Windows Vista delayed - again

SubGenius> "A new Finder, native cocoa not carbon"

Arrgghh! I thought this meme had died a long time ago. Carbon is just as much "native" as Cocoa.

Cocoa is a high-level framework, programmed in Objective-C.
Carbon is a lower-level API, programmed in C and C++.

Cocoa programmers often use Carbon calls. Carbon programmers often use toll-free bridges to Cocoa structures. Both are NATIVE.

The suckiness of the Finder has nothing to do with the framework used (which for the Finder I believe still contains PowerPlant code). It's because by necessity it contained a lot of legacy code from pre-OS X day, wasn't properly multithreaded, and never got the "crack team of optimizers" working on it that it sorely needed, and because Apple never hired John Siracusa to personally oversee efforts to Fix the F****** Finder!

Man, I feel bad for MS programmers. They have to work through Xmas holidays. LOL!

Does this mean that the part of Vista that was going to be introduced 6 months after the rest of Vista will now be introduced with Vista, or is that part of Vista being pushed back, too (WinFX file system)?

And to those who say "I don't care if it is delayed, I want them to get it right." Gee, that approach never worked in the past, what makes you think that it's going to work with this over-bloated piece of code?

I wonder what it's like to work for a company that is its own buzz kill.

Things to look forward to in Leopard
- A new Finder, native cocoa not carbon, full screen mode
- Expose2, support for multiple virtual desktops
- Spotlight2, Better metadata support throughout the OS esp. the new Finder
- Dashboard2, set your widgets free!
- Automator2, more advanced workflows
- RemoteControl, VNC style remote control (ARD lite)

One more thing...
- Better Mail, iCal, AddressBook, iChat integration with iPhone

Oh, One more thing...
- FrontRow 2 with iTunes Movie service

That picture's great! Waiting for Godot is the perfect parallel to Vista, all those Windows users frozen into inaction, it really is tragic comedy.

LOL! - delayed yet again.

"Hasta la Vista, baby!" - Steve Jobs

Vista - a nice faraway view of pretty scenery.

Here is an interesting perspective on Windows Vista and how it will affect online video, music, and photos.

http://mrwavetheory.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-windows-vista-delay-is-bad-news.html

Why Windows Vista Delay is Bad News for Apple and Google

"If you have enough monkeys
banging randomly on typewriters,
they will eventually program our new
Operating System"

Bill Gates
March 2003

I remember watching an episode of the computer chronicles which aired in Jan 2002. They did a review of XP and said that if you already owned windows 2000 you might be better off waiting for Longhorn which should be out sometime in 2003. Now they have set a date of Jan 2007 (maybe)! HAHAHAHA. Oh Microsoft you've given me a hernia I'm laughing so much.......