Subj : Re: Exitilus 3.20
To   : Deuce
From : Daemon
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 05:40 pm

  Re: Re: Exitilus 3.20
  By: Deuce to Daemon on Thu Aug 18 2005 03:21 pm

 > Ok, I don't understand at all... are you saying that updating and overhaulin
 > UI ideas is a bad thing?  Or that updating all programs to use a new UI
 > standard is bad?

  *scratches head*  Could swear I'm being clearer than this, but okay.  Maybe
not.

  I'm just saying I wonder if the new long-awaited version is so
"revolutionized" as to be intended to create a mass-replacement of general
computing standards world-wide, which I believe Win95 was intended to do. 
Microsoft's sure sitting on it for an awful long time, while Linux alone is
having all kinds of fun eating into the existing market as they do so and, now,
their internet software is taking a moderate beating by Mozilla et al.

  Sure, progress is great.  And I have no problem with it.  Hell, I even accept
that backwards compatibility isn't always possible or even desirable (in fact,
there's a certain natural sense to extinction, even in regards to technology).

  But I believe Win95 was leaps and bounds beyond 3.1/3.11 for the express
purpose of side-stepping the competition back then entirely rather than
continue to compete within the existing paradigm, and I'm actually hoping to
see the same thing happen THIS time because for all the bells and whistles of
Win2k or XP etc., they're still really fundamentally the same tired old GUI
that crawled out of 16-bit standards a decade ago.

  When Win95 came out, it became necessary to replace or upgrade pretty much
any business application a company used if it wanted to stay state-of-the-art
and, before long, continue recieving support.  The release forced a fundamental
shift that left their competitors scratching their heads in the dust wondering
how they had gotten so completely defeated without an actual battle.

  I wonder how much power to revolutionize Microsoft, in fact, still has in
today's computer world-view, and if the new OS will be an attempt to force
another fundamental shift.  *shrug*

  Beyond that, I offer no judgement of it at all.


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