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Mac OS X 'Panther': User at the Center

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the piling-it-on dept.

MatthewRothenberg writes "Over at eWEEK, we believe we've got the drop on the much-discussed interface enhancements to Mac OS X 10.3, a k a Panther: The theme of this September release will be 'User at the Center,' an umbrella term for a variety of new features aimed at leapfrogging Microsoft when it comes to pervasive, user-focused computing. Niceties include user-configurable 'piles,' a fast-user-switching-type feature, and easy transferral of home directories among devices and the Web. Oh, and it's mo' definitely 64-bit-complete, too."

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  1. I see trouble abrewing... by confused+philosopher · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Features of the OS reportedly won't be frozen until May"

    And it is due in September! Can you say scope creep!

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  2. Re:Doesn't matter by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 0, Troll

    LoL. Yeah. Apple sucks because they don't compete with Taiwanese no-name clones.

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  3. Re:Doesn't matter by superdan2k · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then why are you bothering to read this, much less comment on it? Boo-fucking-hoo. You won't buy OSX until it runs in a poorly-designed beige shitbox that you can hack to hell and gone. And when OSX starts to bloat up so that it can support all the cheap two-bit (not file size) junk that floats around in the PC world, you can bitch about the "old days" when OSX was a tight, well-constructed OS instead of a pile of kludges like Windows.

    No OSX for you? Darn. I'd hate to see a narrow-minded troll running my favorite OS.

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  4. Re:OS X is based on BSD and BSD rules! by Beek · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd like to open her source!

    *gets slapped 50 times*

  5. Fast User Switching? by RumpRoast · · Score: 1, Troll

    What a concept! More than one person logged on to a machine at the same time, running apps in thier own space... Amazing! What will they think of next?

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