Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Jan 2007 17:42 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without. There are many lists out there on why to get Vista, so here's ours on why not to." Update: I have written a rebuttal on my weblog. Update II: Another rebuttal.
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What do you mean that low. GDK and Cairo are the only ways for a GTK+ app to draw something, and GDK will not, by design, be implemented on top of Cairo. In order to leverage the benefits of Cairo, apps will have to be modified to switch from using GDK for drawing to using Cairo for drawing.
It is not unlike the Quickdraw/Quartz situation in OS X, except Quickdraw has been officially deprecated, and GDK hasn't.
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That is assuming that the application digs that low in terms of the API; GTK is being ported over to Cairo, and eventually everything will float onto of Cairo.
Microsoft may make great technology, but they're rarely exploited by anyone outside Microsoft, and all you end up having is yet another layer of crap added to Windows which very few companies use.
Microsoft then go back to the drawing board, create yet *ANOTHER* piece of technology, and so the cycle of crap collection continues.
I don't blame Microsoft for lazy third parties, but at the same time, justifying an upgrade based on technologies that very few companies will exploit is a pretty terrible excuse to upgrade.