"The Aero user experience is a generational leap over what's available today in Windows XP," Kerry Hammil, a program manager on the Avalon team, said during a graphics session at the show Monday afternoon. Aero is Microsoft's attempt to copy the Quartz Extreme technology that Apple started shipping in Mac OS X a couple of years ago.
Longhorn will also support a legacy Classic display mode that will resemble the Windows 2000 UI.
Classic mode will be so awful, everyone will be running to the computer stores to buy software updates.
1 posted on
05/06/2004 6:07:18 PM PDT by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Longhorn will also support a legacy Classic display mode that will resemble the Windows 2000 UI.Can't they do anything without copying Apple?
2 posted on
05/06/2004 6:20:51 PM PDT by
Vermonter
To: HAL9000
Sounds pretty fancy .... one finds oneself wondering if all this overhead is going to find itself to their server operating systems (where it will be useful about 0.00001% of the time)?
3 posted on
05/06/2004 6:24:19 PM PDT by
The Duke
To: HAL9000
Sounds like the "ivory tower" folks at MicroSloth have fallen off the deep end.
Hey Kerry, how 'bout spending some serious time on basic Quality Control for the garbage you're currently distributing?
I am really sick of the "another week, another emergency security update" routine. Is this the best you can do?
5 posted on
05/06/2004 6:35:41 PM PDT by
upchuck
(Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - W. Churchill)
To: HAL9000
Does anyone remember when software was written to run on whatever hardware could be built?
Now it's the other way around.
6 posted on
05/06/2004 6:37:14 PM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: HAL9000
10 posted on
05/06/2004 8:11:35 PM PDT by
Abcdefg
To: HAL9000
By the time it comes out, most everyone that stays even remotely near "State of the art" will have DX9 compliant cards. We "Bleeding Edge" types will be using whatever replaces the PCI Express cards that are in beta now, and aftger playing with ATI's X600, they are niiiiiice. THe people and businesses that stay a release or two behind, due to stabilty fears and cost, won't be affected anyway.
To: HAL9000
14 posted on
05/06/2004 10:56:44 PM PDT by
dennisw
(Exposing John Kerry--> Swift Boat Veterans for Truth---> http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: HAL9000
Aero is Microsoft's attempt to copy the Quartz Extreme technology that Apple started shipping in Mac OS X a couple of years ago. Also notice they picked air (Aero) instead of water (Aqua) -- even ripping off Apple's naming scheme. Next up for Microsoft, Pyro and Geo.
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