Steve Jobs says, "Microsoft has no taste."
Elon Musk - The MartianCited 3× on HN, 2024–2026
interview · general · evergreen · 2024–2026 on HN
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.
Cited in debates about Windows design quality, sometimes agreeing and sometimes disputing the claim.
Up next
13 mo on HNJim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile
Numberphile2
11 HN recommender · 2015–2024
11 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
JoshuaG
13 HN recommender · 2007–2015
11 mo on HNAlan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
powerfuloutlet
10 HN recommender · 2012–2026
10 mo on HNGrowing a Language, by Guy Steele
Bill Pugh
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
10 mo on HNA Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
11 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
Paul Stringer's Mobile Tech
10 HN recommender · 2016–2022
10 mo on HNVCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Vintage Computer Federation
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
10 mo on HNHamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
securitylectures
11 HN recommender · 2012–2023
8 mo on HNTech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Google
9 HN recommender · 2007–2023
10 mo on HNAlan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
TheTedNelson
7 HN recommender · 2016–2025
9 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
PowerfulJRE
10 HN recommender · 2017–2025
8 mo on HN"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview
Blender Guru
7 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 comments from Hacker News
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.
> 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
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