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Steve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."

Name: Steve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."
Description: A short clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste, from an interview about Windows. It is an excerpt reposted by a fan channel.

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2024–2026, never outright recommended score 0

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Cited in debates about Windows design quality, sometimes agreeing and sometimes disputing the claim.

A short clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste, from an interview about Windows. It is an excerpt reposted by a fan channel.

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@gruturo Feb 2024 Cites it

on HN thread Google enables OS upgrades for older PCs post-Windows 10 support cutoff

> Why remove such a good feature? To look more like Apple does? Fail fail fail Microsoft Imitating Apple, not understanding why Apple does some of these things (not that they're always right eh, far from it), thus fumbling really badly. My Apple Fan Card is long expired, I'm not even paying my dues (just a phone in the last 3 years) but Jobs was absolutely right already back in 1995: [this video]

Jobs on Microsoft having no taste

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@linguae Feb 2026 Pushes back

on HN thread The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

Steve Jobs is famous for his 1996 quote about Microsoft not having taste ( [this video] ). I disagree; as much as I love the classic Mac OS and Jobs-era Mac OS X, and despite my feelings about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior, 1995-2000 Microsoft's user interfaces were quite tasteful, in my opinion, and this was Microsoft's most tasteful period. I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6. I even liked Internet Explorer 5. These were well-made products when it came to the user interface. Yes, Windows 95 crashed a lot, but so did Macintosh System 7. Things started going downhill, in my opinion, with the Windows XP "Fisher-Price" Luna interface and the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon.

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@WhereIsTheTruth Jan 2024 Makes a joke

on HN thread Windows 11 struggling to escape the shadow of Windows 10

When you keep add bloat on top of bloat, fire your QA team, hire people not skilled enough for the task, protect your incompetent higher ups, at some point things start to fall apart, that's windows for you The sad part is as a result, windows 10 is viewed as "good".. society fell this low The everything app will certainly not be microsoft/windows based We still have a long way to go in the west.. [this video]

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