An Economist.com editorial examines the OS lay of the land on the eve of Vista's release, and makes an interesting case for why Windows "rules the world". Do you agree? We report, you decide.
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Member since:2005-07-12
I'm amazed at the stupidity of MS engineers though. They are paid so well, but have to resort to copying Apple. That's quite a shame given the amount of time MS has been in business.
I suspect the problem isn't the engineers as much as it is the development environment and corporate culture in which they are forced to operate.
If new features must go through a smotheringly complex approval process, for example, the chances are good that you'll never see them in the end product regardless of their actual merit.
It only takes one short-sighted manager or team lead to kill a perfectly viable idea.
Member since:2006-06-24
The Windows Presentation Foundation
The ability to use RAM drives as memory
Sideshow
.. that's three off the top of my head.
I'm amazed at the stupidity of MS engineers though. They are paid so well, but have to resort to copying Apple. That's quite a shame given the amount of time MS has been in business
Well, the difference is that MS engineers have to actually write operating systems; Apple engineers just have to keep bolting bits onto a UNIX clone they bought a few years ago, when their own efforts to develop an OS crashed and burned.
I'm often surprised when folk bang on about how long its taken MS to get Vista out the door, then forget to mention that Apple was trying to replace the original MacOS for TEN YEARS, before throwing in the towel and just buying an OS. Then we still had another couple of years to get it into a usable state.
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2006-01-04
Coming from a mac user who also has more pc's then macs. I don't see anything new in Vista compared to Mac OS X. Microsoft just borrowed a bunch of design from OS X. I mean it will be praised(Vista)in the Windows community, because I would image mult-millions of home users haven't seen OS X in action.
I'm amazed at the stupidity of MS engineers though. They are paid so well, but have to resort to copying Apple. That's quite a shame given the amount of time MS has been in business.