Originally posted by MorganX
What part of it looks like an Aqua clone to you?
My Aqua clone remark was cheap, as cheap as a hi-res screenshot of a PC game- circa 1996.
some others have touched on what I was getting at.
The screenshots I've seen of Longhorn are all seemingly trying to sell the notion that it is new and improved. Just like Apple did early on with Aqua. Showing screenshots and window tricks doesn't even come close to demonstrating user experience. With GUIs, that is all tactile, hence an understanding of it depends upon using it yourself.
And, when it comes down to knowing your machines performance using that OS, well, you can guess that the machine you have when you see your first demo won't run the final version. But, lookit-the-pretty-picture approach to getting people to understanding that the OS they buy is different is something I thought would only happen once in a while.
For instance, Win95 was a huge shift in terms of user interface for MS' system. Since then the changes have been mostly under the hood. To go the route of the paint job and action stripes with a docked set of widgets (a la Active Desktop plus Dock plus Confabulator) just makes it seem less worthwhile.
But, I've used computers for over 20 years and I guess I need to sit down at one and use it for a while vs. jumping for joy at a screenshot or movie clip. Even Job's demos don't mean much to me anymore.
(You know this is really off topic but I am just going to blurt this out. I notice a lot of you are using OSX. I got to thinking about how showing something cool doesn't equate to using something cool.
So, it just leads me to think that allowing OS 9 users to actually use a very-stripped down version of OSX just might increase sales.
I don't mean the whole optimized ball of waX,but, I don't just mean a Theme either. OS9 users (&earlier) should have the option to experience X. I don't know how this would work but I know that many many features would not be in the demo in this demo( PDF based Quartz for example). But the under the hood UI stuff (revamped Finder, a non-movable Dock). Charge $20-$50 bucks for it or something. If Apple lived up to its early myths, it would give those uncoverted a reason to be tempted, a taste, a bite....
If Apple really wanted to increase sales, Just Let Them Use It.)
but mine is worse. i registered a LONG time ago. 
