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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."
You're absolutely right. Linux is far too inferior to be able to handle the complex eyecandy Vista offers. I mean, heck, Windows won't be able to support it until a year from now. Yup, I'd reckon Linux won't be able to support that for a few ye... Wait, isn't X11R7 coming out in October? Linux can't have graphics! It can't be able to support as much eyecandy a year sooner! They're just a bunch of kids writing code for free! This is madness!
Do you Gentoo?
How the hell can you transfer the Windows look and feel to other platforms?
It's as dumb as taking one culture's social norms and dumping them onto another's culture. Of course, we've learned in the past that such an approach leads to death and destruction.
There are only two options here: (1) Microsoft is stupid, or (2) Microsoft would like to encourage death and destruction.
I Can understand why a mac user would have trouble have trouble using TWO mouse buttons, god forbid one of them newfangled mice with 3 or 4...
Of course they didn't implement the native Windows widgets. Apple knows how to do UI, so they're just showing Joe Sixpack on his WinXp boxen how it's been done and how it should be done. It doesn't spoil the Windows "user experience", since it is already on a low level.
Now, the other way around would, namely forcing inferior UI widgets onto a superior UI would significantly ruin the user experience (which is what Apple is all about), while that is not true if you force superior UI elements onto an inferior UI.
Mac OS X users have from time to time been exposed to such environmental pollution. For instance, the ugliest port in the world is probably Wenlin, a Chinese study program. It makes me puke everytime I see its ugly Windows widgets, but unfortunately there's no alternative as of now.
Mosty Mac users react very negatively to such UI disturbances. Therefore, apps that do not comply to the Mac UI guidelines WILL fail to be killer apps, no matter how well they perform.
ROTFLMAO!
Suuurrreee, I'm *real* likely to replace my Mac UI with a WIndows UI... just like I'm *real* likely to, oh, replace a BMW Z3 with a Dodge Colt, or my house with a tent trailer, or my righthand with a claw.
Come to think of it, a claw might be kind of cool... unlike Vista.
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start > run > cmd > format c:
From now on, I'm making my used toilet paper available for anyone else's use.
I can't wait to make my PowerBook look and act like a Waindows machine.
You have once again proudly proved what you are most capable of: Producing technology already created over 5 years ago to support Mozilla. Give yourselves a huge pat on the back.
Anyone else have a mental image of a monkey throwing its own waste, after reading that title?
M$ if you are reading this, please keep your own crap to yourself. No one wants it, thanks.