Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Jun 2006 16:53 UTC
A lot of people seem to have this idea that Windows Vista looks an awful lot like the MacOS. LifeHacker.com sets some screenshots side-by-side for comparison, and even though they refrain from judgement ("We're just saying"), I do wish to make a few sidenotes about this issue. Read more for a mini-article on the issue.
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2005-10-30
I generally agree with Eugenia on the subject. What I'm slightly disappointed is the fact that in the recent 5 years or so we've seen a lot of evolution. Really a lot of evolution. And definitely not revolution. While we might be getting near the ultimate perfection in 2d desktop funcionality (some people might be saying otherwise though) I sometimes wonder wether it's good to invent and refine the wheel every time rather than switch to something completely new. I believe there's the need of a revolution in computing driven by a new breed of interfaces. We had CPUs, GPUs and now we're seeing the rise of PPU. I wonder, where's my IPU?? (Interface Processing Unit) Interface has becoming more and more complex with each iteration, requiring more memory and more horsepower. But it would need much more in order to make a leap forward in terms of usability (The more we go on, the more we'll need some sort of limited AI). Therefore the need of an IPU.
In a few words (I know maybe I wasn't very clear at all sorry about that):
1) We need new interfaces in order to deal with the increasing amount of data flows and the millions of files we have on our machines (100GBs is becoming a small Hd these days)
2) These new interfaces should reside over a system that monitors in real time all these files and flows, retaining some sort of "awareness", let's say an overall picture.
3) in order to be productive these new interfaces/systems should be able to do simple operations on files by themselves, such as comparing, organizing, sorting very diferent kind of documents.
(one side effect is that file formats should really become transparent to the user)
4) All this excessive use of power (someone might think "waste of power"... it's just a matter of views) will require a new kind of processors, optimized for simultaneous data manipulation and expert system operations. ( I'm not a Hardware literate, so forgive any eventual mistake)
Of course all of this IMHO.
Edited 2006-06-15 19:00