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Yeh-hessss, it's fun to watch, isn't it? I mean, look at these parasitic pundits start to cave. It's like rats fleeing a sinking ship. I swear, these guys are running for cover faster than kids with brittle-bone disease caught in a hailstorm.

Face it, all you Windows dorks -- Microsoft is dying. The death throes of agony have begun. Yeh-hehessss . . . I hereby suggest that we begin the Official Microsoft Death Knell Counter right here and now. I mean, come onnnnn, it'll be even more fun than watching Woody Allen's career tank! Or Star Jones waistline expand.

Heyyy, I keed the jewish . . . and the gluttonous.

well fsck me, thurrot finally says something intelligent!

Turdrrot is joking right? Windows is losing credibility fast. Won't be long before the ship starts to sink at a faster rate!

" . . . the Aero Glass user interface . . . "

Ohh, how brilliant! "Aero Glass". Well it took Redmond long enough, but . . .

. . . hopefully the Aero Glass on these new Windows will enable more of the mindless drones who use this operating system to see clearly through the "computer pane" -- all the way to Mac OS X.

Bah... Who writes this MDN commentary crap? You sound exactly like a Windows fanatic talking about .dll hacks; no better and certainly no less. This site is getting incredibly childish.

So maybe we need a sticker which says "OS X inside"?

Jobs-ian Savior: Good one!

Bah: Humbug.

"[...] 'Aero Glass'. Well it took Redmond long enough [...]"

Actually, what even funnier is that shortly after Apple introduced "Aqua", Microsoft showed "Aero." Now that they've added translucency, they've stuck "Glass" onto the end.

Oh, and Tiger begins support for high-resolution displays--part of the reason they are "discontinuing" QuickDraw...

Get a load of the comments on that thread. Hilarious. Particularly from the Windows fanboys. They're so dissapointed and embarassed by MS inability to make a decent OS.

Translusent windows came out in 2001 with Mac OS X v10.0.
iPod 2001
iTunes, what, 2002.

5 years later MS introduces, what, transluscent windows and a music store.....I'd be embarrassed too.....pathetic.

Thurrott, overall, has been pretty kind to Macs lately. If Microsoft continues to stall and sputter, he may just switch for good! And then MDN will be much kinder to him.

After all, would YOU want to run a "Super Site For Windows" with nothing to report but the latest delay of the release of vastly inferior vaporware or the latest, greatest security patch? Keep in mind, he'll have to do this for the next YEAR AND A HALF. Methinks he's gonna be using that PowerBook a LOT.

MDN Magic Word: become
Thurrott will become disenfranchised with Microsoft.

By the way, MDN take: hahahahahahahahaha

Can somebody explain to me, please, the use of an "authors" smart folder? Unless it automatically filters out documents that I created, it's just gonna show me every single document on my computer.

There must be something pretty obvious here that I'm not getting.

Paul really hasn't proven he's warmed up to Macs... one does not convert (or switch) just by declaring it or by writing few favorable comments about OS X. I'll believe him when he FULLY switches over. Methinks he's experiencing very slow stream of news from MS these days, well, with Longhorn being such a vaporware and all.

MDN Magic word: church
As in "Paul hasn't been baptized at the church of OS X."

I like the way he calls the people here children for accusing microsoft of taking the "it just works" slogan, he counters that it has been mentioned in reference to microsoft for many years. He fails to realise that saying something just works isn't the same as actually just working.

And it took them 10,000 hours of meetings to all agree on adding the Glass to the Aero!

The release of Longhorn will just push back the release date for the next Duke Nuk'em.

Bea Arthur? I'd tap that.

Thurrott's "Tiger Feature of the Day" mini-reviews are worth reading.

Magic word: economic - as in, 'Bill Gates is being economic with the truth when he claims Longhorn will ship in 2006'

Guys.. when you run a search in spotlight.. you just start typing.. dates, characteristics, anything you can think about the file..

BILL GATES WANTS YOU TO ATTACH KEYWORDS TO YOUR DOCUMENTS..

*groan

If you have a file in mind, say a word document, and you remember NOTHING ABOUT IT.. ARE YOU GOING TO REMEMBER THE KEYWORD you chose for the file (here's a thought.. if you could remember a keyword, youd' be able to remember the file name, or a cluster of words in the document.. or the name of ONE OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY"

Bill Gates thinks he's being clever by going 100% applying iTunes interface to every single aspect of Windows.

The end result is some pretty redundant features.. yeesh..

BTW..

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/winhec_tabletpc_06.jpg

Here's an example of MS just NOT GETTING IT..

see the toolbar.. notice how it's see through? You may say to yourself.. that's annoying to look at.. if i had a detailed wallpaper, the buttons would be hard to see..

yup. in fact, there's no conceivable advantage to having see through toolbars.. see how they have to gradient around the actual buttons.. because.. of course, they would IMPOSSIBLE to see without a background..

Gee .. can you tell MS wants to show of the graphical capabilities of.. Aero.. or whatever.. but has no clue what the practical use of this technology is???

Oh well I can think of one: making money.

And to think.. when Exposé came out.. Windows Lemmings were crying EYE CANDY...

Wake me when M$ becomes "beleaguered"

Thurrott is sounding more schizophrenic every day. I wonder if he holds verbal debates with himself over Windoze and OS X...

Didn't he just write a column last week saying Tiger was a disappointment and that Longhorn has much higher potential? Now this week he's saying this? Why do you fools even read this tools drivel is beyond me....

The comments from his page are funny, but typical and very real. I think many people are used to fixing Windows-- it seems machine-like. Harley-Davidson's used to need a mechanic right out the factory door. Their buyers loved it. To tinker and fix meant something about the owner-- a real do it yourselfer. Over time, though, many people began to appreciate better engineering and they had to step it up a bit.

Same phenomenon is going on here, but they haven't exactly made that quality leap yet. They are trying, though. No one should be complacent. Windows has always been inferior, yet it still dominated.

There is work to do to teach the unwashed masses...

RE: M.N.X.N.T.4.1

SINCE WHEN HAS THE SLOGAN -'JUST WORKS' EVER BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH MICROSOFT????

Windows has NEVER worked - period!

Their new slogan should be - 'IT MIGHT WORK - THEN AGAIN IT MIGHT NOT'.

You have NO idea of what is about to hit you...Longhorn will leapfrog over OS X in such a dramatic way that your tongues will reach the ground!

My next box will be an Apple box. The PM looks like a go for me... but I may need something more portable so I may have to settle for the aging PB line.

The box I get after that will definitely be a Windows box. I hope Longhorn is out around that time.

As long as I can get things done on the machine, I don't really care if Longhorn looks like Tiger, or vice-versa.

One of the cooler things I like about Windows-based boxes, newer technologies are implemented faster. I've been waiting on Apple for over a year to come up with something interesting... and I'm still waiting. :(

Screw Aqua and Aero...Evangeline Lilly is hot!

A New Mac User - I fully agree that the it just works slogan is in no way applicable to microsoft, in accordance with this post: http://www.internet-nexus.com/2005_04_17_archive.htm#111426206683392947 he claims that it has been in use in relation to microsoft for many years. My point was that even if some people had said of microsoft that their tech "just works" saying it does not make it true, when apple started using it they at least had the products to back up the claim.

I, for one, cannot wait for "Unicorn"... err, "Longhorn" to ship. My life is getting hectic keeping up with all the latest computer technologies, and it will be a relief to step back to late 2001...

After Longwaits Alpha and Beta releases, will the next one be called CaCa?

If they gave a copy of it to Thurrot (or should that be Thought-not), would it be a case of "the CaCa hitting the fan" ?

Good point up above about the "authors" smart folder. I guess that feature would have been great on OS 9, before we switched to Users in OS X. Certainly Longhorn will allow the computer to have distinct users and seperate all of their items? My 5-year-old totally understands the concept and can easily switch to her account and use her programs.
Or is your average PC user to confused to make that work?

Seriously, will seperate users accounts be part of Longhorn? I didn't notice anything in Thurott's article... although, to be honest, I just scanned it.

Most of the times I've heard "It Just Works" was in situations like this... after someone has used a Mac for the first time for a week and have gotten pictures and video clips from their camera, put them into iPhoto and iMovie for correction, bundle that all together in iDVD and produce something nice for someone's birthday. Then, after explaining how they did it, they incredulously say to me,"It Just Works!"

Anyone that has not used a Macintosh and are unaware of the truly glorious idea of universal drag and drop really doesn't understand what that phrase means.

"One of the cooler things I like about Windows-based boxes, newer technologies are implemented faster."
Absolutely true in a lot of cases, but they're usually implemented better on the Mac. USB and Bluetooth are excellent examples of things that were attached to PC motherboards for some time but only really became actually USEFUL when applied to the Mac.

A hybrid memory system, combining a hard drive and flash memory, has been demonstrated by Samsung and Microsoft. The aim is to combine the fast read/write access times of NAND flash with the storage capacity of a rotating hard drive. By using the 1Gbit flash as a cache for the hard drive, the drive does not need to spin continuously. When the write buffer is full, the drive is spun up and data written to magnetic storage.

Boot up times can also be reduced, claimed the firms, by using the flash as a boot buffer during shut-down. Microsoft calls the device a hybrid hard drive (HHD). It is designed to work with Longhorn, the next generation of Windows. "Hybrid drive architecture... is an advancement that will improve the performance and reliability of any computer using the Windows Longhorn operating system," said Tom Phillips, general manager of Microsoft's Windows group.

ht: "You have NO idea of what is about to hit you...Longhorn will leapfrog over OS X in such a dramatic way that your tongues will reach the ground!"

Let's Super Trooper-ize this statement:

Trooper: "Listen up right moo!"

Stoner 1: "Dude...did you just say Moo?"

Trooper: "You have MOO idea of what is about to hit moo...Longmoo will leapfrog over OS X in such a dramatic moo that your tongues will reach the moo!"

Stoner 2: "I'm freakin out man! I'm freakin out!"

"By using the 1Gbit flash as a cache for the hard drive, the drive does not need to spin continuously. When the write buffer is full, the drive is spun up and data written to magnetic storage.

Boot up times can also be reduced, claimed the firms, by using the flash as a boot buffer during shut-down. Microsoft calls the device a hybrid hard drive (HHD)."

Hmmm ... sounds like how an iPod already works! Good copying there!

APPLE: Aqua Quartz
MSFT: Aero Glass

A coincidence that these sound and look similar?

I think MICROSOFT should change its name to COPYSOFT.

- Mark

As I recall, OS 10.0 wasnt exactly that great in its release. Actually it wasnt until 10.3 that I began to be satisfied with Quartz.

"By using the 1Gbit flash as a cache for the hard drive, the drive does not need to spin continuously. When the write buffer is full, the drive is spun up and data written to magnetic storage.

Boot up times can also be reduced, claimed the firms, by using the flash as a boot buffer during shut-down. Microsoft calls the device a hybrid hard drive (HHD)."

Hmmm ... sounds like how an iPod already works! Good copying there!


Only you Thor, would make such an ignorant statement.

APPLE: Aqua Quartz
MSFT: Aero Glass

A coincidence that these sound and look similar?

Mark, They dont sound similar.

Gimp, "Only you Thor, would make such an ignorant statement."

Gimp, looks like you've done some deep anal-ysis there! Obviously have some issues otherwise you wouldn't be so defensive!

OS X 10.1 was usable (with lots of updates), and OS X 10.2 was a great improvement. OS X 10.3 was a minor refinement by comparison, but still worthy improvements in speed and functionality. Quartz is actually but one part of OS X.

Aqua Quartz and Aero Glass sound more similar than they are different but nothing to get concerned about. Microsoft will be more interested in copying other OS X features (as usual).

An interesting thread here:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/04/23.html#a9915

Click on the "Comment" button at the bottom right of the article:

"Steve Jobs claims Microsoft is "shamelessly copying""

Robert Scoble works for Microsoft, and has this private blog which includes lots of Microsoft content. He is a blogging apologist. I'll let you make up your own mind about Microsoft.

"Actually, what even funnier is that shortly after Apple introduced "Aqua", Microsoft showed "Aero." Now that they've added translucency, they've stuck "Glass" onto the end." - Peter

Well, this is how much they have confidence in their Longhorn. The Glass does not contains any Aqua. Instead the Glass is full of Aero, in other words, the glass is empty. Not even half empty, but fully empty.

Aww geez, Thurrott said something good about Apple again. I guess that means we're near the apocalypse again. Dogs and cats living together, all that stuff.

That MDN take was classic. Mmmmmm....Evangaline Lilly...

Some of the comments here make no sense.

Thurrott "finally warming up to Macs?" Nobody read that he's voluntarily been purchasing them for years?

"What's next, a switch ad for Dvorak?" You mean you don't remember how he used to be the back page columnist for the old MacUser magazine?

You guys just like to make up enemies, don't you? It's bad practice...you lose sight of who the real enemies are.

^ It's not just 'Come on you guys' . . .

It's COMEONYOUGUYS-tastic!

A link to some uninspiring Windows Longhorn (v5048) screenshots: http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.php?catid=1&shownews=12884

See here, look at this nonsense. Microsoft is adding to all Documents:

Authors
Keywords
Rating
Recent
Types

by default. And people accuse Apple of micromanaging the user experience!

Like you can't figure out how to organize your files, and Spotlight can find it no matter where it is? Here MS is already forcing you into their mold so that their WEAK serach technology has a chance of working.

This is rich. (But not rich media.)

This was a time MDN when you should of praised Paul.

I love bashing Paul as much as the next guy, but you should of taken this opportunity to praise him for being objective and talking up the Mac. This is why we get such a bad reputation.

While the rest of the PC world continues to enjoy a superior technological platform, delusioned Mac fanatics continue to live in their dreamworld where all that matters is an operating system with bling bling. LOL.

Back off of Bea Arthur, please

Hey look everyone - Milkmaid Sammy is back with some fresh dairy for us all! One wonders why he's isn't off enjoying his superior technology some place else...

Got Moo?

Where I work I got plenty of time to see what ignorant, biased-up-to-the-ass (LOL) garbage people like Bill post all day.

Sam, your really do make my day. Today was a snooze fest until you came along and brightened it up. Now,

1) It's not "I got" it's "I have"...ignorant indeed.

2) What makes you think garbage people are biased like me? Furthermore, what do garbage people have to do with the topic at hand? Really Sam your A.D.D. is out of control.

3) Say what you mean so that you mean what you say. It's the key to effective communication. Moo.