Posted on 12/12/2007 5:38:32 PM PST by Swordmaker
Microsoft Software Test Engineer and blogger Hilton Locke said this week that the Windows Vista successor, codenamed "Vienna," you know, like the sausage, will include new multi-touch features.
"I will say that if you are impressed by the 'touch features' in the iPhone, you'll be blown away by what's coming in Windows 7," said Hilton Locke, a test engineer on the Tablet PC effort. "Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales."
Full article here.
[UPDATE: 6:35pm EST: Added graphic as per Dreil's request below.]
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, see, if you just wait for the "next" version of Windows, Microsoft will finally get it right. What's that? You just finished waiting 6+ years for the chrome-plated turd they call "Vista?" And, they promised you the same things with Windows 98, Me, XP, etc., too? No, really, this time they mean it: just wait for the "next" version of Windows, and Microsoft will finally get it right. It'll be amazing, we're sure. Don't be so impatient. Sheesh, you act like your time is so damn important. Relax.
Oh, yeah, we almost forgot: Do not, under any circumstances, watch or read anything about Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote a month from now. Just keep waiting for Microsoft to "blow away" a pocket-sized 2007 device's UI with their next PC OS that's due in 2010 (or so they say today).
..still using W2KSP4—will never use Vista
In one, two maybe three years?
Wouldn’t surprise me. I use a phone running Windows Mobile that came out a year before the iPhone yet has superior functionality. Actually, I’m posting this from it. If MS admits Vista was a stopgap and puts all its resources into Windows 7, they could really have something, based on what I’ve read.
By “blow away,” they must mean “rip off and marginally scale back the feature set just enough to annoy.”
Really wish I knew why people consider Windows Mobile-equipped phones to represent any sort of quality. Yeah, there are the geeks who take pride in hating on anything Apple, but come on.
So you can F-Disk by just an accidental touch in the new version?
Well, I’m all in for that.
For some reason, I doubt you actually do want to know. But giving you the benefit of the doubt, those of us who use and depend on such phones value functionality and interoperability over froofroo graphics. It's more useful to me to be able to run (Windows) business apps on my phone than to be able to flip through my already-sorted MP3's by album cover.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Oh of course it has superior functionality. (giggle) I believe you too.
That's a nice generality, but I'm sure you can realize that it says nothing about the relative capabilities of the iPhone vis-a-vis a Windows Mobile product. Care to present an actual, specific example of something I cannot do on this phone but that I could do with an iPhone? I have yet to have anyone answer that question, but I am more than willing to admit I'm wrong if anyone can.
Well, of course. I'm still blown away by how the Zune destroyed the iPod. ;)
Right...so my phone is a bad product, despite the fact that it lets me do everything I need or want. Conversely, the iPhone is a great product, even though it does not let me do everything I might need or want.
I understand fanaticism. But are you really trying to say that your above statements constitute logic??
I have no problem waiting. I started using Windows using NT4.0 — never went through 95 and 98, never saw any of the problems associated with 16 bit Windows.
NT4.0 was a heck of a lot more stable and reliable than OS 8, which is what the competition was.
I switched to W2K around 1999, and used it on one of my home computers until very recently. It was very stable. I only upgraded to XP because I lost the installation CD and needed if for a motherboard upgrade. One of the things you can do with Windows is upgrade motherboards — even switch from Intel to AMD and back — without buying a new copy of the OS or having to reinstall programs.
I’ve never seen any of the problems people talk about in reference to Windows. I occasionally reboot when installing software upgrades, but in general I go weeks without rebooting. A server I maintain — Server 2003 — went six months without a reboot.
I won’t likely upgrade to Vista. I have no need to. I can replace my hardware bit by bit without ever requiring a new computer. My aluminum cases are light, clean looking, and going on eight years old, and may never need replacing. I can even get accessories and replacement parts for them, after eight years. A few months ago I replaced an older USB front connector with a multimedia version, and added an LCD fan and temperature indicator that matches my case styling, for $20.
Do you reboot your phone when it drops a call?
Because, clearly, a great product is one that allows you and only you to do your specific desired tasks.
The one with the skewed definitions is you.
I can't think of a time I've had a dropped call since getting my iPhone. I have rebooted a few times when Safari got a little unstable, strangely always on FreeRepublic. After a while it doesn't like the links to articles or specific replies except that the link to Reply 1 always works. I reboot the iPhone and the links work as expected for several hours then go hinky again. I've reported the bug to Apple. I think it has something to do with the auto opening of a new window that FR does. No other site causes this specific problem.
So what is your phone?
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