Comment Re:Darn! (Score 1) 557
It's a matter of /. thread history to say that Microsoft must have jumped for joy when they first saw Mac OS X. I see nothing in the article to suggest they've really done anything genuinely new in the world of interface design with Vitsa since then.
I'm not one of these Mac heads who knocks Microsoft for the sake of it, but it does stick in the craw a little when they're so blatant about where they get / steal their ideas from.
Of course, Vista could be as bad as Win 3.1 in appearance and it will still dominate the market. None geeks (90% of the population of the world who use computers) think a computer IS Windows, they aren't going to not buy Vista just because it's a poor man's version of Mac OS aqua - they won't even know what they are looking at on their first days as a new Vista user is basically a skin and some bug fixes to XP.
As for the so called cost benefits of not having to reboot so many times - I dread to think what horrors lurk in store. I'll lay a £10 bet that it basically involves a dialogue box which reads something like "Do you want to reboot now or ignore this problem and continue"
I'm not one of these Mac heads who knocks Microsoft for the sake of it, but it does stick in the craw a little when they're so blatant about where they get / steal their ideas from.
Of course, Vista could be as bad as Win 3.1 in appearance and it will still dominate the market. None geeks (90% of the population of the world who use computers) think a computer IS Windows, they aren't going to not buy Vista just because it's a poor man's version of Mac OS aqua - they won't even know what they are looking at on their first days as a new Vista user is basically a skin and some bug fixes to XP.
As for the so called cost benefits of not having to reboot so many times - I dread to think what horrors lurk in store. I'll lay a £10 bet that it basically involves a dialogue box which reads something like "Do you want to reboot now or ignore this problem and continue"
