How is Vista & XP stealing from OS X?

chort · 02-11-2007, 03:40 PM

OS X's marketshare has nothing to do with usability; it's entirely do to with third-party software support.

Then again, you don't have any clue what you're talking about, so I don't know why I'm wasting my time on you. Time to find out if there's a forum ignore feature...

Edit: YES! There is an ignore feature. Quick Links -> User Control Panel -> Miscellaneous -> Buddy / Ignore Lists. Now I don't need to be bothered reading nonsense.

Jorophose · 02-11-2007, 04:37 PM

That's good for you, chort.

It does have to do with usability. If it's a good platform, people will migrate, and then software will be written for it. You can't seriously tell me the only reason why Apple 2 because popular is because someone wrote VisiCalc for it, and without it it would never exist. People saw how the Apple 1 and previous Apple 2 designs were doing, ported their software, and BAM! Success.

Mega Man X · 02-11-2007, 05:00 PM

Jorophose, may I ask why you are shutting down the X-server in order to install Firefox?.

Anyway, I just wanted to add that Microsoft actually has a freely available "Search your files as you type" alternative to google desktop called "Windows Desktop Search" (short: WDS). It works with Win2k (SP4) or higher and it is great. I personally prefer that one than google's.

I can't see how WDS is different from the build in feature that Vista has, but would like to know, because this is highly useful and addictive

Jorophose · 02-11-2007, 05:12 PM

;P

I didn't know the shortcut to get to the terminal. Doesn't exiting X-server result in the same thing, though?

Most of the stuff added to Vista was shown in ~2002, it's just they didn't know how they were going to put it in there alongside the possible new kernel and the DRM...