[mad=dog]

But! Why on earth not focus on what windows LACKS and people WANT? I am talking multiple desktops and a pager here. I am talking a liberal graphical environment where you can choose which layout manager to use (KDE, gnome, XFCE or for the eye-candy lovin' hollywood OS Enlightenment). I am talking flexibility.
Thoran you will have to excuse my ambiguous statement. What I intended to say was "microsoft has been setting the pace for nearly 2 decades. seems like they want to do that one last time."
Vista looks like a "same sh*t, new wrapping" solution and that is not the proper way to tackle a quite flexible and usable alternative. There is very little creative thinking in Vista here. It's almost like a bunch of hardware programmers gone haywire and completely out of control. Windows NEEDS to be retyped from the bottom up. I agree with that sentiment. The old system is simply too poor (took them forever to figure out how to change the layout for XP for instance). I just don't think this is a problem-solving solution. And I detest that.
As for DX10, gaming and all that. Bah. I game too little to carry a voice in that context. However if I produced games I'd start to look at live bootable CD solutions with an option to grab a harddisc partition for permanent installation. That way you don't have (much of) a bothersome OS underneath. Wether these solutions should be in-house, Linux or MS based is not an issue. The first step in solving a problem is to identify the orign.

[ 09-14-2005, 12:40 PM: Message edited by: mad=dog ]