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Microsoft Gives Early Look at Windows 10 Featuring Windows 7 Elements, Broad Adaptability
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I guess someone at MS found out that Craig Federighi is nicknamed "Hair Force One" and they wanted to have one of those as well.
But, who knows
Federighi is "Hair Force 1"... The guy in the video is "Hair Forced too"
"Apple had agreed to license certain parts of its GUI to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0, but when Microsoft made changes in Windows 2.0 adding overlapping windows and other features found in the Macintosh GUI, Apple filed suit. Apple added additional claims to the suit when Microsoft released Windows 3.0.[5][6]"
Read this article for more. I stand by my statement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corp.
So 14 years is "forever" to you, so you must be 14 years old? Amiright?
It's OS X, with a space. Hey, did you know that it is pronounced "oh-ess-ten", or have you been calling it "oh-ess-ex"?
The OS X interface, in terms of its consistent and predictable layout, with the menubar at the top of the screen, an Apple menu accessible in all apps, the Dock along the bottom, the Spotlight menu in the upper-right... it's this design that makes the Mac's interface outstanding. How can you improve on perfection? Yosemite is a perfect example of how Apple is trying to improve OS X and actually taking several steps backwards in the process. Yosemite's flat, lesser-cohesive interface definitely needs some refinements going forward. It's not as good as Mavericks and earlier.
Undoubtedly already pondered to death earlier but wt happened to the ninth iteration? Windows was, is and likely will always be PATHETIC. I've used it on and off and hope never will have to as it was (and appears to be still is) horrible to use!
Windows 10 looks to me to be going further down the split personality path... it is a platypus of an OS. The Live tiles on the Start menu seem "tacked on" rather than as an element of a cohesive UI design. (it almost seems like a, "we're going to force you to see live tiles one way or another" attitude)
Having the Modern/Metro UI apps be window-able with a title bar and buttons, was a long convoluted way to simply change the theme... because in essence windowed apps in Win10 are no different than a themed Windows 7.
I was never a Windows 8 hater, but I did see it as too ambitious, too soon. This seems like too little, too late.
Seems like 3rd party Start menus will still be necessary to avoid having the live tile wart.
Having the Modern/Metro UI apps be window-able with a title bar and buttons, was a long convoluted way to simply change the theme... because in essence windowed apps in Win10 are no different than a themed Windows 7.
I was never a Windows 8 hater, but I did see it as too ambitious, too soon. This seems like too little, too late.
Seems like 3rd party Start menus will still be necessary to avoid having the live tile wart.
Yes, and IRIX / Indigo Magic had this at least a decade before that (1993?), so welcome OS X users, to the previous century. And I doubt SGI was first (if I recall correctly they had to license it from a different company, HP maybe?)
you forgot to insert the gregarious "they copied from Apple" line...mandiatory to dig at PeeCee users
You've gotta be kidding...right?
This is really the death of Windows as a consumer OS, we won.
That's so untrue, its laughable.
Xerox tried to sue apple while Apple was trying to sue MS..
OSX hasn't changed forever, its still stuck in the XP like days and apple seem unwilling to try and move forward with a new GUI direction.
You don't change something that works. We aren't using steering wheels on bicycles are we? Handle bars have worked since the bike was invented and it works well.
I think Apple patented 10 at the same time they did the rectangle with rounded corners.
Difference is that xerox gave apple permission to do it. Stupid move in hindsight but at the time they had no idea how big the notion of a gui would be. No one expected computers to become commonplace in every home
Windows 10? More like Window s X
This interface seems a bit familiar.
But thank god they brought back the start menu. Windows 8 was horrendous.
And what's the deal with skipping nine?
This interface seems a bit familiar.
But thank god they brought back the start menu. Windows 8 was horrendous.
And what's the deal with skipping nine?
Being a Mac user since 1994, who switched to Windows 8, let me express how much I care that the "start menu" is back:
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no, nothing. As a Mac user I laughed at the pathetic almost retarded UI element that was/is the start menu in Windows. Let it die already, it was born deformed.
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no, nothing. As a Mac user I laughed at the pathetic almost retarded UI element that was/is the start menu in Windows. Let it die already, it was born deformed.