Reactions to Vista

[Lt Major Burns]

what are your reactions to Vista now we can see something a little more concrete, a little bit more like a finished OS. this will dominate the world for the next five years, so: thoughts, please!

my reactions are: it does look powerful, a lot more like we want an OS to be. yes it borrows a lot from MacOS, but seeing as this is the future we use, it was inevitable. my hope is that the extra time it's taken to build Vista/longhorn may mean that the things like index search and smart/virtual folders will be better integrated and more logical than the (rushed, IMO) apple counterparts.

[RGrphc2]

M$ Can't seem to do anything original, IE 7 looks like firefox with a theme to it, the transparent windows have been around for a while for Windows XP, and now spotlight...jeez

~wanting to leave the world of MS and get a mac desktop to replace my dell~

[Decado]

where do you find pictures of it?

[fjdouse]

mmh..

Fascinating question, not sure what kind of answer you want from Mac fans but....

To me it looks like a lump of ****, a load of stolen ideas from Sun's JDS, Sun's Looking Glass, Mac OS X, KDE and cobbled together with the same old lack of innovation which plague all of Microsoft's Windows operating systems.

Uninspiring, uninteresting, bland, dull, grey, bloated and typically Microsoft. That's what I honestly and truly, truly think. I thank God that I don't have to rely on it.

I'll leave it to the secretaries and game kiddies that HAVE to use it to decide how good it is or whether it has any merits, but a lump of **** is what I will gladly and un-apologetically pre-judge it to be.

[sirstaunch]

Originally Posted by Decado

where do you find pictures of it?

http://news.com.com/2300-1016_3-5805994-3.html

Looks like a hack has been put through the system appearance already

[Mikuro]

Where is this concrete info to which you allude? Any links?

Originally Posted by sirstaunch

http://news.com.com/2300-1016_3-5805994-3.html

The first picture on that site looms interesting. Are those dynamic folder icons? That's been talked about for years (and I listed it in the "What would you like to see in Leopard" thread). Dynamic folder icons that actually represent the folder's contents would be great. But I can't tell if that's what I'm looking at or if it's just a few pre-made icons like we've had since...well, always.

Aside from that, I see nothing interesting. It looks like MS is going to pile on even more needless glitz than Apple. *shrug* Apple tried the whole "translucent title bar" thing before; they rightly decided it was retarded after Jaguar.


The important thing to keep in mind is that Longhorn isn't really comparable to Tiger. People have been comparing it to every version of OS X since Jaguar. By the time it comes out, we'll be at least up to Leopard. That gives Apple plenty of time to refine Spotlight and Smart Folders. And call me crazy, but I really doubt MS will pull off a better implementation the first time around. That's just not the way they do things, historically.

[MrNivit1]

Originally Posted by Mikuro

The first picture on that site looms interesting. Are those dynamic folder icons? That's been talked about for years (and I listed it in the "What would you like to see in Leopard" thread). Dynamic folder icons that actually represent the folder's contents would be great. But I can't tell if that's what I'm looking at or if it's just a few pre-made icons like we've had since...well, always.

Dosen't look like dynamic folders, just the stock folder icons for the folders that would be the equivalent of what's in the users folder in OSX.

[RGrphc2]

The Pictures and Video folder in Windows Vista contains new information about a picture, including the type of camera used and a user-assigned rating.

Uhm, doesn't iPhoto and iMovie do that already??? Correct me if i'm wrong about the iMovie doing that, i have NEVER imported movies onto my laptop, mainly because i have no movies, because i don't have a camcorder...yet