Tom Piwowar >>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. Okay... > 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. What important features aren't present? When was the last important brought forward? Are kind of things are these missing features (UI (appearance, etc.), gadgets/mini-apps, system functionality (back-up), the list goes on)? Hmmm, for those of us who are not cognoscenti, what is FTFF? > I'm glad to see Windows users owning up to their useless > glitter. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Whip me, beat me, make me write BASIC! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
