It is unfortunate that OSX or UNIX cannot fully replace Windows, unless more software developers and to a much larger extent game developers start supporting multiple binaries. Hopefully, some future visual style mod has the ability to tone down the bad taste and polish the interface. The Aero style feels childish Pokemon/Picachu-esque, more like something the oompaloompas would use in Tim Burton’s movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. It is depressing to review the newest evolution of the ever bloating Windows operating system as the latest disappointment from Microsoft. I tried the lastest build of Win7, and I am not impressed with the general responsiveness nor with the continuation of the Vista GUI style. Wow – can’t Apple come up with any original ideas, instead of just shamelessly stealing from Microsoft? – running on x86 hardware, instead of underpowered/overpriced PPC junk – an OS that could act as a capable server – basic, fundamental features of a modern OS (like real memory management, proper multitasking, the ability to run for more than an hour without crashing, etc) A few examples of areas where Apple copied Microsoft: If you were consistent enough to apply the same standard to Apple, it looks like they’re the ones who have been dong most of the photocopying over the last ten years. So if the two companies do something similar, and Apple does it first, then you just blindly assume that Microsoft was “photocopying” Apple? So in the true tired old style Microsoft starts the PR photocopiers up to claim miraculous same sounding claims for Vista SP3 (Windows 7). Although even that took them 3 years – or 6, if you count how long it took before there was an OS X release that was anything more than a glorified $120 beta. Apple didn’t even write OS X to begin with – they just bought NeXT and added a bunch of eyecandy fluff to it. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Apple is about to release a completely rewritten
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