Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Nov 2006 08:39 UTC, submitted by Brad Wardell
Software developer Stardock has unveiled its first-wave Windows Vista plans for its desktop enhancement suite, Object Desktop. Amongst the Vista-specific software it is working on is a Windows Sidebar gadget creation extention for DesktopX (which will support WPF/.NET creations too) and a Windows Vista specific version of WindowBlinds.
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RE[6]: Widgets, Konfab, = desktop accessory
by jtfolden on Thu 16th Nov 2006 05:16
in reply to "RE[5]: Widgets, Konfab, = desktop accessory"
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"news flash!.... an operating system first developed back in 1969, appears to have been able to multitask better then.... 99% of the oSes shipped as last as 1995!!!
how could it be!"
It has nothing to do with devlopement time. The theories about Operating Systems is what you learned in your computer science courses and the implementation inside of such a tiny system isn't going to keep an developer too much time. Mac OS got real (preemptive) multitasking in an incarnation of OS X (i don't rember with what version it came, but it wasn't 10.0) so it took them 20 years to implement an decent multitasking kernel. And actually they only archieved it in the end by throwing away Mac OS all together and take something already existing.
Mainstream Windows got preemptive multitasking with Win2k, though i think even NT4 had it.
Amiga had it in 1985... so no newsflash here... Apples OS developers just weren't qualified enough.