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| Time: 06:07 EST/11:07 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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After years of relative quiet, both Microsoft and Apple are frenetically working on major new upgrades to the base software that run the personal computers of tens of millions of business and consumer users. Microsoft is using the code name Longhorn to refer to its next upgrade to the Windows operating system. Apple, keeping the theme of naming its operating system software after big and fast cats, calls its next release Tiger. We'll see Tiger in stores this year -- perhaps within a few weeks. Longhorn, as is typical of Microsoft, has been delayed a couple of times and is now not expected until mid-2006. Longhorn will be the first major Microsoft upgrade since Windows XP hit computer hard drives in 2001. That's light-years in the world of personal computers, and much has changed in that time: Wireless Bluetooth connections for printers and keyboards are now common, floppy drives have disappeared, Wi-Fi is now widespread and dozens of new security challenges and issues like spyware and Trojans have surfaced. | ||
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| #26 By 3339 (64.160.58.150) at 4/1/2005 5:15:21 PM |
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thanks, quux.
You do see my point though: if your OS is as confusing as FCK you need Fisher-Price task panes that treat you like a three year old... and that still won't help you with 80% of the stuff that makes you scratch your head. This post was edited by sodajerk on Friday, April 01, 2005 at 17:16. |
| #27 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 4/1/2005 9:42:41 PM |
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#40, Very good point, and I assert that increasingly, the same discoverable properties are finding their way across all of Microsoft's products and are certainly being reflected in the tools available. I agree with you, it is a wonder that IDE's like Mono, which is evolving almost daily, are not more readily embraced. When it, or another IDE as capable becomes favored, a lot of progress will be made in SW for the *nix.
For others, and in direct response to the elements that seem to drive more experienced users nuts, there are two sides to the solution/answer - one is that new users or less experienced users do need more assistance and often look for the OS and SW to communicate what it is doing - ref the observation about print notifications, etc... On the other side of this are great Group Policy Object [GPO] tools and templates one can use to easily and fully control even the most subtle Windows and related SW elements - turning any and all such notifications off [if one should like]. Ironically, this very site has some great stories posted today about exactly how one would use and manage these - perhaps more so, is that perhaps the most useful material is so rarely spoken to, while the "contest threads" get all the attention. That's okay, but one should explore just how easy it is to fully manage one or tens of thousands of Windows systems and the software installed on them. PLease consider, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ef3a35c0-19b9-4acc-b5be-9b7dab13108e&DisplayLang=en and don't forget the ADM files/templates to help you get started. You may of course apply these to any local machine if you like, but for Admins they are a dream and can save you and your users a ton of time and money. Finally, systems that work equally well for single users and organizations of all sizes says quite a lot about how complete and well integrated Microsoft software is. It is a platform. Mono for example is an IDE - not bad, just less mature in the context of the word platform. It will evolve, but the question remains, if it will evolve in isolation. This is the paradox for OSS and even MAC - perhaps the super-distros will continue to merge and provide the basis for this. Because alternatives have not is why Microsoft continues to dominate and why the company rose to such a position. Common tools would go a very long way - provided adoption was broad and implementation consistent. Funny, the Euro and the EEA come to mind [the merger of the former EFTA and EG]. |
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