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"[Until early September,] Microsoft wasn't sure whether it would just demo Aero or supply it to PDC attendees," one source told me recently. But the decision to only demonstrate Aero was made because of the long delay between the PDC and Longhorn's final release, which is set for late 2005. If the company released all of its UI work now, its OS competitors--such as Apple Computer and various companies and organizations in the Linux camp, all of which have fewer customers and faster release cycles than Microsoft--would be able to clone its work before Longhorn releases. This problem has dogged Microsoft in the past, the most recent example being Apple's Expose technology, which will ship in Mac OS X 10.3 late this year; Microsoft has been demonstrating Expose-like technology for years now, but the work won't show up in Windows until the Longhorn release at the earliest."
To be honest about it, i never heard about MS making an Expose like app on longhorn builds or anything about it. Unless he means the little "show desktop" icon that is even on XP.
Nevertheless, I love apple expose! But the problems that expose fixes for GUI desktop is less problematic on XP for its task-bar system.
Update: I spoke with some longhorn zealots, indeed longhorn has an expose type application, and there is even one ported for XP made by an independent author.
"[Until early September,] Microsoft wasn't sure whether it would just demo Aero or supply it to PDC attendees," one source told me recently. But the decision to only demonstrate Aero was made because of the long delay between the PDC and Longhorn's final release, which is set for late 2005. If the company released all of its UI work now, its OS competitors--such as Apple Computer and various companies and organizations in the Linux camp, all of which have fewer customers and faster release cycles than Microsoft--would be able to clone its work before Longhorn releases. This problem has dogged Microsoft in the past, the most recent example being Apple's Expose technology, which will ship in Mac OS X 10.3 late this year; Microsoft has been demonstrating Expose-like technology for years now, but the work won't show up in Windows until the Longhorn release at the earliest."
To be honest about it, i never heard about MS making an Expose like app on longhorn builds or anything about it. Unless he means the little "show desktop" icon that is even on XP.
Nevertheless, I love apple expose! But the problems that expose fixes for GUI desktop is less problematic on XP for its task-bar system.Update: I spoke with some longhorn zealots, indeed longhorn has an expose type application, and there is even one ported for XP made by an independent author.
