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MS Vista Look and Feel To Go Cross-Platform
Robert writes "As part of the announcement of the next generation look and feel for Windows Vista,
Microsoft said that it will make a subset of the new presentation layer available for
other platforms. 'Windows Presentation Foundation', the look and feel which provides the rich front end for
Vista, will also eventually be available in compact form for other platforms such as the
Apple Macintosh, older
versions of Windows, and smart devices such as phones or PDAs."
It won't be part of the Vista release, set for the second half of next year.
No obviously not - but I wouldn't blame slashdot - if you've ever relied on slashdot to be a level headed 'tru-geek' site than you've you know you've been kidding yourself! (sorry slashdot, you know I love you..)
The best thing I ever did was configure my preferences so that certain stories got filtered out, & make sure I click on the right ones...anyone can spot an MS flame baiter a mile away, just don't click on them - unless you feel like it (as I did this Saturday morning).
Plus there are loads of Sections/stories that never make it to the front page, because they know that don't make it to the front page (check sections like BSD, linux, Developers), and they get far fewer but far more valid/useful comments - again you're going to have to do some self configuration, becasue the owners of the website know just as well that people that MS-it stories are more popular with anonymous cowards/people without an account/urge to configure - more specialized areas (ie. true computing, not IT) can bee found no slashdot, but not often of the front page.
You can also start browsing on a higher comment filter (although I wouldn't recommend this), OR start lavishly using your 'foes' setting, so that whenever you see a +5 funny comment which is actually -7 funny, just filter them out for life.
Seriously I wish that the slashdot lords would take my suggestion seriously - funny should be limited to +3. Otherwise it just eats up half the page, which things that aren't actually that funny, just stupid/anti-ms.
Also RSS feeds to Newsforge, Newsvac (a subsection of newsforge) & osnews are good...you'll soon notice that stories get there first, and more focused ones ('sylpheed cli messaging client released! review of Ipython, etc.). In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw a submission by roblimo on OSnews the other day.
I still hang around on slashdot for the community feel (yeah I know, sad isn't it!) - you get some interesting discussion, you just need to pick up a feel for which stories you know you want to avoid.
You can't entirely blame slashdot. They get more sponsporship revenue with more users. If you care, _you can_ configure the website to be more geeky/root out geek stories, just don't expect it by default.
"You know you don't act like a scientist, you're more like a game show host." Dana Barret
1) No one here uses firefox
2) No one here reads the article
One of these seems more likely than the other
I had no idea Slashdot had 805,747 members in 1998. Wow. And to think, they only gained another 50,000 users before I got a username last year. They really have slowed down.