>Things like this are improvements that MS should be making to the Windows >OS, but all that seems to happen is the addition of what I would call >"glitter," not functionality
That is what happens when engineers try to copy a successful competitor's product and they don't fundamentally understand the reasons for the other product's success. They copy the wrong things. The useless glitter. For example, when the not-so-successful engineers from Next tried to write the successor to OS 9 they missed so much of what made the Mac great. It took years of screaming by their customers to get important missed features put back and even today, 6 versions into OS X, there are still important features that were left behind. The arrogant Nexties could not get their brains around the concept that their ideas were not as good as the ideas that were already there. FTFF is still a sore point with many long-time Apple customers. I'm glad to see Windows users owning up to their useless glitter. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
