MS Vista Look and Feel To Go Cross-Platform 365
Robert writes "As part of the announcement of the next generation look and feel for Windows Vista,
Microsoft said that it will make a subset of the new presentation layer available for
other platforms. 'Windows Presentation Foundation', the look and feel which provides the rich front end for
Vista, will also eventually be available in compact form for other platforms such as the
Apple Macintosh, older
versions of Windows, and smart devices such as phones or PDAs."
Linux (Score:5, Funny)
ActiveX and XP? (Score:5, Funny)
D'oh! I'm on Linux... *snaps* dang.
ActiveX Plugin (Score:5, Funny)
Yep. Because we all know and love the concept of ActiveX.
And put ANOTHER way... (Score:5, Funny)
blakespot
Separate into layers? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, great... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No market there (Score:4, Funny)
Porting the Vista gui to linux would be a step backwards for us.
Also, from the article:
ah, another reason NOT to upgrade. So why are they doing this? Perhaps its to try to keep people from defecting to linux, or to OSX or another of the BSDs.Their market share has nowhere to go but down, and they know it. It's just a question of how far, how fast. With this anouncement we can say:
Its nice to have Microsoft as such a deep well for comic material.Re:Will Vista just be a UI improvement over XP? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why contaminate? (Score:2, Funny)
>> windows, start that shit up and you basically
>> lose multitasking.
You may want to add some more RAM and move up to 8 MB..... 4 MB just doesn't cut it for a lot of applications.
Re:Will Vista just be a UI improvement over XP? (Score:5, Funny)
That just me laugh my head of
Re:No market there (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah but... (Score:2, Funny)