So, Dell decided that Vista suxx and they really wanted badly to have OSX on their machines. But, of course, Apple told then to go make an OS for themselves.
And now, this is what Dell has come up with:
Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops:
Sweet, uh?
That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.
"looking better" ? OMG!
Well, what can I say? Here's what the Bill said:
We're hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I'm very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficientArs technica: Gates: Windows 7 will "take less memory, be more efficient":
So, yeah, the next Windows will, like, totally rock, will never crash and will save baby seals and reduce global warming (that latest one if probably true: a crashed PC that won't boot will not use power nor release heat).
Don't you love the way that each "next" version of Windows is gonna be the be-all end-all? But wasn't the previous one supposed to be that way too?
In a previous post, I pointed to an interesting chronicle written by a long-time Windows developer who decided to switch over to doing Mac apps because he was fed up with the ugly Win platform.
In the second part of his story, he focuses on the story of the .net trainwreck environment.
From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X - part II:
So where does that leave me? I want to write nice applications. I want to be able to concentrate on my own code rather than fighting the API the whole time. I want my applications to fit in with the OS and work in a way that's consistent with first-party applications and even other third-party programs. I want this because I think it leads to better software; it means I can spend my time creating innovative and useful software that people enjoy using. I really want to do this, but you know what? On Windows it's just too damn hard.
Microsoft has had good opportunities to do something about this, but they have been systematically squandered through a combination of ineptitude, mismanagement, and slavish adherence to backwards compatibility. The disillusionment I feel is incredible. I enjoy writing programs, but I don't enjoy writing for Windows. And while once it made sense to stick with Windows, it just doesn't any more. There's now an attractive alternative: Mac OS X.
So, basically it all comes down to two things: 1) offer developers clean and well-designed APIs and 2) be a role-model and eat your own API dog food.
This picture is just GREAT:
I still hope for them he used PowerPoint and not Apple's Keynote...
