Subj : Re: Exitilus 3.20
To   : Daemon
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 04:21 pm

  Re: Re: Exitilus 3.20
  By: Daemon to Deuce on Thu Aug 18 2005 17:40:00

 >   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-ar
 > and, before long, continue recieving support.  The release forced a fundamen
 > shift that left their competitors scratching their heads in the dust wonderi
 > how they had gotten so completely defeated without an actual battle.

Ok, I think I'm tracking now... I personally feel that XP is such a significant
step beyond 9x that it would count as a similarily large break, but that's
debatable (Mostly XP integrated all kinds of stuff that was previously a 3rd
party weird GUI... take CD burning as an example...)  However, I don't really
agree with the necessary replacement of business applications.

I personally expect Vista to be an evolutionary step rather than a
revolutionary one... that is to say, more stuff will Just Work.  I expect some
sort of photo retouching proggie, a basic video editor, DVD playback, DVD
authouring, etc.  Possibly another overhaul of the start menu... spyware
cleaning/blocking, possibly virus scanning... or at least a standard set of
virus scanning hooks.

I don't happen to agree than Windows 95 was better than any other "mainstream"
OS at the time.  OS/2 warp have a better UI inho than Win95 (Though Win95+ IE4
made up a lot of difference) the Windows UI is *still* annoyingly
inconsistent... someday, Microsoft may wake up and fix drag-and-drop to be more
predictable for example (Like every other OS from 1992 on)  The current
skinning and unique-ui-per-app has GOT to go for example.  As does the "Every
UI should be HTML/XML/DHTML/etc" theory.  Lowest Common Denominator is NOT a
good UI design theory, nor is trying to make a UI look like a physical object
(ie: a CD player)

I personally expect Vista to be what finally drives "real users" to something
else... be it Linux, OS/X, SunOS, whatever.  Windows is shaping up to become a
home OS.  The sheer insanity of having MS Messenger default to starting on boot
drives me up the wall every time I run into it... yeah, that should be in the
"Pro" version.

If it's not Vista, it'll be the next major desktop OS from Microsoft.

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