant on UI defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a> posted an entry in his <a href=\"http:\/\/longhornblogs.com\/scobleizer\/\">Longhorn         blog<\/a> on the subject of what the UI defaults should be. It sure has stirred up         a lot of controvery. I may pick at the remarks over the upcoming days, but for now <a href=\"http:\/\/longhornblogs.com\/scobleizer\/posts\/1679.aspx\">I         posted responses to two of the comments he kicked up<\/a>.      <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>We recently did a survey of users of all abilities. Beginners,     intermediates, experts: The number one complaint all of them had about the user interface     &#8211; 30% of all respondents mentioned this, evenly spread across all categories &#8211; was     &#8220;Too many icons on the desktop.&#8221; So it&#8217;s not just beginners. Experts also don&#8217;t like     the clutter. (Yes, I was surprised by the results, too.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Scoble posted an entry in his Longhorn blog on the subject of what the UI defaults should be. It sure has stirred up a lot of controvery. I may pick at the remarks over the upcoming days, but for now I posted responses to two of the comments he kicked up. We recently did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-41563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Robert Scoble posted an entry in his Longhorn blog on the subject of what the UI defaults should be. It sure has stirred up a lot of controvery. I may pick at the remarks over the upcoming days, but for now I posted responses to two of the comments he kicked up. We recently did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}