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- modern0
Definitely needs to lose the start menu and task bar, rethink the whole thing.
That design just breeded messy hell because most windows developers can't behave themselves, they think their app no matter how inconsequential deserves to sit in the system tray, on the desktop, the root of the start menu, the quick launch bar and then in some cases every fucking explorer context menu (looking at you ATI Catalyst control centre) then they try to make it as awkward as possible to remove these things, I've even had some modem drivers that every time they initialised they would put 2 icons on your desktop (That basically opened the same control panel) even if you deleted them they'd come back next restart.
Seriously windows devs clearly can't be trusted with that freedom, need to rule the cunts with an iron fist to make that system useable
- moth0
"When challenged as to who would get to market first with a new touch screen device, Microsoft or Apple, Mr Ballmer said it was not much of an issue.
" 'We'll sell 290 million PCs and Apple will sell 10 million PCs.' "
- he then proceeded to sweat profusely while bellowing 'woooo! woooo! I love my job! woooo!'ian
- moth0
- ian0
I have to say that maybe Im kinda stuck in the 90's or 00's or whatever the fuck, but I don't want to use touchscreen in work. I fucking hate it when people leave their grubby little paw prints on my screen when pointing shit out.
So with a touch screen Im gonna have to clean my monitor twice a day to remove that shit? I don't even clean myself twice a day and Im a fairly scruffy fucker.
So, regardless of who comes to market sooner and who sells more, I want a mouse and a keyboard to go with it and keep yer mitts off me screen. *goes to get screen wipes...
- What if they had a separate touchpad that sat below your screen and gave you a choice?voiceof
- moth0
I think MS might be a step ahead of you.
I'm getting the impression they're treating the OS like a well-made website. It's one OS, but the rendering of it is altered depending on the device you're using running it on. If I could have my PC, a touch screen media centre in my living room, and PDA or phone that all one "device" - that would personally rock my world. Maybe even some interface for you TV. That kinda thing...
- creative-0
So everyone's going to need yet another new machine to be able to use this multitouch then?
- acescence0
This is no way to build an operating system. Microsoft Watch opines, based on the D6 conference stage show:
Windows 7 will ship in 2009, almost certainly in time for holiday PCs. Microsoft disclosed today that there would be no major architectural changes from Vista, which would greatly reduce development complications.
Check out this comment, in another of Joe Wilcox's blogs, that appends some internal e-mails released during the dark days of DoJ.MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn "reset" in 2004 was in large part the realization that WinFS was still not ready for primetime.
At the June 2004 WWDC, Jobs blew away the MSFT engineers in attendance by demonstrating lightning fast Spotlight searches on Tiger (OSX 10.4). The court-released MSFT emails show how flabbergasted they were, and the imperative of getting the Tiger preview DVDs back to Redmond for reverse engineering. Comments by MSFT's Jim Allchin and Lenn Pryor were priceless.Here's Pryor:
" You will have to take Vic's disk...I am not giving mine up. ;) Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail.app to my Exchange server and then downloaded all of my mail into the local file store. I did system wide queries against docs, contacts, apps, photos, music, and my Microsoft email on a Mac. It was f*cking amazing. It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today."
Here's Allchin:
"Yes. I know. It is hard to take. I don't believe we will have search this fast."
So, apparently, the 2009-2010 version of Windows will still not have the next-gen file system I was writing about more than 10 years ago -- when "Cairo" was the lead codename -- let alone a microkernel with modules for OS "personalities" and compatibility.
You're gonna fend off Google and cloud computing with a touch screen?? Good luck. I do hope there's a skunkworks Plan B in the labs. No wonder buying Yahoo "isn't strategic."
- formed0
sad, just sad
Looks like they are going to make Windows with all the things I hate about Apple's OS (I HATE big, ugly, annoying logos - give me clean simplicity, no fruity cartoon icons!! Jesus!!).
Maybe some Linux company will rip off XP and everyone can go back to living in peace.
- acescence0
i guess you missed the part revealing they are fake. also- you can change the size of the icons in osx. and there are linux desktops that already offer xp skins, gnome and kde for example.