And yet some more information about Windows 7 has found its way to users. Ars Technica is present at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, and they dove into the new Device Stage feature, as well as the new Libraries feature in the Windows Explorer file manager.
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2006-02-05
Device stage is sort of expected since this is a "polish the UI" release, but I had written off libraries as yet another search folder implementation, which I have found useless on every OS I have used it on. I'll reserve final judgement until I can actually play around with them, but this shows alot of promise
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This ain't a bad thing, though.
The better Windows becomes, the better the competition must become, so go Windows 7! ( hehe )
--The loon
I agree, MacOS X already showed that the assumption "eye pleasing graphics + ease of use != system security, versatility, and stability" was flawed and you COULD do better.
Windows 7 building on top of the great (IMHO) under-the-hood changes Vista pioneered for the desktop Windows OS system, optimizing performance, focusing on usability and UI consistency, will not only be good news for Windows users, but for Linux users too as IMHO will motivate the OSS to leapfrog their competition (and this will be good news for everyone).
Member since:2005-07-12
In theory, yes. However, to this day, a tagging system like the one that exists in Vista has yet to be integrated in eg. Gnome.
Nautilus also needs some work if Gnome wants to compete with Windows 7 - this library thing looks really nice.
Member since:2005-12-02
"I agree, MacOS X already showed that the assumption "eye pleasing graphics + ease of use != system security, versatility, and stability" was flawed and you COULD do better."
OS X can be eye pleasing, yes. Ease of use? I know I will get slammed for this, but that is a personal opinion and subjective. It is a confusing and frustrating UI, unless you have used nothing but OS X.
Member since:2005-11-10
You mean, it's confusing and frustrating if you've only ever used Windows -- If you've a wider experience than Windows alone, that includes Unix, Linux, Amiga OS, RISC OS, BeOS and so on, then OS X is not out of place.
Windows is like Photoshop. It's bad UI to begin with, but you just slog through it until you know it well, and then you're unable to understand anything alternative.
Member since:2005-12-02
"You mean, it's confusing and frustrating if you've only ever used Windows -- If you've a wider experience than Windows alone, that includes Unix, Linux, Amiga OS, RISC OS, BeOS and so on, then OS X is not out of place."
Well, again, that is your opinion and I respect that. I use Linux, Unix, Windows, and even OS X, and have used OS 9 prior to. BeOS never booted an any hardware I had so could never try it out. I still think the OS X UI is a usability nightmare, not that Windows and the like are all that much better depending who is using them.
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2008-05-26
The Gnome developers are only going to reimplement features that people actually use in Vista and Windows 7. Tags ended off being a bit of a fad, and I don't know anyone who uses them on desktop files. Device Stage could be another one of those features. Multi-touch is likely to be the exception to the rule; I'm sure Gnome will get some multi-touch capabilities before everyone realises that they hate leaving fingerprints on their monitors :-)
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2005-07-12