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: Vermonter
Well, Im not a MS fanatic, but I doubt very seriously they copied apple in offering a 'classic GUI'. And I say that in past tense because XP offers a Win2000 look. And there is only 7 months of difference between the release of XP and OS X. Not nearly the amount of time necessary for MS to see a concept ('classic gui') and copy it and actually have it work decently :-).
7 posted on
05/06/2004 6:48:35 PM PDT by
bigcheese
("Staring down the barrel at the Arab on the ground, I can see his open mouth, but I hear no sound.")
To: Vermonter
Can't they do anything without copying Apple?Good grief, "Classic" mode is standard terminology in software. Can I claim that the vaunted Apple Computer "copied" WinZip? As I'm sure you know, in 1996 WinZip introduced a new interface but kept the old interface as "classic mode".
12 posted on
05/06/2004 8:36:04 PM PDT by
mikegi
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