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Longhorn: 'imitation is a form of flattery'

updated 09:40 am EDT, Thu May 6, 2004

Longhorn looks like OS X


Microsoft's demo of Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, reminded PC Magazine of Mac OS X: "Microsoft's demonstrations were interesting and somehow familiar. After looking at some images and icons that grew bigger or flipped when chosen, I couldn't help but think of the dock on Apple's OS X. There's more to Longhorn, of course, than just that dock...Overall, though, Longhorn still had an Apple look to it. I suppose , after all. It'll be years before Longhorn launches, but it should be fun to watch it develop."


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  1. phillymjs

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    05/06, 10:04am | report spam | Reply |

    What, you expected them..

    ..to NOT copy Apple? Ha!

    Wow, it's WinHEC time again already? I can't believe it's been a year since they showed off that ugly concept PC that looked like a 23" Cinema Display with a phone handset sticking out of one side and a webcam on the other. How time does fly!

  1. DaedalusDX

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    05/06, 10:06am | report spam | Reply |

    Quartz

    The main part of this article speaks of the Windows's new display engine, Avalon.

    Mac OS X, however, has had Quartz technology since the developer previews in the late 20th century, and since 10.2, has had Quartz Extreme.

    Displayed elements Mac OS X are smoother on any machine that has Quartz Extreme support, and even on machines that do not support Quartz Extreme compared to any Windows machines.

    Dragging a window around on a PC, depending on the processor and video card, may cause inexplicable streaking behind the movement of the window. This does not happen in Mac OS X. The reason? quartz.

    Apple is easily 6 or 7 years ahead of Microsoft in this area, and the people who benefit are OS X users everywhere.

  1. eddd

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    pathetic

    This really is pathetic. With all of Microsoft's enormous wealth and supposed programming talent, they can't innovate something on their own (other than new ways to bother you with cute assistants and marketing hooks)? And they can't bring it to market in a timely manner (what's the latest ETA for Lonhorn... 2008?). And they still can't make it secure? For a company that is so incompetent and sells such garbage, I simply can't understand how they continue to thrive. Windows is so bad it truly offends me.

  1. testudo

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    05/06, 10:46am | report spam | Reply |

    Release date

    Microsoft says it'll be released in 2006. However, in the article, the guy writes

    Still, with Longhorn not arriving until 2007 (at the earliest), perhaps the DX9 requirement isn't such a reach.

  1. nat

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    05/06, 11:01am | report spam | Reply |

    garbage

    in the history of merchandise, has there ever been a more bug ridden product that has kept such a loyal following for so many years? i doubt that anything like this has ever happened before. most get a "lemon" label and fade away. microsoft gets stronger.

    i maintain that if yugo had microsoft idiots buy their car they'd still be in business. and still making crappy cars and their owners would continue to put up with it.

  1. Zaren

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    MS wants our...

    l**k and f**l

  1. Simon

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    05/06, 11:13am | report spam | Reply |

    longhorn is...

    vaporware.

    they will never get it done.

    here's gates trying to do a copland. he's only ten years late to the party.

  1. keittl

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    05/06, 11:22am | report spam | Reply |

    wow

    I had not seen any longhorn preview screenshots until now; I just looked some up.

    I have to say it's looks pretty crappy!

    They still have "Turn Off the Computer" accessible via the Start button.

    Other Human Computer Interface Design gems such as white text on a blue background and orange text on a white background to make things harder to read.

    Appart from that and a massive dock looking thing it all looks to me like a more poorly designed XP (in interface terms).

    But I am sure they are still working on the interface. In the next few years they should be able to come up with something usable one would think.

    http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/longhorn/Image26.jpg


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  1. Horsepoo!!!

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    Hahaha.

    Imitation is only flattery if it happens once or twice...but when it's been going on since 1984, it's an insult.

  1. testudo

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    Re: garbage

    in the history of merchandise, has there ever been a more bug ridden product that has kept such a loyal following for so many years? i doubt that anything like this has ever happened before. most get a "lemon" label and fade away. microsoft gets stronger.

    Wait, are you talking about OS X or Windows?

    longhorn is vaporware...they will never get it done.

    Well, you have to define "Longhorn" and "it". Longhorn as "the next version of windows" will be released sooner or later (I'll let you decide whether its the former or latter). However, they've already said that some of the really nifty stuff they were going to do (the file system being a large SQL Server database) is being trimmed (now its just using SQL Server to store indexing/searching info) or just pulled altogether. Its like OS X.0 (or Copland -> OS 8, although that would be more like if MS just took the Windows XP core and threw on top of it the new interface c***).

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