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Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: cahult on 25 February 2004, 14:13: http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/productinfo/conceptvid/default.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/productinfo/conceptvid/default.aspx)

At least Longhorn, to me, looks like a version of Amiga. Or is it Kaleidoscope on Mac OS 7? :D

BTW The download is big for these movies. I
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: Refalm on 25 February 2004, 15:41: Longhorn looks damn ugly, while AmigaOS kicks ass: screenshot (http://os.amiga.com/images/os4/OS4_Default_1.png)
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: WMD on 26 February 2004, 01:24: Longhorn is yucky-looking. :D

Also it showed off a few things that make it seem like the user doesn't have to do anything anymore. Bill is here to do that. And when it breaks (as it will), the people that sit there and think they know how to operate a computer will be helpless.

What a pile of shit.
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: bill_ford on 8 March 2004, 10:24: I always turn all the Themes with XP, Microsoft are going overbored with longhorn.
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: hm_murdock on 8 March 2004, 21:26: Uh... how does it look like Amiga?

Aside from being gray, neither of them are similar. Oh, and I find it rather stylish and attractive.

I, too, turn all my themes. Themes are like champagne, ya know. If you don't turn them, then they don't come out right.

::rolls eyes::

How are they going overboard? I love the double standard. Everyone is like "OS X and all the Linux themes are awesome! Longhorn is ugly!". MS could license the Aqua appearance and HI guidelines and you guys would say that it's ugly, or something else.

Blind hatred. That's all I see.

[ March 08, 2004: Message edited by: jimmyjames.sytes.net ]
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: young1024 on 26 March 2004, 21:53: quote:
Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
Uh... how does it look like Amiga?

Aside from being gray, neither of them are similar. Oh, and I find it rather stylish and attractive.

I, too, turn all my themes. Themes are like champagne, ya know. If you don't turn them, then they don't come out right.

::rolls eyes::

How are they going overboard? I love the double standard. Everyone is like "OS X and all the Linux themes are awesome! Longhorn is ugly!". MS could license the Aqua appearance and HI guidelines and you guys would say that it's ugly, or something else.

Blind hatred. That's all I see.

[ March 08, 2004: Message edited by: jimmyjames.sytes.net ]

Umm... he's right. We shouldn't stoop to Microsoft's level and just say this: "OS X and all the Linux themes are awesome! Longhorn is ugly!" just because they are from Microsoft. There are many other reasons to hate it.
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: hm_murdock on 26 March 2004, 13:28: I agree 100%. there are other reasons
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: Claris on 27 March 2004, 00:33: Jimmy, you would make a better case if Longhorn actually wasn't ugly. It looks like they copied an OSX ShapeShifter theme and had it re-done by a Disney intern on meth.

But for the record, I think Amiga is pretty fugly too.
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: hm_murdock on 27 March 2004, 00:44: quote:
Jimmy, you would make a better case if Longhorn actually wasn't ugly

I was unaware that this was a fact. Wow... silly me, here I was thinking the whole time that it was just an opinion. Man... I really am a dufus for thinking that, aren't I!

Man, you really showed me the light!
Title: Microsoft copying Amiga
Post by: enjoijeff on 28 March 2004, 04:06: I sense some sarcasm