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Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX
Theaetetus writes "Microsoft today unveiled its most detailed look yet at its new OS, Longhorn, due in 2006, during Bill Gates' keynote speech at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. An article at Internet Week describes some of the goals: avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.'" The company "also unveiled 'WinFX,' which it described as a new application programming model for Windows that is the evolution of its .NET programming framework."
It's not so bad, they will avoid viruses and be as smart as outlook.
At least they'll be able to meet it. Outlook is already the lower layer of scum in the scpetic tank, after all. Can't get much worse.
Up yours. If I want to run an executable from my email, I should be able to do that. Don't assume that because your users (or you) are too stupid to tell the difference between an executable and an archive and click or not click appropriately that I too suffer from the same problem.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Apple copies a feature from a crippleware author ....
Like?
The only thing I've heard is that guy that wrote LiteSwitch X. Personally, I think that guy's ego is pretty big to think that the new cmd-tab feature in Panther was taken directly from LiteSwitch X. As other have mentioned, not only does the WinXP app switcher look very close, but many people that have never even seen LiteSwitch X have commented that the new Panther app switcher is exactly how they would have implemented it from scratch. There are only so many ways you can do an app switcher and still make it look good and be useable, so I think this guy from LiteSwitch X is truly just whining.
Aside from that, I haven't heard any major gripes about Apple copying features from crippleware authors. Care to share?
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Most of *any* speech recognition is going to be from research done on [cough] *nix machines of the past decade
Yeah, the Billions in research MS spent has nothing to do with speech technology. You are kidding right?
You do realize that MS had speech recognition software back in 1992 (Windows Sound System ring a bell?)
Additionally, IBM has had business level speech recognition hardware and software since the late 80's. Again, not on *nix platforms.
So where are the great *nix speech recognition and synthesis applications?
Hell, it would be nice if most *nix variants could even multiplex sound in real-time.
Thusly it will be more complex, thus more fragile and unstable. Ever build anything out of glue and toothpicks? What happened when the glue got wet? Or the structure got too big?It fell down.
Oh, don't forget, who really gives a shit about all these bells and whistles? It is part of the conspiracy to make you piss away your hard earned money or more software, hardware and bright, shiny blinky blink toys. Welcome to throwaway consumerism. The Great Evil of our time...