Saturday, June 26, 2021

A 13 Years Gap of Technology Race: OpenSUSE 11 in Year 2008 and Windows 11 in Year 2021


OpenSUSE 11.0 was released 13 years ago with exciting new UI and its glossy transparent widgets:
http://www.suseblog.com/opensuse-11-alpha-1-released

KDE plasma 4 was the engine behind it to make all of those glossy transparent look'n feel to shine.
- https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/16/opensuse-112-released-polished-kde-desktop
- https://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_on_a_intel945gm_netbook.png

Recently Microsoft announced Windows 11 highlighting about "new big UI changes" as "big part of user experience"
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22548895/windows-11-ui-visual-change-roundup-microsoft-upgrade

What a lag/latecomer for Microsoft to introduce this glossy UI in this year 2021.
Some jokes in WhatsApp group (or read: rants :-))
Let's welcome Windows 11 to the year 2008 for its users in year 2021.
A great effort to Microsoft for their marketing to impress innocent Windows users with the 13 years back technologies as "new big UI changes" as "big part of user experience"