This is what they took from us.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is Microsoft BOB

  Here’s a good demo video without any talking or people mugging for the camera, just the interface: youtu.be/VrsIsf8PQJY

  Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems, supplanting the Windows Program Manager. The program was released on March 10, 1995, and discontinued in early 1996.

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  • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh my god, it’s like Clippy but for an entire operating system

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t know whether I remember right, but I think the product manager for Bob was the future Melinda Gates. She married Bill when Bob was close to completion.

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• AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For reference, this is Microsoft Bob running inside a virtual machine. For an interactive online thingy (not the whole application), see

  • wuffs.org/bob/actors.html
  • wuffs.org/bob/room.html

  Here’s a Bob inspirited 3D online version: pangalactic.github.io/bob3js/

  You can find more on YouTube or whatever. Here a link to virtualbox settings and downloads if you want to run it yourself.

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• mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  pets dog

  god damn, Windows 7 was so damn cool. It looked real nice and worked quite well, at least for me

  bursts in tears

  I want my good old life back !

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• eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a UX designer, I, by no means, Miss Skimm as a design ideology. I was very glad to see it go.

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  • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well, it is coming back, fast fashion UI churning as always

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think a Bob window manager for Linux would be hilarious.

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  BOB was an abomination. I hope they took it to hell.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was like someone in Redmond was trying to make the most condescending desktop environment possible. “I want it to shove Saturday Evening Post in between the user and Windows 3.1.”

    Bob is what Satan uses.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At the time they were going with the idea that computer were too complicated for “regular people” and that they needed a very dumbed down interface to reach the masses. It was released at the same time as Windows 95, but it really feels like it was made for Windows 3.1, which it also supported. It was just such an insultingly bad product.

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• BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great calendar date

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