I'm assuming you mean the Vista 'review?' Your link goes to the latest video apparently, currently something about Chinese migrants in China.
Yeah, that was pretty lame...if he didn't want to review the software he should have just said that. But typical Mac Zealotry, sit there looking smug about the inferiority of anything not made by Apple. Meh. It wasn't even a good rant or anything.
No kidding - he was just rehashing things that have been obvious for months now. ;) Completely irrelevant, but there will still be the mouthbreathers thinking this is all new stuff. (I still run into people who simply do *NOT* believe that *ANY* OS out there has no viruses. They're just so immersed in Windows = computer, that anything else is just inconceivable. Ah well, not my problem.)
Wacky about the link - I think they constantly shuffle the links around. It took me four tries to get it to stabilize on the correct video in the first place. :P
Eh, Pogue pulls out a 'humor' piece once in a while, and I slapped this in that column. He needs to talk to Dave Barry or someone good at it though, because it never works out for him.
That video puts me in a very weird place. Not that I am not normally in a very weird place.
That was intended to be humor, right? Would that it had been funny. I can see how it would totally get the intended reaction from both ends of the zealotry extreme, but who else cares?
As far as "copying" goes, how the hell is that news? Neither Apple nor Microsoft has had a leg to stand on in the infringement space since the eighties. Anybody remember the Xerox Alto? No, of course nobody remembers it, but Xerox sued _Apple_ for copyright infringement in the GUI space a good decade or more before Apple sued Microsoft for the same thing.
I can say with authority that Vista Desktop Search is not a copy of anything in OS X--I had to listen to Ian King blather on about Search in _1995_. The Vista incarnation is purty-near exactly what he was describing back then. The fact that it took eleven years (and more) to bring the vision to the customer is an indictment of Microsoft's efficiency, not of their penchant for plagiarism. (I should note that Ian King is a great guy and a fine bloke to raise a glass with--he just has a tendency to drive a topic into the ground, a flaw I imagine you have noticed in other people 'round here as well.)
Now that Vista is "out", I feel like I can mention my own opinion--Vista is significantly better at almost everything than XP, but that "almost" incorporates some pretty important caveats: - Resource usage: Vista is a glutton. Don't even try running Vista in less than a gig of memory, and I won't be putting it on a machine with less than two, myself. - Application Compatibility: Make sure your most important apps will run on Vista. Get that information directly from the application vendor. In writing, so they have to help you out when they don't. Because many will not, and many of Microsoft's Vista-certification tests are, let us say lacking. - Hardware compatibility: Vista is way different under-the-covers than XP. Most (all?) device drivers will need to be rewritten significantly. Most (definitely _not_ all) device drivers have been so rewritten--Vista supports all kinds of things out of the box that you could never get working really right with XP. But that doesn't matter to you when one of _your_ devices is one of the few that doesn't have a Vista driver yet.
My bottom line is that I won't be buying Vista for any of my current hardware, and all the existing hardware I support among the family will remain XP. But I will be most pleased to have Vista arrive on all the new hardware I'm going to be buying over the next year or so. (And I'll keep a Virtual PC or two around to run Vista.32 and XPSP2 for those games and apps that Vista just can't handle.)
Yup, that's kind of how I felt about it - on the one hand, I thought it was somewhat humorous, but not in a very well done way, on another hand, I was kind of shocked it was a 'serious' journalist trying to pull it off. It'd be like Dan Rather doing a comedic version of the election results.
Oh wait. He did that. Oops.
ANYwho, an oddity, but nothing new content-wise, certainly.
Ewgh. David Pogue trying to be funny again. I wish he’d stop that—it gives me nightmares for a week, particularly on video.
The “widgets/gadgets” thing in particular annoyed me. I can’t speak for where Vista’s might have come from, but Apple’s Dashboard was heavily borrowed from Konfabulator, which called its programs “widgets.” Apple”s Dashboard developer documentation refers to them as “gadgets.” But they’re all just an evolution of the desk accessories that earlier windowing operating systems had, including the Xerox PARC project that Jobs and company copied so much of for the first Macintosh operating system.
This sort of evolution is why the creative commons is so important, and why patenting ideas is so problematic.
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Date: 2006-12-17 08:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-17 11:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, that was pretty lame...if he didn't want to review the software he should have just said that. But typical Mac Zealotry, sit there looking smug about the inferiority of anything not made by Apple. Meh. It wasn't even a good rant or anything.
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Date: 2006-12-17 11:05 pm (UTC)Wacky about the link - I think they constantly shuffle the links around. It took me four tries to get it to stabilize on the correct video in the first place. :P
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Date: 2006-12-17 11:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-18 12:42 am (UTC)That was intended to be humor, right? Would that it had been funny. I can see how it would totally get the intended reaction from both ends of the zealotry extreme, but who else cares?
As far as "copying" goes, how the hell is that news? Neither Apple nor Microsoft has had a leg to stand on in the infringement space since the eighties. Anybody remember the Xerox Alto? No, of course nobody remembers it, but Xerox sued _Apple_ for copyright infringement in the GUI space a good decade or more before Apple sued Microsoft for the same thing.
I can say with authority that Vista Desktop Search is not a copy of anything in OS X--I had to listen to Ian King blather on about Search in _1995_. The Vista incarnation is purty-near exactly what he was describing back then. The fact that it took eleven years (and more) to bring the vision to the customer is an indictment of Microsoft's efficiency, not of their penchant for plagiarism. (I should note that Ian King is a great guy and a fine bloke to raise a glass with--he just has a tendency to drive a topic into the ground, a flaw I imagine you have noticed in other people 'round here as well.)
Now that Vista is "out", I feel like I can mention my own opinion--Vista is significantly better at almost everything than XP, but that "almost" incorporates some pretty important caveats:
- Resource usage: Vista is a glutton. Don't even try running Vista in less than a gig of memory, and I won't be putting it on a machine with less than two, myself.
- Application Compatibility: Make sure your most important apps will run on Vista. Get that information directly from the application vendor. In writing, so they have to help you out when they don't. Because many will not, and many of Microsoft's Vista-certification tests are, let us say lacking.
- Hardware compatibility: Vista is way different under-the-covers than XP. Most (all?) device drivers will need to be rewritten significantly. Most (definitely _not_ all) device drivers have been so rewritten--Vista supports all kinds of things out of the box that you could never get working really right with XP. But that doesn't matter to you when one of _your_ devices is one of the few that doesn't have a Vista driver yet.
My bottom line is that I won't be buying Vista for any of my current hardware, and all the existing hardware I support among the family will remain XP. But I will be most pleased to have Vista arrive on all the new hardware I'm going to be buying over the next year or so. (And I'll keep a Virtual PC or two around to run Vista.32 and XPSP2 for those games and apps that Vista just can't handle.)
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Date: 2006-12-18 12:51 am (UTC)Oh wait. He did that. Oops.
ANYwho, an oddity, but nothing new content-wise, certainly.
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Date: 2006-12-18 03:38 pm (UTC)Ewgh. David Pogue trying to be funny again. I wish he’d stop that—it gives me nightmares for a week, particularly on video.
The “widgets/gadgets” thing in particular annoyed me. I can’t speak for where Vista’s might have come from, but Apple’s Dashboard was heavily borrowed from Konfabulator, which called its programs “widgets.” Apple”s Dashboard developer documentation refers to them as “gadgets.” But they’re all just an evolution of the desk accessories that earlier windowing operating systems had, including the Xerox PARC project that Jobs and company copied so much of for the first Macintosh operating system.
This sort of evolution is why the creative commons is so important, and why patenting ideas is so problematic.