You know Vista is going to suck when someone tries to sell you on the next two OS releases.
XP was supposed to be The Next Great Thing. Then it was Longhorn aka Vista--everything else was going to wither and die in the face of this MS juggernaut.
Let's face it: Microsoft's ability to innovate and develop great new software is in serious trouble, at least if they continue this path of pushing massive overhauls of Windows and "revolutionary" features.
Vista isn't even out, for the love of God. It will undoubtedly need two Service Packs to function satisfactorily. After the second one, let's talk about Fiji and Vienna.
Interesting that NO time frame is mentioned for these two future releases...
Fiji /Is/ Vista Service Pack 1. (And it sounds like a damn good service pack, considering that it's free. There's a lot more there than some of Apple's much-anticipated money-costing updates).
Other than that, I agree with you.
I am looking forward to seeing what they really plan with Vienna, though. I bet it's going to be a glorified text console :P (And hopefully by then, there'll be an abstracted Linux shell system that turns plain English into complex commands...)
Anyway, breaking old compatibility is not the way to go. This windowing system stuff is all open-ended for a reason: You can have a radically different desktop environment running the exact same applications as another. It takes some imagination to come up with things to add on top, but it is very possible. For example, little features like setting my own menu accelerators in Gnome really give it an edge! (And yes, that feature is specific to the desktop environment).
What are you talking about? Every company does this sort of thing. Same thing happened when XP was released - they were already talking about Vienna and showed WinFS (and, actually some features that people claim where stolen from OS X) a few months later. I assume though, that you will bring this point up again when speculation starts on what is next for OS X the day after Panther is released.
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JMajor @ Dec 30th 2006 8:01PM
You know Vista is going to suck when someone tries to sell you on the next two OS releases.
XP was supposed to be The Next Great Thing. Then it was Longhorn aka Vista--everything else was going to wither and die in the face of this MS juggernaut.
Let's face it: Microsoft's ability to innovate and develop great new software is in serious trouble, at least if they continue this path of pushing massive overhauls of Windows and "revolutionary" features.
Vista isn't even out, for the love of God. It will undoubtedly need two Service Packs to function satisfactorily. After the second one, let's talk about Fiji and Vienna.
Interesting that NO time frame is mentioned for these two future releases...
Mr. Picklesworth @ Dec 30th 2006 10:20PM
Fiji /Is/ Vista Service Pack 1. (And it sounds like a damn good service pack, considering that it's free. There's a lot more there than some of Apple's much-anticipated money-costing updates).
Other than that, I agree with you.
I am looking forward to seeing what they really plan with Vienna, though. I bet it's going to be a glorified text console :P
(And hopefully by then, there'll be an abstracted Linux shell system that turns plain English into complex commands...)
Anyway, breaking old compatibility is not the way to go. This windowing system stuff is all open-ended for a reason: You can have a radically different desktop environment running the exact same applications as another. It takes some imagination to come up with things to add on top, but it is very possible. For example, little features like setting my own menu accelerators in Gnome really give it an edge! (And yes, that feature is specific to the desktop environment).
helio9000 @ Dec 31st 2006 7:08AM
What are you talking about? Every company does this sort of thing. Same thing happened when XP was released - they were already talking about Vienna and showed WinFS (and, actually some features that people claim where stolen from OS X) a few months later. I assume though, that you will bring this point up again when speculation starts on what is next for OS X the day after Panther is released.
Luis aka yousux @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:11PM
Panther? didnt that happen like 2 OSes ago?
dude go get some edumacation... please