IMO, this « New » paradigm worked best in the past (on Windows 9x) when Explorer was a simple and comprehensive abstraction around « Desktop / Folders / Files ».
Windows explorer evolved from a user friendly implementation of a simple abstraction to a complex file management tool with buttons and menus everywhere. Once you start installing programs, the context menu starts to be bloated and incomprehensible, the ribbon toolbars is full of useless buttons for the vast majority of end users, files organisation is a mess with virtual folders right from the fresh install …
« New > » was a nice and comprehensive feature I could explain to my grandmother two decades ago when this thing was just a window holding files. Now I wouldn’t even try to explain her how she could use that tool.
I have the strange feeling that, as things goes, personal computing is more and more complex.
Windows explorer evolved from a user friendly implementation of a simple abstraction to a complex file management tool with buttons and menus everywhere. Once you start installing programs, the context menu starts to be bloated and incomprehensible, the ribbon toolbars is full of useless buttons for the vast majority of end users, files organisation is a mess with virtual folders right from the fresh install …
« New > » was a nice and comprehensive feature I could explain to my grandmother two decades ago when this thing was just a window holding files. Now I wouldn’t even try to explain her how she could use that tool.
I have the strange feeling that, as things goes, personal computing is more and more complex.