From wikipedia: "Faced with ongoing delays and concerns about feature creep, Microsoft announced on August 27, 2004 that it was making changes. The original "Longhorn", based on the Windows XP source code, was scrapped, and Vista development started anew, building on the Windows Server 2003 codebase, and re-incorporating only the features that would be intended for an actual operating system release. "
The fact that the current code-base of Vista has been in development for 7 years is a myth. This gives Vista the same time-frame Leopard had. Yes, it was stupid of Microsoft that they ended up in such a hole that they had to scrape all their work.
I don't deny Vista having problems. I don't deny OS X having problems. Both of the bugs and poor engineering/design decisions kind. What I have a problem with is when it's Microsoft, everyone is up in arms about how M$ sucks, and when it's Apple everyone's like "it's okay. it's a 1.0 release. they'll fix it."
The only difference is, because it's Apple, people make excuses and say "oh, it's a new OS, it's natural there are bugs." When it's Microsoft, people's reaction is more akin to "M$ sucks! Windoze sucks! Burn it at the stake!". For the record, I installed Vista when it launched (in fact, I ran the beta exclusively the last few months), and didn't have any major problems aside from an incompatible codec that was fixed before the launch. I'm waiting to get my hands on Leopard to install on my MacBook (which blasphemously is running Vista almost exclusively, I still can't get used to a lack of taskbar) and see how things go.
They are not ignoring the Mac or Linux market. FTA: "It would be understandable if we'd only ever intended to launch an XP-only iPlayer, but that was never the plan." He had previously told.net magazine that the corporation had to launch to the biggest audience first.
People need to learn to read, instead of going up in arms. It seems that the choices were: "launch now for the majority of our users that is easy to implement, and follow up later with a solution that works for everyone" or "screw it, make everyone wait".
What's worse is there 'extra' fees to gouge customers. Recently, I wanted to switch from a monthly package to pay-as-you-go. My plan was $30 a month. System access fee was $7. 911 fee: 50 cents. None of the extra fees are advertised. Caller ID and voice mail: $6. With taxes, I was paying $50, for a plan I was barely using. I call and ask to switch to there pay-as-you-go service, where I was expecting to spend $20 a month on top-ups, and they offer me a $15 a month plan, no extra fees, and I get 50 minutes a month, which is more than I need.
From a purely client-side perspective, what he sees, the images, html and all that, is the front-end. What deals with all the different states on the client-side, is also the back-end.
Try Edge Magazine. It is by far one of the best magazines I've read out there. There previews (which they put in a section called 'Hype', which I find appropriate) have the guts to be critical. They have at least 3 articles per issue on general gaming issues with good writing and analysis, a cool 'Time Extend' feature which re-reviews an older game, along with stuff like interviews and the like.
In Opera, I can simply drag a tab in my main window to the desktop, and voila, a fullscreen app with minimal browser control. In fact, I can right click on the address bar and hide it. Simple, quick, and I don't need to have a separate 'app' for gmail.
I played the demo, and one thing that pissed me off about the graphics? There was too much going on, to the point where you couldn't focus on the action. Basically, every enemy explodes into hundreds of pieces of little screws that you pickup, and after you kill a couple, well, it's pretty much hard to see. I hate this whole "Hey! Let's see how many particles we can push!" thing most next-gen games try to do.
I would consider both Dell and Apple to be major venders, and both offer an alternative to Windows. Also, I am unaware of a company with an abbreviation of M DOLLAR SIGN that makes an OS. Could I have possibility missed it?
Any recommendation on a good, free, lightweight AV? I currently use AVG, but it pisses me off that whenever it decides to update, it likes to popup windows right in the middle of the screen that basically go "HAI! I DECIDED TO INTERRUPT WHATEVER YOU'RE WORKING ON SO I TELL YOU I'M UPDATING BECAUSE I'M SO COOL LIKE THAT AND YOU SUCK!"
I would say that it is their fault for allowing programs to utilize the entirity of the computer's resources.
Wait, so it's Microsoft's fault that a program beyond their control was coded so horribly? Can I also blame Apple when I installed that program that stopped me from being able to shutdown or restart my MacBook without doing a hard shutdown?
Its been a while since I used vista, but it seemed at the time there were quite a few options, including a couple of versions of sleep and full off.
I see Restart, Sleep, Hibernate and Shutdown. You can also Switch User, Log Off and Lock the computer, all of which are standard and available in Ubuntu's shutdown menu.
Ask any artist who deals with multiple monitors how much he likes working with Photoshop's interface on Windows. It's a nightmare. You can't just drag a document over to the other monitor. You have to expand the main window over to it to use it, and then you can only use a certain subset of the pixels.
I see your point. (I used to just drag the panels to the secondary monitor and have my main monitor with the image, which worked fine). Though, I did try what you're calling for (drag an image window over to the other monitor without expanding the main Window), and it worked. It's either something new in Vista or in CS3; my money is on CS3.
I would disagree that the MDI of Photoshop sucks. In fact, I prefer working in Photoshop on a PC rather than a mac, for the mere simple fact that Photoshop hides all the desktop clutter while allowing me to resize the images I'm working on, whereas on a mac, the desktop is always there as a distraction.
Also, I'd buy your argument if both the Dock and Expose came out at the same time. In the first releases of the OS, there was no Expose, and hence the Dock was designed to do what the taskbar is supposed to do in Windows. Clearly that wasn't the best solution, so Expose came later as an attempt to solve the problem.
And as I've said in other posts, Expose is not an ideal solution. With the taskbar I have an immediate view of all open windows, without any form of interaction. It also encourages a good computing habit in not having a lot of open Windows, since likely I don't need all the windows open.
I'm more concenred about the Column view for finder. There IS an option for it, but it doesn't seem to work. And this isn't just me, there's a few mac users around the office that I've asked, and they all have the same problem.
As for per-application grouping in the taskbar, I do two things: a) I never let it get that cluttered and b) I disable it;). I understand it's a design choice, but it's something I don't like. See, in Windows, there's plenty of Dock-alike applications. I wish there was the a taskbar-alike application for OS X!
The Dock shows what App you have open by showing its icon.
You also ignored what I wanted. It shows what app is open; it doesn't show what WINDOWS that app has open. There's a big difference. (Right-clicking on the icon to see the windows open is not a solution I'm looking for; it's all about seeing everything you need at a glance). Let's not forget that an app can be open when it has no windows open, leading one to assume that the app is closed when it is in fact still running.
If you want folders on top followed by files sort by "kind."
Won't that remove alphabetical sorting? I want files sorted alphabetically, with folders on top, followed by files. Granted, I admit this is more of a 'what-you're-used-to' thing more than anything.
I'm not sure about the column view, but I'm sure some googling will find a solution.
No amount of googling helped. Be my guest if you like.
Click-hold or right-click on one of them and you'll get a menu of open windows.
Here's the thing: I don't want to have to right click to see a menu of open windows. I want the open windows at a glance. Expose also involves performing an action to see open windows.
One thing I hate about OS X (which makes me not use it on my MacBook) is how useless the Dock is compaired to a taskbar. With a taskbar, I can at a glance see which programs are open as well as which WINDOWS in said programs are open, if there are any windows that need my attention (ie, an IM window that tells me WHICH contact has IM'd me) without having to fiddle around with Expose or the like. I've looked for a taskbar application for OS X, but can't find a decent one.
A couple of other minor annoyances:
- I wish Finder would remember that I prefer the column view.
- I think this is how *nix systems do it, but I prefer how Windows organizes folders at the top followed by files, as opposed to OS X where both folders and files are organized alphabetically together. It makes it easier to organize things and find things visually.
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The fact that the current code-base of Vista has been in development for 7 years is a myth. This gives Vista the same time-frame Leopard had. Yes, it was stupid of Microsoft that they ended up in such a hole that they had to scrape all their work.
I don't deny Vista having problems. I don't deny OS X having problems. Both of the bugs and poor engineering/design decisions kind. What I have a problem with is when it's Microsoft, everyone is up in arms about how M$ sucks, and when it's Apple everyone's like "it's okay. it's a 1.0 release. they'll fix it."
The only difference is, because it's Apple, people make excuses and say "oh, it's a new OS, it's natural there are bugs." When it's Microsoft, people's reaction is more akin to "M$ sucks! Windoze sucks! Burn it at the stake!". For the record, I installed Vista when it launched (in fact, I ran the beta exclusively the last few months), and didn't have any major problems aside from an incompatible codec that was fixed before the launch. I'm waiting to get my hands on Leopard to install on my MacBook (which blasphemously is running Vista almost exclusively, I still can't get used to a lack of taskbar) and see how things go.
People need to learn to read, instead of going up in arms. It seems that the choices were: "launch now for the majority of our users that is easy to implement, and follow up later with a solution that works for everyone" or "screw it, make everyone wait".
What's worse is there 'extra' fees to gouge customers. Recently, I wanted to switch from a monthly package to pay-as-you-go. My plan was $30 a month. System access fee was $7. 911 fee: 50 cents. None of the extra fees are advertised. Caller ID and voice mail: $6. With taxes, I was paying $50, for a plan I was barely using. I call and ask to switch to there pay-as-you-go service, where I was expecting to spend $20 a month on top-ups, and they offer me a $15 a month plan, no extra fees, and I get 50 minutes a month, which is more than I need.
From a purely client-side perspective, what he sees, the images, html and all that, is the front-end. What deals with all the different states on the client-side, is also the back-end.
Try Edge Magazine. It is by far one of the best magazines I've read out there. There previews (which they put in a section called 'Hype', which I find appropriate) have the guts to be critical. They have at least 3 articles per issue on general gaming issues with good writing and analysis, a cool 'Time Extend' feature which re-reviews an older game, along with stuff like interviews and the like.
There! Now you know someone! In fact, it annoys me that my work computer is still on XP.
In Opera, I can simply drag a tab in my main window to the desktop, and voila, a fullscreen app with minimal browser control. In fact, I can right click on the address bar and hide it. Simple, quick, and I don't need to have a separate 'app' for gmail.
I played the demo, and one thing that pissed me off about the graphics? There was too much going on, to the point where you couldn't focus on the action. Basically, every enemy explodes into hundreds of pieces of little screws that you pickup, and after you kill a couple, well, it's pretty much hard to see. I hate this whole "Hey! Let's see how many particles we can push!" thing most next-gen games try to do.
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I had looked for it before; I never noticed the scrollbar in the components list. In fact, it took me a while to notice it just now.
I'm fairly positive you can disable sounds in Avast fairly easily; I just stopped using it because I felt it used more resources than AVG.
I would consider both Dell and Apple to be major venders, and both offer an alternative to Windows. Also, I am unaware of a company with an abbreviation of M DOLLAR SIGN that makes an OS. Could I have possibility missed it?
Any recommendation on a good, free, lightweight AV? I currently use AVG, but it pisses me off that whenever it decides to update, it likes to popup windows right in the middle of the screen that basically go "HAI! I DECIDED TO INTERRUPT WHATEVER YOU'RE WORKING ON SO I TELL YOU I'M UPDATING BECAUSE I'M SO COOL LIKE THAT AND YOU SUCK!"
Wait, so it's Microsoft's fault that a program beyond their control was coded so horribly? Can I also blame Apple when I installed that program that stopped me from being able to shutdown or restart my MacBook without doing a hard shutdown?
Its been a while since I used vista, but it seemed at the time there were quite a few options, including a couple of versions of sleep and full off.
I see Restart, Sleep, Hibernate and Shutdown. You can also Switch User, Log Off and Lock the computer, all of which are standard and available in Ubuntu's shutdown menu.
I fail to see how Office is MDI. As far as I can remember, and this is true of 2007, every open document is an individual item on the task bar.
The separate drive was almost a year later. Technology comes down in price.
I see your point. (I used to just drag the panels to the secondary monitor and have my main monitor with the image, which worked fine). Though, I did try what you're calling for (drag an image window over to the other monitor without expanding the main Window), and it worked. It's either something new in Vista or in CS3; my money is on CS3.
I would disagree that the MDI of Photoshop sucks. In fact, I prefer working in Photoshop on a PC rather than a mac, for the mere simple fact that Photoshop hides all the desktop clutter while allowing me to resize the images I'm working on, whereas on a mac, the desktop is always there as a distraction.
Also, I'd buy your argument if both the Dock and Expose came out at the same time. In the first releases of the OS, there was no Expose, and hence the Dock was designed to do what the taskbar is supposed to do in Windows. Clearly that wasn't the best solution, so Expose came later as an attempt to solve the problem.
And as I've said in other posts, Expose is not an ideal solution. With the taskbar I have an immediate view of all open windows, without any form of interaction. It also encourages a good computing habit in not having a lot of open Windows, since likely I don't need all the windows open.
That option does not work. Frankly, I've no idea what it's supposed to be doing, because it definitely doesn't do what you think it does.
I'm more concenred about the Column view for finder. There IS an option for it, but it doesn't seem to work. And this isn't just me, there's a few mac users around the office that I've asked, and they all have the same problem. As for per-application grouping in the taskbar, I do two things: a) I never let it get that cluttered and b) I disable it ;). I understand it's a design choice, but it's something I don't like. See, in Windows, there's plenty of Dock-alike applications. I wish there was the a taskbar-alike application for OS X!
You also ignored what I wanted. It shows what app is open; it doesn't show what WINDOWS that app has open. There's a big difference. (Right-clicking on the icon to see the windows open is not a solution I'm looking for; it's all about seeing everything you need at a glance). Let's not forget that an app can be open when it has no windows open, leading one to assume that the app is closed when it is in fact still running. If you want folders on top followed by files sort by "kind."
Won't that remove alphabetical sorting? I want files sorted alphabetically, with folders on top, followed by files. Granted, I admit this is more of a 'what-you're-used-to' thing more than anything. I'm not sure about the column view, but I'm sure some googling will find a solution.
No amount of googling helped. Be my guest if you like.
Here's the thing: I don't want to have to right click to see a menu of open windows. I want the open windows at a glance. Expose also involves performing an action to see open windows.
One thing I hate about OS X (which makes me not use it on my MacBook) is how useless the Dock is compaired to a taskbar. With a taskbar, I can at a glance see which programs are open as well as which WINDOWS in said programs are open, if there are any windows that need my attention (ie, an IM window that tells me WHICH contact has IM'd me) without having to fiddle around with Expose or the like. I've looked for a taskbar application for OS X, but can't find a decent one. A couple of other minor annoyances: - I wish Finder would remember that I prefer the column view. - I think this is how *nix systems do it, but I prefer how Windows organizes folders at the top followed by files, as opposed to OS X where both folders and files are organized alphabetically together. It makes it easier to organize things and find things visually.