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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."
From what I understand, the advertising campaign Microsoft is launching (it's quite large too) has absolutly nothing to do with Longhorn. They are simply addressing XP.
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...or if you prefer, it just crashes.
I've got too much experience with Windows to consider it for an enterprise environment.
Did anyone bother to ask the customers what they want?
Actually "It Just Works" was a slogan MS were using to describe Windows XP at one point. Four years ago if this is any measure.
I thought Windows already had the ability to set Hard links & junctions.
The Internet Explorer, Recycle Bin, "My Network places" icons are links, not shortcuts, right?
With a shortcut, you can modify the shortcut metadata without affecting the metadata of the target. But with these dudes, you modify one set of meta data and it affects all of the icons.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
$ ln -s /foo/bar/say_it_aint_so ~/say_it_aint_so
When iTunes first came out, WinAmp users were still organizing MP3 files in directories, saving dozens of playlists, and spending hours on tag management and file name synching.
Real had some media management, so did Musicmatch, but they were both messy, confusing, cramped, and slow to search.
Right from the beginning, iTunes changed music from a wild collection of files on the hard-drive that had to be periodically coralled to a single library entity, searchable, playable, with built-in tag editing that put everything else to shame.
It took the effort out of having a music library. A lot of geeks are still frustrated with it because they got all their file directory skills for MP3s down pat and the new way doesn't fit them, but can you honestly see twelve year old girls organizing thousands of songs the old way?
It brought MP3 truly to the masses, not just the college crowd.
Is it even theoretically possible to embed computer code in a JPEG file and execute it through the viewer? No, this is not even theoretically possible.
I must have dreamed then when this came up.
Thanks for clearing that up Mr. Troll Coward, Sir.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
When a file is opened on an HFS+ volume, the following conditions are tested:
If all of the above conditions are satisfied, the file is relocated -- it is defragmented on-the-fly.
English is easier said than done.
Isn't this going to be the version with DRM and all the other copy "protection" crap.
I'm sure it won't work like linux, eg you can copy it, maniuplate it, move it arround from pc to pc, store it on your local servers for quick downloads and access, without a license, with out a phonecall to microsoft.
Linux will work wether I have a CD, DVD, USB, network access, or even bootstrap floppy without much effort.
Linux will work as a terminal or a server right out of the box.
Linux will work on 32mb ram with a 400 mb disk and
a tty text console.
Linux will work on a 2048 node supercomputer parallel cluster.
Linux will work on x86, x86-64, dec, sparc, mips, power-pc, and even ARM.
GNU/Linux will work for editing, spread sheets, graphics, office productivity, mail servers, database servers, web servers, dns servers, smb servers, and development in over 10 different languages right out if the box.
So how is microsift claming "it just works" again?