Well, I like Gmail a lot. I'd just like to see them try I guess. Picasa was quite nice as well. There's potential there. Google Maps is quite thorough as well. There's potential......
Damnit!! Well, there goes my hopes for a nice Google OS. Frankly, nobody knows what their strategy is. At the moment it seems to be
1. release as much beta software as possible
2. software will perpetually be beta
3. goto and play no. 1
A Google OS would be incredibly unsuccessful coming from any other company than Google, but Google has such immense capital that they could pay people to use it.
Well Google Office sure is coming. Google Spreadsheets anyone? I'm...intrigued. Hey if it makes MS put more effort in to Office everyone wins.
Well, hopefully Office will lose and Google Office will win. (I guess I'm assuming Google Office will be good, if it ever comes out)... Heh.
Office as it is, is total BLOATWARE. The "features" they have added in the past few years is nonsense.
If Google Office was on the horizon, MS's response of "putting more effort" into Office is to make Office (A)even more bloated (B)even more full of rubbish annoying wizard-crap (C)cosmetic changes (some sort of "prettying up" that may or may not be useful from a UI point of view.
Do you think it is that huge? Does that mean Mac OS X is at least 5 years ahead regarding Vista?
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
I just hope that you can choose not to install them from the very beginning!
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
Heh. The thing is, they'll copy OS X, and make it worse, and full of wizard-rubbish and bloatware iApps wannabees. The "security" features are going to be even more hilarious, with a whole layer of even more bloated code that'll be patched and patched and patched and patched...
I tried beta 2 on my iMac and after a few tricks, I've gotten it working..and it runs reasonably well...
the nannyware is incredibly annoying...start a program on a cd or open any settings and it asks a few times to make sure you are sure you want to do something...
they should have a setting when you first boot after install to set the nanny level to either a n00b level or a l33t level...
and people complain about Apple's UI being inconsistent...wow Vista will mortify them
The real problem with those file deletion screenshots is the default button selection is an affirmative action. A dialog that asks if you're sure should always default to the negative.
But UIs have been so bastardized today, I suppose it doesn't really matter. Browser tabs, 2-dimensional pulldown menu precision, Apple-W quitting applications... I abhor all that, yet it exists in my favorite operating system.
I love Apple-W quitting applications. Finally! When I first started using the Mac I was wondering why the HELL all these apps were still running with no windows. I say bring on more Apple-W quitting applications if there are no more active windows for that app.
Comments
Originally posted by sunilraman
Google should bloody come out with guns blazing and make a Unix-based OS already...!!!
Why? Google couldn't design a good interface if their lives depended on it.
All they do is stick a Search field everywhere, as if that were a user's primary concern.
1. release as much beta software as possible
2. software will perpetually be beta
3. goto and play no. 1
Originally posted by sunilraman
Damnit!!
1. release as much beta software as possible
2. software will perpetually be beta
3. goto and play no. 1
A Google OS would be incredibly unsuccessful coming from any other company than Google, but Google has such immense capital that they could pay people to use it.
Originally posted by sunilraman
Damnit!!
Goobuntu.
Wiki Goobuntu.
Hi, Sunil.
--B
Goobuntu.
Wiki Goobuntu.
Hi, Sunil.
--B
Hi !
w000000000000000000000t !!!!!!111!!!!!!!
Some buzz on Digg (not worth much but whatever...
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Goobuntu_is_coming_
Well Google Office sure is coming. Google Spreadsheets anyone? I'm...intrigued. Hey if it makes MS put more effort in to Office everyone wins.
Well, hopefully Office will lose and Google Office will win. (I guess I'm assuming Google Office will be good, if it ever comes out)... Heh.
Office as it is, is total BLOATWARE. The "features" they have added in the past few years is nonsense.
If Google Office was on the horizon, MS's response of "putting more effort" into Office is to make Office (A)even more bloated (B)even more full of rubbish annoying wizard-crap (C)cosmetic changes (some sort of "prettying up" that may or may not be useful from a UI point of view.
Originally posted by Chucker
Why? Google couldn't design a good interface if their lives depended on it.
All they do is stick a Search field everywhere, as if that were a user's primary concern.
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Do you think it is that huge? Does that mean Mac OS X is at least 5 years ahead regarding Vista?
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
Originally posted by Chucker
All they [Google] do is stick a Search field everywhere, as if that were a user's primary concern.
And true to form, MS is doing the same thing with Vista. What a joke.
Originally posted by jamezog
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
I just hope that you can choose not to install them from the very beginning!
Perhaps not 5 years ahead of Vista, but I can't help but laugh at the "revolutionary" changes that MS is introducing with Vista that have been available on OSX for years. "Gadgets?" "Aero Interface?" Sounds a whole lot like "Widgets" and "Aqua Interface" to me. Vista is just screaming "OS X wannabe."
Heh. The thing is, they'll copy OS X, and make it worse, and full of wizard-rubbish and bloatware iApps wannabees. The "security" features are going to be even more hilarious, with a whole layer of even more bloated code that'll be patched and patched and patched and patched...
the nannyware is incredibly annoying...start a program on a cd or open any settings and it asks a few times to make sure you are sure you want to do something...
they should have a setting when you first boot after install to set the nanny level to either a n00b level or a l33t level...
and people complain about Apple's UI being inconsistent...wow Vista will mortify them
Originally posted by cj171
they should have a setting when you first boot after install to set the nanny level to either a n00b level or a l33t level...
Oh my god man you've got me crying with laughter!
But UIs have been so bastardized today, I suppose it doesn't really matter. Browser tabs, 2-dimensional pulldown menu precision, Apple-W quitting applications... I abhor all that, yet it exists in my favorite operating system.
...Apple-W quitting applications...
I love Apple-W quitting applications. Finally! When I first started using the Mac I was wondering why the HELL all these apps were still running with no windows. I say bring on more Apple-W quitting applications if there are no more active windows for that app.