anil dash is asking rhetorical question!

is's funny that MSFT is actually blamed for something that has not been changed for a while. And because of this *non-change* something that used to be a feature suddenly... starts irritatating.
The point is valid - modern computer UI is ugly, especially for people who does not give a thing about computers in their life. That part of world population is simply use computers or avoid those *inventions* not because they are not smart-enough to comprehend it, but simply because the UI is butt ugly... and does not make any sense: clicking, dragging, tapping on pda... what's up with that...
I'll go even further, I think that most of UI *innovations* are actually disruptive to the function people trying to apply computer for...