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Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

IVANOVIC — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:18:10 -0000

YEAH IT DOES LOOK LIKE WINDOWS, AND THATS WHY IT SUCKS

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

bbbbb — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:44:38 -0000

@chris: It's the translation applet. Search for it under applications by facebook.

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Chris — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:37:16 -0000

Whats the Globe on the bottom right next to your buddy list :)

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Jamie Ellis — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:58:49 -0000

just add folders to the application list (either developer/ publisher name e,g, slide or by category. (and facebook needs to revamp the categories if so - more of them and also

may as well add a aol US style approach (get the 3 main competitors (mail) and provide links (they could be in a fb iframe lol

this (if it starts going web os and live mesh (that going the (remote os way and also have sync on devices over the place) could make a exciting future

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Erik Giberti — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:18:47 -0000

Too bad they didn't go with Apple's UI on this one. Perhaps MySpace will go this route to differentiate themselves from the last Facebook style navigation they had ripped off.

Erik <-Apple Fanboy

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

gruen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:51:52 -0000

Now does Microsoft over-purchasing Facebook shares make sense to anyone else?

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

mikemonaco — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:36:30 -0000

I called it

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Premnath Kudva — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:55:49 -0000

Hah! Now that you say it:-)

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

chris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:27:23 -0000

Disappointing. Wasn't the promise of Web 2.0 to be open and untethered? Looks like Facebook is not becoming the new Windows, but the new AOL. How ironic. AOL (as it once existed) is no more because it failed to adapt to the new online paradigm shift, and yet Facebook seems intent on its regression.

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Premnath Kudva — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:26:02 -0000

Heh! Right! And it happened all of sudden, with a helpful icon to tell you what it did:-)

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

shervin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:56:07 -0000

everything old is new again. Check out my screenshots from my startup, WebOS, when I was 22. It's in my fb profile. -Shervin

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

daviscollins — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:18:26 -0000

@Revanth R

I totally agree with you. I think that people need to learn that basically everything is going to change, especially on the internet, and the only thing you can do is just learn to deal with it, and you will probably learn to like it more.

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

lalunablanca — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:17 -0000

Revanth R - What about the perspective that there's so much else changing all the time, why do my apps have to change too? We all don't want chaos and change everywhere.

On the similarities, nice start. It even goes as far as to continue doing things that make no sense (in classic Outlook tradition), like show me events that I already said I wasn't attending. Errgggg.. Okay, I do secretly which the events I "accept" on FB would get tossed to my Outlook. It's almost 2009 and I still have to go create the event in my Outlook. tisk.

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

Revanth R — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:20:24 -0000

Considering the backlash is just getting started, another similarity to Windows you forgot to mention is that the new design=Vista version of Facebook. It is totally ridiculous how people cling onto old things and resist change. Let's face it, life itself is a constant progression of change. If you can't cope with something as change like this, then how are people going to deal with the non-facebook issues in daily life?

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

John Wooton — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:18:34 -0000

Wow... I didn't even notice it, but you are right. It does look like Windows

Re: Facebook Duplicates Microsoft Windows With New Design, Becomes the Web OS

acafourek — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:13:37 -0000

Well it does have squared corners so it is leaving the Web 2.0-It-Has-To-have-Rounded-Corners-And-Be-Super-Shiny mantra behind for a bit of Windows 98-esque design influence!