On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 20:20 America/Vancouver, Mark D Lew wrote:
On May 22, 2004, at 1:35 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
But, in case you want to defend your stance on Longhorn and OS X, do tell exactly which features of Longhorn (i.e., features that were absent in any previous version of Windows) are ripped off from OS X.
I'm all ears.
Weren't we talking about Mac OS X's "Expos�" feature here not long ago? Isn't that one of the things coming in Longhorn which doesn't currently exist in Windows?
As I understand it, the main features which Longhorn is going to add which were not in previous versions of Windows but are in Mac OS X -- I assume that's what's meant by "ripped off" -- primarily have to do with the graphic interface.
Other concepts stemming from MacOS X having BSD underpinnings have been ripped off too. Like standard unix shell commands and scripting language implementations.
Watch what happens on the "Zero Link" and distributed computing fronts. MacOS X uses these features in the developer tools right now and I suspect they will start to migrate to regular applications starting in MacOS X "Tiger" edition. Meaning that Longhorn users can expect something similar around 2010.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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