--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > wrote: > > > > --- sparaig wrote: > > > > > > --- Vaj wrote: > > > > > > > > http://snipurl.com/1528h > > > > > > Several MacOS X features listed in that video were > > > announced for Vista several years before > > > they appeared in MacOS X. > > > > What this ^ tells me is, Windows isn't as elegant as > > Mac OS X, so it takes far longer to execute an idea. > > Actually, that is *exactly* what you should infer. > Mac OSX was built on top of an already-functional, > already-elegant framework. The folks in Redmond > insisted on building their own, thus demonstrating > to the world that they don't know how. > > One of my friends in Santa Fe was and still is the > head of computer security for the National Labor- > atories at Los Alamos. For years he's had to try > to do his job in an environment based on Microsoft > networks. I just received a Christmas card from him > in which he gave his two-sentence assessment of the > "improved" security in Windows Vista, which he's > been testing for the last few weeks: "Nothing much > has changed in Vista. I still feel the need to > unplug my computer from the network every time I > get up to go to the bathroom." >
The guy in charge of designing XP was touted by MS as being the guy who designed VMS. According to and old GF, who's been in the industry longer than me, even, he was considered the "dumb one" of the team that designed VMS and people in the know were predicting it would have major issues.
