Smidget, it is called progress. We can do so much more today with all the myriad development ressources at our command.
In response to the other posters, all I can say is that while there may be other "projects" like Looking Glass and Cairo, Avalon is not just an experiment, it is really going to be on many, many systems. There's a big difference. It will really be used by many, many businesses and people. Its not going to be an option. Microsoft's future OSes will have Avalon graphics system built-in. Don't you see the importance of this?
Until I can install a Linux distro that has LG or Cairo on it by default, and that I have great development tools, and that I have a sufficiently large target userbase running it, it means squat.
I think you don't quite know what you're talking about. Have you ever seen the application "Google Earth"? Well, imagine creating an application with nice 3D animation like that is a NO BRAINER. That's what Avalon + the new developer tools +.NET on Windows Vista will let you do, easier than a fart.
Linux fan boys, enjoy your GCC.
There is no absence of innovation or new features. Avalon, the new graphics subsystem, and the developer tools that will allow you to develop for it, have leapfrogged everything I have ever seen. While Linux will still be using the 2D capabilities of a graphics card (sucks!) Microsoft Vista will be using all that tremendous 3D technology already present in our machines to render your desktop. 3rd party apps will be using it too. Yes, at first it feels like it will need ebtter equipment, but when you finally get that equipment and your pathetic X-Window or other Linux windowing system looks ridiculously passé when compared to Windows Vista, you'll realize Microsoft is no longer trying to catch up to OS X, which is already a much more polished OS than any Linux flavor.
Tell me you are using rechargeables, at least, right?
Anyway, this mouse seems great - I also wish it was Bluetooth. I would get one. As it stands, I do not wish to have cords in my current environment, so it will have to wait.
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Smidget, it is called progress. We can do so much more today with all the myriad development ressources at our command. In response to the other posters, all I can say is that while there may be other "projects" like Looking Glass and Cairo, Avalon is not just an experiment, it is really going to be on many, many systems. There's a big difference. It will really be used by many, many businesses and people. Its not going to be an option. Microsoft's future OSes will have Avalon graphics system built-in. Don't you see the importance of this? Until I can install a Linux distro that has LG or Cairo on it by default, and that I have great development tools, and that I have a sufficiently large target userbase running it, it means squat.
I think you don't quite know what you're talking about. Have you ever seen the application "Google Earth"? Well, imagine creating an application with nice 3D animation like that is a NO BRAINER. That's what Avalon + the new developer tools + .NET on Windows Vista will let you do, easier than a fart.
Linux fan boys, enjoy your GCC.
There is no absence of innovation or new features. Avalon, the new graphics subsystem, and the developer tools that will allow you to develop for it, have leapfrogged everything I have ever seen. While Linux will still be using the 2D capabilities of a graphics card (sucks!) Microsoft Vista will be using all that tremendous 3D technology already present in our machines to render your desktop. 3rd party apps will be using it too. Yes, at first it feels like it will need ebtter equipment, but when you finally get that equipment and your pathetic X-Window or other Linux windowing system looks ridiculously passé when compared to Windows Vista, you'll realize Microsoft is no longer trying to catch up to OS X, which is already a much more polished OS than any Linux flavor.
Tell me you are using rechargeables, at least, right? Anyway, this mouse seems great - I also wish it was Bluetooth. I would get one. As it stands, I do not wish to have cords in my current environment, so it will have to wait.