[disconnected]

What, nobody mentioned Microsoft Bob yet? :)

That thing was terrible, but I'm kinda sad that a Microsoft Bob-like window manager (or whatever you want to call it) never panned out.

Yes, it blows for productivity, but it had "personality" - it was colorful and silly unlike your average UI today which either looks "industrial" or subscribes to the "everything is flat and bland" school of thought.

Oh well. Here's to you, Bob:

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html

Edit: Ninja'd by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776932

[sedatk]

> it was colorful and silly

You misspelled inflexible. :)

[thrower123]

I really think they've missed the boat by not bringing back a NLP version of Clippy...