I'm a Software Developer living in Melbourne, Australia.
I graduated in 2005 from the University of Canterbury in Chirstchurch, New Zealand, where I studied a B.Com. in Information Systems & Computer Science.
Since graduating in 2005 I've worked on teams and projects of various sizes and using different technologies. These include Cost Control applications for the construction industry, CMS solutions tailored for online publishing and digital media as well as larger scale projects such as Internet Banking systems.
I'm a Microsoft Certified Application Developer and am a person who's very passionate about web technologies & software particularly in the Microsoft domain.
I enjoy blogging and I previously ran the Christchurch, NZ .NET user group.
With the latest release of the Windows Vista CTP build this week. I was doing some recap with some of the changes made in the history of windows and one of the things that I didnt pay much attention to lately is the Windows 'start' button. Most of you will probably know that the start button was a big talk within HCI for it's inconsistency with user actions - clicking a button called start to shut down - end - a computer ... etc. With a bit of search I found the following link with all the windows buttons from Windows 95 to Vista build 5259 (2 builds back I think) but the button in this build is still the same. So by the looks of it, in the last 3 builds of vista, including the one released this week 5308 the word 'start' is finally no longer going to be present. I think this will make HCI guys happy now :-)
For a recap on the start button in the past 10 years I've included the images I found in the link above.
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M Freitas
Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:18 AM
Very interesting... Posted here www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5946 (trackback is returning 500).
Daniel
Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:35 AM
Thanks for the mention Mauricio.
Galley
Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:18 PM
Removing "Start" from the button was a smart move. What exactly does it start if the computer is already running? If it was meant to be a starting point, then it should've said "start here", or "programs".
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Friday, July 07, 2006 7:37 AM
Windows Vista Build 4083 (64-bit) is nice