presbp
February 9th, 2007, 03:24 PM
I got out of the kiosk screen that was on it and was messing around the desktop
The Windows Search, even if it looks pretty familiar to Mac OS X is a better search system than XP. Just hit the Windows key and search. Pretty useful.
The desktops gadgets, also look pretty familiar to an OS X feature called widgets are also useful. The thing I wonder though is how can people say that one operating system copied another.. people have to get ideas from somewhere.. Ubuntu has Desktop applets, Vista has gadgets, OS X has widgets but they are all essentially the same thing.
Other minor things like the keystroke and search.. it is just an efficient feature. Operating systems are getting closer and closer to looking and acting alike apart from the stuff under the hood so you can't say they copied our search feature or our 3D chess game and stuff like that.
Now stopping my rant, the search and the gadgets were cool but the only other I tried is opening Internet Explorer. I opened it and it apparently did not have the internet hooked up in the store so I told it to stop. Then told it to close. Then told it to close. Then told it to close. Then hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. Then killed IE process. Then got an error encountered screen.
Not a very good indication to me if the first time I try Vista it locks up.
The Windows Search, even if it looks pretty familiar to Mac OS X is a better search system than XP. Just hit the Windows key and search. Pretty useful.
The desktops gadgets, also look pretty familiar to an OS X feature called widgets are also useful. The thing I wonder though is how can people say that one operating system copied another.. people have to get ideas from somewhere.. Ubuntu has Desktop applets, Vista has gadgets, OS X has widgets but they are all essentially the same thing.
Other minor things like the keystroke and search.. it is just an efficient feature. Operating systems are getting closer and closer to looking and acting alike apart from the stuff under the hood so you can't say they copied our search feature or our 3D chess game and stuff like that.
Now stopping my rant, the search and the gadgets were cool but the only other I tried is opening Internet Explorer. I opened it and it apparently did not have the internet hooked up in the store so I told it to stop. Then told it to close. Then told it to close. Then told it to close. Then hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. Then killed IE process. Then got an error encountered screen.
Not a very good indication to me if the first time I try Vista it locks up.