@tom yeah they looked cool tbh
a shame they're dead 😔
@sc like everything good ms ever made. only their garbage tech remains
@tom i still miss longhorn
longhorn is Peak Computer UI Aesthetic tbh
@sc my fav ms ui era was zune-metro. all those gradients and textures were so pretty...
@tom i don't blame you, to be honest. that was the CLOSEST MS ever got to making Metro look cool
@sc I still like WP7/Win8 metro a lot but it feels more sterile and boring
@sc That color-dependent QR code thing?
@Zero_Democracy Yes.
Also it didn't HAVE to be color-dependent, actually. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090109/hacking-microsoft-tags-hccb-works-monochrome-too/
@sc Oh, huh, so they were *the* polygonal QR code. I thought they were a riff on them.
@sc MS is so weird. They get like 75% of the way through doing something cool and then never stick the landing.
@Zero_Democracy
see also:
Windows XP Tablet PCs
Windows Vista
Windows Longhorn
Windows Phone
Windows 8
@sc The Kin phone is one of my favorite examples. They were really close to releasing an inexpensive smartphone geared for social media use in 2010... and then completely mismanaged the software side of it because the original project manager didn't "believe" in it enough.
@sc those ruled tbqh