Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 25th Aug 2006 23:55 UTC
Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and David Mitchell Smith.
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As for Mac OS X, Vista still doesn't have the equivalent of CoreImage, CoreAudio, CoreData and certainly CoreAnimation.
Windows has a superset of those technologies. The capabilities of Core Audio, Image, and Animation have been covered by DirectX for years. Likewise, ADO has covered the same scenarios as CoreData.
In Vista, all of these technologies and more are simplified and woven into WinFX.
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Yes, of course, I don't like BSD and Linux when it comes to GUI programming. I can't stand GTK and QT.
Are you sure you've never heard of Glade and QTDesigner? They've been around for years and years. Both generate XML files to be loaded during runtime. Few people hand code their GUI nowadays. If you don't like C/C++, you can use GTK#, Koala, Java-gnome, pygtk etc.
As for Mac OS X, Vista still doesn't have the equivalent of CoreImage, CoreAudio, CoreData and certainly CoreAnimation. Although there are fewer changes between OS X releases due to its frequency, I am sure you will find Leopard (will be released around Vista's time) revolutionary compared to Cheetah (released around XP's time).