Vista Issues Laid Bare, The What & Why
March 21, 2007 by Jason
REGARDLESS OF WHAT Bill Gates might have claimed in interviews, a lot of the goodies in Vista have – I’ll be diplomatic – drawn inspiration from rival products, primarily Apple’s Mac OS X. The trouble is that Microsoft has prioritised the wrong bits, taken the wrong inspiration.
And the sad irony is that if it had made different choices, we’d have got a simpler, faster, safer Vista a lot sooner. So what sources and where has MS got its ideas from? And where should it have done so instead? You don’t have to look far. System-wide instant search and a query-driven, location-independent view of the filesystem are very useful things to have. Read More»
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