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It looks like it might coincide with the release of Windows Vista.... (hahaha)
To date, the only information Apple has provided about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that it will come sometime between late 2006 and 2007 and that it will be Intel compatible. Meanwhile, anonymous sources revealed to MacosXrumors the first major feature of Leopard and it looks like it has to do with the Finder.
According to the sources, Apple will entirely re-design the Finder in its next major Mac OS X update. The new version of the Finder, code-named “Chardonnay” (like the wine), will be totally based on the Spotlight meta-search technology which was introduced earlier this year with Tiger.
The extensive use of Spotlight in the next version of Finder will bring the following enhancements to it:
- significant overall performance increase
- improved user interface
- even more integrated Spotlight related features (search, smart folders, document previews…).
The aim behind this new Finder is to offer to the user the ability to browse his files just as he browses his music. Users will be able to browse files by different criterias (name, type/creator, creation date, modification date…).
Sounds innovative as usual, and will probably feature in the version of windows after Vista.
How can you say a statement like that? You copied the Mac theme and show no loyalty???
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It looks like it might coincide with the release of Windows Vista.... (hahaha)
To date, the only information Apple has provided about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that it will come sometime between late 2006 and 2007 and that it will be Intel compatible. Meanwhile, anonymous sources revealed to MacosXrumors the first major feature of Leopard and it looks like it has to do with the Finder.
According to the sources, Apple will entirely re-design the Finder in its next major Mac OS X update. The new version of the Finder, code-named “Chardonnay†(like the wine), will be totally based on the Spotlight meta-search technology which was introduced earlier this year with Tiger.
The extensive use of Spotlight in the next version of Finder will bring the following enhancements to it:
- significant overall performance increase
- improved user interface
- even more integrated Spotlight related features (search, smart folders, document previews…).
The aim behind this new Finder is to offer to the user the ability to browse his files just as he browses his music. Users will be able to browse files by different criterias (name, type/creator, creation date, modification date…).
Sounds innovative as usual, and will probably feature in the version of windows after Vista.
they both rip off each other, I would have expected you of all people to know that shayaan, however i will explain it in the simplist manner possible.
A man makes an operating system (lets call this man Ted).
Now another man called Mike comes alongs and says I can make a better operating system than you, so Mike does.
Now along comes Ted and says I can make a second version of my operating system and make it better than your Mike.
This continues for enternity in exactly the same way.
Mac ripped off Windows and Windows ripped off Mac, by copying the "GUI elements"... remember the lawsuit?
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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems.
Some critics claimed that Apple was really attempting to gain all intellectual property rights over the desktop metaphor for computer interfaces, and perhaps all GUIs, on personal computers.
Apple lost all claims in the lawsuit, except that the court ruled that the trash can icon and file folder icons from Hewlett-Packard's now-forgotten NewWave windows application were infringing. The lawsuit was filed in 1988 and lasted four years; the decision was affirmed on appeal in 1994, and the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Apple was denied.
Apple has also copied certain innovations from other companies: tabbed dialogs on Macintosh appeared after IBM used them in OS/2. Since the original settlement of the lawsuit, many features of the Macintosh and Windows GUIs have been incorporated into the windowing environments of unrelated third-parties, such as OpenWindows, X11, and Solaris. While it could be argued that the Mac OS X dock is stolen from the Windows taskbar, the Mac OS dock is actually derived from the NeXTSTEP dock (Mac OS X itself originating from NeXTSTEP). However, the idea of a program taskbar or dock is a major design feature of RISC OS, which already featured its so-called iconbar as early as 1987.
That's how human nature works, how competition and improvement works, we all gte inspirations and ideas from somewhere, from Nature, from other peoples works, and we refine them, and improve upon other people's work. If either Mac or Windows did not exist, the advance would not be so great!
Well if you haven't noticed yet, as long as Apple and Microsoft exist, their OS's will get more and more like each other. Its how a lot of technology works. It will basically come down to who implements it better. Apple has a great head start and Microsoft is beginning to run out of ideas of how to make its OS better and actually implement them. 65% of the new features that were supposed to be in Windows Vista were dropped and they're still having major issues getting the consumer OS released. Basically Windows Vista will be Windows XP SP3 with an OS X type interface on it. Again, Windows is starting to get closer to Apple with its OS. Apple has take a few features from Windows such as Fast User Switching, but Apple has implemented it better IMO. So what it all boils down to is that Apple and Microsoft in the end will have the same basic OS, but I think Apple will have a much better OS in the long run because it will just work, be highly scalable, upgradable, and easier to use.
Honestly, I think Microsoft should stop what they're doing right now with Vista, scrap their OS and re-write a totally new OS from the ground up with a built-in compatibility layer similar to Classic Mode in OS X so that people can still use their old Windows 98-XP apps, and a completely new set of apps. Now they can build the OS exactly the way they want it and not have to make everything compatible in a single layer of the OS. They can build a much more secure OS, easier to use, put the features in they want and implement it the way they want. In the end, they may just end up doing this. I can't see them improving Vista without doing so. Its absolutely crazy that it takes Microsoft 4+ years to come up with a successor to XP. This is the richest company in the world and they can't figure out how to improve their main product in a timely manner. Obviously something's wrong there....
The original major rip-off was done by M$ though. Apple had just developed their GUI with the Desktop metaphore ("inspired" by Xerox, sure) and M$ blatanly copied them, even though explicitely assuring Apple (Steve Jobs) not to use certain features. After that, it was still M$ that would do most of the copying. Can't think of a concrete example of Apple actually coying M$ right now ... but if they did, they took a feature and vastly improved it.
Macrion is right, M$ started the photo copiers back when the GUI came to be. Can anyone point out features in the Leopard Preview that are copied off Windows?
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