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Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works
bonch writes "Fortune has a story about Microsoft's new philosophy--'It just works.' Jim Allchin details various planned Longhorn features to meet this goal, such as auto-defragmenting in the background, the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously, and the new ad campaign Microsoft is running to get people excited about Windows. Mentions are also made of the competition from Linux, OS X Tiger, and Google."
auto-defragmenting in the background HFS+
NTFS was designed to reduce the fragmentation when every file was written.
Additionally since Win2k, Windows has done de-fragmenting in the background. Something the other 'unnamed' OSes have just started to catch up to.
And if anyone wants to debate HFS+ to NTFS, go for it. NTFS was natively a Journelled File system with no performance impact on system back in 1993, let alone todays modern systems.
For Apple to keep journaling off because of performance reasons in the first releases of OSX says a lot about the difference in the development. If Microsoft could pull high performance with journaling on back in 1993, why couldn't Apple pull it off in 2001 when the hardware was 10-20 times faster?
If anyone here knew much about Windows they would know exactly what the quote was referring to, and it is not simply background de-fragmenting.
ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously symlinks, Smart Folders
And you point here is? Windows NTFS was built with regard to symbolic and hard-links, and it was implemented in the Win32 API back in the 1990s and has been available to any Windows user since then.
As for search folders, Win95 had the ability to save 'search' folders, but not many people used them. This is why Microsoft decided to create a new search folder system that was announced for their OS back in 2001, and even implemented in Office 2003 in Outlook long before Apple even considered adding it to Tiger.
People that know so little about MS technology are the first ones to champion Apple for their 'innovations', when the people that actually know a bit about the technology like myself just shake our heads at the Apple marketing machines and watch the zealots lick up anything Apple says as the truth and give them the credit of creating everything...
For every Apple user out there that doesn't think Microsoft 'innovates' or has influenced Apple more than they realize. I want you to do this one test on your Mac, or even any modern *nix. Open your word processor, Type "I Love Apple" Select it (highlight it), and the change its font, then change its color, then make it italic.
Guess what, this was a Microsoft innovation from Word back in the 1980s. The whole GUI concept of SELECT AND MODIFY came from Microsoft, NOT APPLE.
So it is quite ironic that as these people are typing stuff, highlighting and modifying whatever they type THROUGHOUT their precious OS, they are using a Microsoft Innovated Concept that has been copied into EVERY GUI based OS since the 1980s.
So next time you select something and modify it, thank Microsoft. The next time you command click a mis-spelled word that is underlined in red, thank Microsoft, the next time you pick up text in your document and drag it to another location or another application entirely, thank Microsoft.
And these are such fundamental ideals in the modern GUI based Oses like OSX, people forget that it all came from Redmond, and continue to use these clever features while they bash Microsoft for never Innovating...
Geesh...
PS, this post is directed more at the thread than your post specifically, so don't take everything I have said as being directed to your post.
Apple: proudly stealing from Xerox from the advent of the Lisa.
"Microsoft: proudly stealing Apple's ideas since Windows 1.0"
Actually, Apple really can't cast any stones about that.
"Derp de derp."