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The Roadmap to Leopard?
Alexandros Roussos writes with a link to the site MacScoop, which claims to have obtained a roadmap for the months leading up to Leopard's release. It's a straightforward article, stating how much access individuals outside the company will have access to the product prior to October. "Major build on early August - In a little more than a month, Apple's development team targets a feature-full build. The build that was provided to developers during the World Wide Developers Conference earlier this month is actually not totally feature frozen. Some minor features are currently being finished for the system. These features will arrive in the August build along with user-interface improvements, sources told MacScoop. If you expect major 'wow' features or interface changes, you will be disappointed. What we may expect is additional settings and [some] user interface polish[ing]. Among the most criticized parts of the new user interface [are] the new menu bar and Dock."
Among the most criticized parts of the new user interface [are] the new menu bar and Dock.
So basically the entire Desktop change is criticized. That's basically ALL that changed in Desktop: the menu and the dock.
It's kinda funny as well since it's the first time I've seen Mac lift "look and feel" straight from a Windows release (Vista).
. (1) The distinction between Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server is non existent. It's the only commercial operating system in the world where that's true.
.NET run fine on both. (Add in Vista's .NET technologies and Windows Mobile will already do things with Silverlight or the slimmed down version of .NET 3.0 that OS X itself can't even do running on a Mac let alone a phone.)
Do you realize Windows NT since 1992 has had a shared code base between the client and server versions. (You could literally make Windows NT Workstation into Server by changing a registry key.) The only exception is Windows 2003 Server which was delayed for security updates, and even then, it is still the same OS, but recompiled and a bit more optimized. Vista and Longhorn are essentially the same EXACT product as well, as Vista SP1 will be Longhorn without the server features.
Why are all the Mac experts clueless to anything non-Mac?
Oh BTW as to the iPhone and running OS X giving it an advantage is not as true as many would like to think. When development is closed to Web only widgets it is severly limited for creating custom solutions or doing anything outside of the 'Apple locked in Vision'.
Even though Windows and Windows Mobile have different architectures, applications designed for
This is why you are already seeing iPhone interface rip-offs running on Windows Mobile just to demonstrate it is not only possible, but insanely easy for Windows Mobile and a single developer to create what the iPhone UI is.