Do apple really need microsoft ?
I mean if they can stop companies releasing skins that mimic the mac os X look, why not stop microsoft from stealing the transparency and animation, we've had transparent dragging in the Mac OS for so long now I can't remember when I didn't see it. There's no way they can legally release that, it's such a blatent rip off it's untrue.
I'm refering to the video
There also seems to be some features there with no use, why open 3 versions of the same window with varying amounts of transparency ? Is that supposed to be microsoft's "different enough to be our idea, not another apple rip off" attempt. It's sad, I know of only 1 windows user who isn't sticking windows 2000, XP's terrible as it is, if they rip off OS X's feel and add it to XP while maintaining it's awful interface, it's still not going to make window any more appealing to people who know they've got a choice.
It's the fact they're ripping off OS X bit by bit that's bugging me, plus, can you imagine how fast XP will render transparency etc... even on a mediocre PC, with or without they're "Quartz Extreme" rip off ?
Judging by how fast windows is compared to even Mac OS 9, XP will make OS X look slow as hell in comparison if jaguar isn't as fast as we expect it to be. Apple can't let this happen.
I'm not saying this so zeleots can shout me down, fact, viewing and manipulating a large folder of files is slow on a mac, on a PC it's almost instant, fact, that and the recoverable trashcan are NEVER going to be enough for me to choose a PC over a mac or even think of a PC as anything worth investing anything in.
