It appears that Mr. Vaughan-Nichols (e-week author) has no sense of imagination.
Maybe he is content with a seriously-ageing user interface, a file-system that hasn't really changed in decades, and a computer that behaves just like it does today, but a bit faster and a bit more stable.
I don't. I want:
The coolest looking interface I can find. How can MS achieve this? By delivering a swathe of new technology. What 'industry standard' is there for super-cool, hardware accelerated user interfaces??? None. Hence Avalon.
Not to keep manually looking for all my media files on my variousa storage devices with some (slow) explorer like program. I want a rich search engine for my desktop. How is google gonna help there?
And as for his decision that the Longhorn OS APIs will be closed, and communications proprietry - he obviously has no knowledge of these things. Everyone knows.NET can be decompiled (the Longhorn API is largely all managed code), and he has obviously never heard of Web services and all of the progress in the web services architecture area.
The thing is, I couldn't give a monkey's butt if Real Player goes away for good. It's second rate and noone likes it.
What I do care about is the future of computer interfaces - and this ruling just put us nearer to the command prompt a further from minority report.
So, let's say WMP is taken out for 'anti competitive' reasons. What next? Longhorn can't ship with Avalon (which was going to give me a cool 3d interface, a richer media experience, a touch of the future) becuase Macromedia get's scared that it will crush Flash and goes telling on them to the EU?
How ridiculously unfair is it to tell a company that it can only add new features 'as long as they aren't very good features' (i.e. no chance of competing)?
Would you want a bunch of dim-witted EU lawyers designing your next-gen product for you?
AARRRGGGH.
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Maybe he is content with a seriously-ageing user interface, a file-system that hasn't really changed in decades, and a computer that behaves just like it does today, but a bit faster and a bit more stable.
I don't. I want:
And as for his decision that the Longhorn OS APIs will be closed, and communications proprietry - he obviously has no knowledge of these things. Everyone knows
What a looser.
The thing is, I couldn't give a monkey's butt if Real Player goes away for good. It's second rate and noone likes it. What I do care about is the future of computer interfaces - and this ruling just put us nearer to the command prompt a further from minority report. So, let's say WMP is taken out for 'anti competitive' reasons. What next? Longhorn can't ship with Avalon (which was going to give me a cool 3d interface, a richer media experience, a touch of the future) becuase Macromedia get's scared that it will crush Flash and goes telling on them to the EU? How ridiculously unfair is it to tell a company that it can only add new features 'as long as they aren't very good features' (i.e. no chance of competing)? Would you want a bunch of dim-witted EU lawyers designing your next-gen product for you? AARRRGGGH.