On 6/4/06, Pankaj Dekate whoispankaj@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/3/06, Puneet Lakhina puneet.lakhina@gmail.com wrote:
This a link to a review of vista beta with a humongous amount of screenshots.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_vista/
I am posting this link here coz i was shocked to find the extent of just simple plain copying of features that has been done in internet exploere 7. It borrows tabbed browsing, rss feed reader, explicit mgmt of add ons.. list i
Now a humble request "please do not start another MS War over here...." It just makes the list uninteresting...So what if they have tabbed browsing,rss feed reader and ... in their new version of IE.Are you going to sue them for that?It just makes the competition interesting... Lets mind our job of making linux interesting to use than to be reading articles of MS and keep pointing to the list "Hey they have copied this.Howcould they do this?"......Let the list know if they have a new feature which linux does not have.That would be appreciated by people in the list.Evenif MS would have acknowledged the fact, there would be tons of others who would still point fingers to them.
Pankaj
point taken.. but its imp that ppl realize a lot of the self proclaimed innovation on mircsoft's part is just plain "picked up".. it reduces the ooh-aah effect that windows n m$ products have on ppl ..n also reading about what ms is doing isnt really a wortless activity.. coz after all software business wouldnt be half as intresting if there was no one like M$ to compete with...
Ok as far as something to learn from it.. well they have something called a preview feature whereby all open windows are like displayed as thumbnails.. like tiles.. which i think could be a really good..