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Vista, Mac OS X Clone?
Refalm:
They have copied the metallic look, the effects, that search thingy, etc.
How Microsoft designs seems completely random. They must have hired some people from Theme-XP.org.
inane:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---I still don't understand all this 'vista copied off mac' stuff.
The only thing I've seen is the lighting/highlighting.
OMG They copied how lighting looks in the real world off really shiny surfaces shock horror.
MS have to make Vista look more advanced so they have to add more curves and shiny stuff. I wouldn't think there are many ways you can do that and look nice/clean.
In this day and age there are so many ideas coming out all the time that the ideas come out before the technology is available. So everything is a copy. No matter what MS did there would be a windowsblinds theme that had similarities with the vista theme.
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It removes it's head from it's ass... NOW!
Look dude we're BARELY talking about gloss effects and gifs or shiny bullshit. We're talking about general design ideas and how Windows has NEVER innovated. WIDGETS?!? on the desktop?!? An application bar zooming in and out? a search bar on the top left of the fle manager fro christs sake. Ok buddy just go back to PCmagonline NOW...
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: inane --- THEY'RE ALL 16 BIT OR LOWER YOU TWATS. Ever try to run a DOS game on XP?
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Firstly you can't run anything lower than 16-bit code on an x86 platform (i.e 8-bit stuff) without an emulator.
Secondly, not all DOS software is 16-bit, games released after 1993 or so were mostly 32-bit like DOOM Duke Nukem 3D and Quake, they used a DOS extender which was essentially an add-on to the allow DOS to run 32-bit protected mode code.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: inane ---It removes it's head from it's ass... NOW!
Look dude we're BARELY talking about gloss effects and gifs or shiny bullshit. We're talking about general design ideas and how Windows has NEVER innovated. WIDGETS?!? on the desktop?!? An application bar zooming in and out? a search bar on the top left of the fle manager fro christs sake. Ok buddy just go back to PCmagonline NOW...
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Don't be a dick.
Pathos had a difference of opinion. You had several counterpoints which you could have said without being a jerk.
H_TeXMeX_H:
What I don't understand is why people buy into flashy looking desktop effects ... I mean come on, what's the point ? Is anyone (besides you for the first hour of running the thing) gonna say whoah man ... your operating system is awesome ... ohhhh look everything's shiny and neat effects and wow ! Oh look the BSOD ... oh, man, I'm sorry for ya, but hey it's no biggie, just restart, and then you're back to your giant shiny turd OS that can't do shit but special visual effects making you think there's something really behind it all (besides a pile of shit)
Why not instead focus on productivity, stability, logical layout, ease of use ... NO ... people want their special effects and nothing more ... go to the fucking movies !!!
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