Ballmer @ Gartner
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next Windows = last Windows + something cool from the last Apple OS
+ something innovative and useless to most people but very useful to a few! ;-)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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+ something innovative and useless to most people but very useful to a few! ;-)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
The Blue Screens of Death with have a soft gradient background and rounded corners.
Steve Wellens
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Link What do you guys think the new Windows will look like aside from the fact of complete integration with all Microsoft products? P.S. CG, I wonder if Ballmer is taking the same "pills" as I am ;P
My guess: Replacing the Task Bar and Start Menu with Ribbons, and rewriting the entire OS in .NET. :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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My guess: Replacing the Task Bar and Start Menu with Ribbons, and rewriting the entire OS in .NET. :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! Code, follow, or get out of the way.
Steve Echols wrote:
and rewriting the entire OS in .NET
In some ways that'd actually be really cool - ever heard of Singularity? Some really good potential there. But backwards compatibility would be pretty much impossible so it is highly unlikely to happen. A managed OS is best suited for dedicated server environments, where the architecture, security, etc would be very useful and desktop app compatibility is not an issue.
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The Blue Screens of Death with have a soft gradient background and rounded corners.
Steve Wellens
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Steve Echols wrote:
and rewriting the entire OS in .NET
In some ways that'd actually be really cool - ever heard of Singularity? Some really good potential there. But backwards compatibility would be pretty much impossible so it is highly unlikely to happen. A managed OS is best suited for dedicated server environments, where the architecture, security, etc would be very useful and desktop app compatibility is not an issue.
Mostly joking, mostly, but yeah, totally spaced Singularity. :) What we need is a good old fashioned paradigm shift. Not sure how or what exactly, just feel like it's time for something big (not talking about the tubes here either). Regardless, I'm sure it'll require me to get a new machine. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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My guess: Replacing the Task Bar and Start Menu with Ribbons, and rewriting the entire OS in .NET. :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! Code, follow, or get out of the way.
I wonder whether Visual Studio 11 will come with ribbons too... ;P
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I wonder whether Visual Studio 11 will come with ribbons too... ;P
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That means that you still use mostly 2003 or something. Once you get used to it, you'll love it. Sure the ribbon is an ok choice for Office. That doesn't mean that it's suitable for anything. :)
I used to think.... Finally I realized it's no good.
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
That means that you still use mostly 2003 or something.
How the hell do you come to that conclusion? (which is wrong by the way, I use Office 2007 at home and at work.) :)
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MDL=>Moshu wrote:
That means that you still use mostly 2003 or something.
How the hell do you come to that conclusion? (which is wrong by the way, I use Office 2007 at home and at work.) :)
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I thought that since you didn't get use to it, the reason was that either at work or at home you still use the older version. Obviously, my judgment was wrong. :)
I used to think.... Finally I realized it's no good.
I just find all the jumping around the ribbons an inconvenience, and a waste of screen real estate. With the old fashioned toolbars i only really kept a couple visible, e.g. the formatting and standard, and everything else accessed from the drop down menus or accessed from right clicked context menus. I suppose its down to each individual at the end of the day..........hell, i still go into command prompts to do stuff, e.g. use XCopy for website upgrades etc.
MDL=>Moshu wrote:
my judgment was wrong.
Its okay, i won't hold it against you! :laugh:
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