To: 1234; 50mm; 6SJ7; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; aristotleman; af_vet_rr; Aggie Mama; ...
Windows 7 preview - ". . . And there it is … well, damn if it doesn’t look pretty slick. Clearly the Windows dev team’s been busy with more than just Vista service packs. Quick side note: Windows 7, like other Microsoft OS’s before it, seems to have borrowed a thing or two from Mac OS X. This time it’s Apple’s Dock, which Microsoft appears to have borrowed. Multi-touch and a Dock. In Windows. Steve Jobs must be so proud. Larson-Green pulls up a brand new app, “Touchable Paint.” She uses all 10 fingers to draw a tree. Then, she brings up a photo gallery. Noting that multi-touch makes it faster and easier to manipulate photos, she demonstrates … well, she demonstrates a lot of features that anyone who’s ever used an iPhone will already be familiar with: two-finger zoom, flicking through a slideshow, single finger panning through thumbnails . . .
The MS copy machines have been busy Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
10 posted on
05/27/2008 11:18:14 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Ballmer: Vista is not a failure. Is it something we'd like to improve? Of course. Is it something that with 20/20 hindsight we'd do differently? Sure, he confesses. But Vista has sold a lot of copies, he adds.
Heh... "sure, we'd like to improve it, and wish we'd done it differently, but we've already cashed your checks, so [bleep] you."
12 posted on
05/27/2008 11:27:06 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker
Somebody took a bite out of that Apple!
13 posted on
05/27/2008 11:29:47 PM PDT by
tallyhoe
To: Swordmaker
Yeah, I get a distinct iPhone/Multi-Touch vibe from the presentation. The Microsoft Surface is nothing more than a larger iPhone.
It’s amazing how Microsoft just has no clue. Were it not for the inertia of Windows sales (usually to businesses) and the popularity of Office, Microsoft would have died off long ago.
19 posted on
05/28/2008 2:45:22 AM PDT by
Terpfen
(Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
To: Swordmaker
Quick side note: Windows 7, like other Microsoft OS’s before it, seems to have borrowed a thing or two from Mac OS X.
In the mid-90s, Gates was giving comments at a techno meeting. In it, he made this statement: 'good ideas are meant to be borrowed; great ideas are meant to be stolen'.
26 posted on
05/28/2008 4:49:06 AM PDT by
TomGuy
To: Swordmaker
After reading this, I'm gonna watch my copy of Pirates of Silicon Valley.
61 posted on
05/28/2008 11:02:36 AM PDT by
rdb3
(Upward, onward, beyond...)
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