Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: design

  • Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach the desktop, and pound it flat

    Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach the desktop, and pound it flat

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The revolutionary dogma of Metro is sweeping through the old Windows desktop, too, a new leak of Window 8 confirms. The leaked build, newer than the public release of a fortnight ago, abandons the 3D design elements introduced into Windows in 1990 for a resolutely two-dimensional world. The ‘legacy’ desktop in Windows 8 is denuded…

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  • Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism
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    Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The writer Toby Young tells a story about how the modern 100m race is run in primary schools. At the starting pistol, everyone runs like mad. At the 50m point, the fastest children stop and wait for the fatties to catch up. Then all the youngsters walk across the finishing line together, holding hands. I…

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  • Windows 8’s Metro means no gain for lots of pain

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    By far the most ill-judged design decision I can remember – Andrew The public preview of Windows 8 has won “rave reviews” according to the Daily Mail, the newspaper that claims to reflect Middle England and is proudly conservative in every sense of the word. The Mail, it’ll have you know, is a feisty opponent…

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  • Don’t shoot the Blackberry Messenger

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    BBM does things no web social network can do… it mirrors the flexibility of real life RIM’s fortunes have taken a catastrophic, Nokia-style nosedive in the past year – but it has a chance of pulling up. Admittedly, the odds are long, but this week the Canadian company began its fightback. It’s certainly right up…

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  • Five ways to rescue Windows Phone

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    Andrew Orlowski

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      Windows Phone might be the most impressive bit of software Microsoft has produced – but it isn’t setting the world on fire. The iPhone and Android go from strength to strength – the latter proliferating so widely even Google doesn’t know how many Android systems are out there. (It can’t count the Chinese forks…

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  • The fabulous Muvizu

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Tech startups that can truly be considered game-changers are rare – especially in Shoreditch. The more hype that the Silicon Roundabout “leisure startup” scene receives, the more painfully apparent it is that the emperor has no clothes – see these comments for example. Which is a pity, for less attention is paid to genuinely creative…

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