saturn return to sender

The running joke among Appleites is that Apple is Microsoft’s research and development department. Not so. Microsoft too nurtures an atmosphere of innovation in design and usability: witness Dance Dance E-mail.

Firing up a custom-built e-mail application, she used her feet on the up and down arrows to scroll through messages, and hit another pad to open and close them for viewing. E-mails could be flagged using the left and right arrows. Deleting was the most fun, as it involved jumping and hitting a specific combo (right arrow and the diagonal between up and left) together. Dr. Brush said that test subjects had gotten quite excited about deleting e-mails and became a bit too carried away in cleaning out their Inbox.

*smack*

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