"This is the year... The year that Microsoft releases the newest version of Windows. We are targeting to make Windows Vista generally available in the second half of this year, and the exact delivery date will ultimately be determined by the quality of the product. So what is so compelling that our customers would want to spend money upgrading to the Vista operating system? Let's take a quick look at all that Vista offers a small business."
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Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2006-01-04
Of Spotlight in MacOSX. Vista will have many new features for MS people, like Limited user account. Wow Linux had this since always? Restart manager, cool now this will save my document when I will have to restart. WinFS, no It has been cancelled. Avalon, bad Aqua copy. I am not seeing anything new in Vista, which weren't in MacOs or/and linux. Ups I forgot viruses and spyware.
Member since:2005-07-17
Two things:
First of all, get a spell checker. Mac OS comes with one built into it, which I think should be the norm for operating systems.
Back on topic...
Do you remember what any of those things are?
Restart Manager:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1895276,00.asp
Allows for components to be updated without actually restarting the computer. Nothing about saving documents there.
Avalon:
Avalon is a presentation system, comparable to Quartz Extreme on a Mac. Aqua's the theme.
And finally...
Macs could get viruses too, if anyone actually bothered to make them. As a mac user myself, I can see too easily how overconfidence influenced certain aspects of the software, such as the way files are automatically opened after downloading in Safari, etc.
And I've seen a marked decrease in spyware since SP2.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-08-11
Uh, winfs has not been cancelled, just delayed to after Vista has launched, avalon is not a copy of aqua, it is a programming interface and replacement for GDI and GDI+ which are very old, if you don't really know what you are talking about, maybe you should do research before you post
Member since:
2005-07-06
GNOME, and especially Novell...
Is that a little Deskbar they have in their start menu? With a beagle backend? What does that remind you of...?