![]() My guess is that they’re giving us this news in the ‘rolling thunder’ scheme. I’m biased, I admit it, but I don’t mean to troll. In the context of Microsoft already toiling to get the cow out of the barn for years now, and going for a full 5 years, hinting that features may have to be dropped because they’re falling behind is somehow not quite impressing me. That could mean some further trimming around the edges if things fall behind. I’m not sure if the MS spokesman was misrepresented, and CNet is just trying to be funny, or ironic or something, and is secretly laughing at Microsoft….or whether they’re actually that embrassingly pathetic. In fact, anybody with an Nvidia graphics card has had this and much more for about 2 years (it’s included with the drivers). This is quite clearly pathetic – Stardock, to name a comercial example, has offered this for years, as had about 50 other tweaking/eye-candy products on windows. This is completely idiotic, and the MS spokesman even has the cheek to tell us this is what is differentiating their product offering. Oh please….Translucent windows? “Graphics tricks”? (whatever that means). While the look of the OS hasn’t been finalized, the translucent windows and other graphics tricks are expected to find their way into the finished software. ![]() ![]() What? Just because Windows Search, and the Indexing Service completely suck so incredibly, a new feature which *actually* finds your files is somehow innovative? Oh right…and Unix has had locate for what, the last 5 minutes? (And don’t give me that rot about command-line – there’s plenty of well-written, light frontends, although personally I think they’re not all that better than a CLI) I mean, do they themselves really belive that this is somehow innovative?Ī “quick search pane,” for example, allows users to type queries and instantly see matching files. What the? I can’t believe Microsoft could actually be *that* stupid, or even CNet for that matter. I’d have to concur with the sentimennts above – thumbnailing of a file’s contents in it’s icon? Lets hope the money MS invested in security training for its developers really pays off in Longhorn, it will be good to finally see an exciting (IMHO anyway) version of Windows. It’s about time MS integrated the “view icons as the file” type approach that I’ve become accustomed to with nautilus/gnome (and I suspect kde does something similar). Each of them appear to be taking a slightly different route, and hence each should be unique technology in some way. I will also be interested to see who’s desktop search becomes the best-to-use tool – Apple’s system wide embedded searching, MS’ seemingly global system with live query folders etc, or kde/gnome technologies. I suspect various apps will break as a downside, but due to their weight in the market, lots of ‘free’ updates for apps will be made available to make them longhorn-compatible. It will be interesting to see how they’ve taken the users/root concept from a linux desktop and applied it to administrators/power users/users in the windows environment. I haven’t used windows on a pc for some time, but Longhorn sounds like they may finally be taking the best ideas from linux, macos and (to some extent) the various kde/gnome technologies, and bringing them together in one coherent OS. Its good to see Microsoft playing catch-up for a change. ![]()
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