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Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All
cremou brulee writes "Redmond's photocopiers have been unusually busy for the last couple of years, with the result that Windows 7 copies a lots of Mac OS X features. First and foremost among these is the Dock, which has been unceremoniously ripped off in Windows 7's new Taskbar. Or has it? Ars Technica has taken an in-depth look at the history and evolution of the Taskbar, and shows just how MS arrived at the Windows 7 'Superbar.' The differences between the Superbar and the Dock are analyzed in detail. The surprising conclusion? 'Ultimately, the new Taskbar is not Mac-like in any important way, and only the most facile of analyses would claim that it is.'"
It waddles. It quacks. It's a camel!
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
This is how the article read to me: cockballs fuckshit windows lickass apple poopsperm paradigm groinsocket different all in all, most obvious comparison ever; thanks for the information everyone already knows.
Windows 7 - KDE4 for Windows ~
'Ultimately, the new Taskbar is not Mac-like in any important way, and only the most facile of analyses would claim that it is.'
If by that he means to say that "the way it looks, feels and acts" are not important criteria for comparing the Mac OS X dock and Windows 7's Superbar, then I have to agree with him completely and whole-heartedly. I imagine the source code of each are completely different right?
Windows 7 'Superbar.'
I'm going to get rich when I invent a machine that lets me stab people in the face over the internet.
Except there wont be anyone to run my marketing campaign :(
Sorry everyone, Wendy's had the Superbar long before anyone else.
Seriously though, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Who gives a shit if the "Superbar" looks like the "Dock" or if one car looks like another or if three movies came out this year with suspiciously similar premises.
I would like to believe an OSS equivalent might be called "Open Bar",
but experience tells me it would be named something impenetrable like
"SpackleMonkey" or a difficult to pronounce word from a long dead language.
Nonsense. OSX is the holy grail of computing. It even cures cancer!
...which, I suppose, means Steve Jobs secretly uses Windows.
Windows has a recycling bin but Apple still has trash.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I don't know. Jim Carey got a lot of attention by talking out of his ass. I think he tried to make it part of his bit.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
There are several Vista keyboards. They are the Basic vista keyboard, Basic home vista keyboard, home vista keyboard, basic business vista keyboard, business vista keyboard, and professional business vista keyboard.
The basic vista keyboard looks just like the professional business vista keyboard, but you cannot use more than a single key at once and you have to call microsoft hardware support to activate your end user license before all the keys work. Also if you do not activate it before the 30 day trial the only text written to an application upon use of the keyboard is "activate.microsoft.com"
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Ok, they're either Linux zealots or daemon worshippers then.
Is your monitor really that reflective, AC?
Twitter is that you? Hasn't there been a court order to stay on the meds yet?
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
...and there is a cap on 10 words per minute. If you type faster than that, you get a warning on license violation. Three strikes and your keyboard bricks until you call Microsoft and upgrade.
-- dnl
Actually, both of you hit two heads of the same nail/
That has to be the oddest analogy I have seen yet on Slashdot. I have never heard of a two-headed nail, nor can I really conceive why such a nail would be at all better than the standard one-headed nail.
But taking into account your 4-digit ID, perhaps you are old enough to remember a time when we used two-headed nails and were lucky to have them, or were grateful for them, or something like that.
Funtime Candy Wow! - my plan for eventually conquering Japan.