Remembering Windows 2000
Windows 2000 also represents the zenith of UI design for Microsoft software. I&#x27;m still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP, it looked like a toy for toddlers, and installing the Zune theme was the first thing I did after a fresh install to try and tone it down.<p>The in-your-face over decoration of UI&#x27;s thankfully hasn&#x27;t persisted, but instead we&#x27;re seeing a similar kind of decadence among our supposedly minimal and flat interfaces. The misuse of space and screen real-estate has gotten pretty bad as of late, and I&#x27;m all for an appropriate amount of whitespace (I keep railing against certain linux DE&#x27;s for not getting this right) but modern software seems to be devoid of any kind of efficiency with layout or a sensible information density.