I am baffled by this. Removing shell namespace extension during beta is absolutely not an obstacle to a third party shipping a word processor or a data base. The standard Open File dialog was just fine and everyone else used it - and still use it. There is no equivalent on any other OS. It's totally irrelevant to why WordPerfect lost the market and they have proof that the database was late anyway and would not have shipped until the year after. I cannot understand what the other 11 juries saw there that was a predatory move, they probably just don't understand all of this tech stuff, it is quite complex to a non programmer, isn't it.

Factory workers with 80$ data plans and smartphones? The majority of people have older pcs, a subset of those have iPods that they fill from music on the pc. But they are not browsing the web on a smartphone with an 80$ data plans. Or buying 700$ ipads. The entry point for pcs is much lower and that where most people in the world are.

well they make hardware (motion capture sensors) for a niche market. So it's not terribly likely that their code being stolen will be a big issue, I think. It's a tiny market with few players. In fact, having the code open might make their hardware easier to integrate for some clients with custom solutions, or at least feel safe about it.

No there are two modifier keys as well on Windows. OS X copied the hotkey switching from Windows. On Windows ALT+Tab switches between apps, Ctrl+TAB switches between windows in that application. Just like Apple+Tab and Apple+esc (or whatever it is, I can't remember) Also, OS X got it wrong at first. The elegance of the Windows ATL+TAB and CTRL+TAB is that you can easily switch to the last two windows when you pressed and released the key. At first on OSX, it always went to the next one. They fixed it for their equivalent of ALT+TAB after release one, but never fixed it for their equivalent for CTRL+TAB.

in the article, you can see that it is largely about change that Paul Miller has a problem with, especially with regards to Microsoft. He says he feels betters with Windows 7 with the poorly implemented Windows 95 theme mode! Are you saying Win95 was a paragon of good design compared to today? that doesn't make sense. his points about Apple and real-work metaphors not actually being helpful on a computer is a good point, but it's really borrowed from another article (which he links to) and he doesn't expand on that. He just says that the new operating systems are just new lipsticks on the old OS and he's rather use the old OS directly instead and not have all of this glitter. the ribbon is interesting. you may not like it, but you have to explain why without referring (muscle memory, screen real estate on old computers) otherwise you are just indeed complaining about change.

that's only since OS X and the year 2000.

I think you're right, but as a side note: in the early 1990s, development for the Mac was totally locked down. You had to show your business plan and get approval from Apple to get the development kit. It was totally new for OS X that apple gave away the dev tool; in fact some thought it was out of desperation to get people on the new platform. Now you only need an email address to access developer.apple.com! Back then Microsoft and MSDN was beating everyone with how free and accessible development API and documentation were. (Even though people can complain Visual C or MSC was expensive, command line compiler tools were always free with the SDK. Borland and Wacom also had the full API documentions and tools) Apple progressively opened to developement through the 1990 and there were third party tools like Think C and Code Warrior (both of which I used), but early on it was damn near impossible to write software for Apple without first getting the making your case to the compan.

Right, because the success of Word Perfect entirely hinged on being able to do something funky in file open dialog instead of using the standard OpenFile dialog, with the customization support everyone uses!! Adobe, Core, Autodesk, no one else had this problem. That wasn't at all a fundamental function of a word processor AND when you develop on a beta operating system you CAN expect things to change before it ships.

not as crazy as it sounds, with CryEngine for Cinema http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=945&Itemid=1

someone says it's a pun with LIGO, which would be a pun.

there has to be more to this sentence (ex: maybe there is an eye in lego universe, or this sentence paraphrases something else), because saying the "universe" is ending is not pun.

looks like this is about the standard-based definition header files of glibc, so MS haven't a patch accepted in some other part of linux does't really relate to any of this

your just trolling with the cliché prejudice, but btw the article linked in the post is in French and the poster here is probably french speaking as well.

autocad for the mac was released only a few month ago, after stopping the support for the mac in 1994!

there has never been mac version of 3ds max. it was written directly for Window NT and its core and plug-ins have deep dependencies on Win32.