Steve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."
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Cited in debates about Windows design quality, sometimes agreeing and sometimes disputing the claim.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2024 to 2026.
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Cites gruturo · 2024-02 · on “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]
Critical linguae · 2026-02 · on “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