Re: MacExpo; the Ethiopian connection

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:23:25 +0000, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
wrote:


Would I also be right in remembering the default basic 'look' (as in
desktop / menus etc) did change across NT3.1, W2K, NT4, XP and Vista,
so although it was the same under the skin, each did 'look' slightly
different?

It wasn't the same under the skin (and you missed out NT3.5).

I didn't forget it as such but thought it was the same (visually) as
3.1 or 4 or summat.

3.1 looked similar to 3.5 (like windows 3.1), althought NT4 also looked
a lot like 3.5 when it came out, then it was quickly rereleased with a
windows 95 look when that came out.

There were
some serious modifications. NT3.5->4 the whole driver model changed (the
graphics driver moved - why a bad graphics driver can take NT/2000/Vista
out, but if they hadn't you wouldn't be playing games on it),

Just as well then and probably why I never used NT much .. (happy with
the basic offerings for my purposes (9X etc)

I used NT quite a bit, and 2000.

I never used the 9x systems for anything.

NT->2000
was also big changes, 2000->XP less so, XP->Vista quite big (but not as
big as it was supposed to be). And the look was different.

Indeed, and 'hiding' stuff (in comparison to XCP etc) like the ability
to change the workgroup name 'because Visa does it differently' ..(I
found it after a quick rummage though).

They all do something a bit different!


(page 2 - page one is just about OS<10. I also didn't read it - I just
meant the pictures) you can see (by looking at the changes of one part),
there has just been a gradual shift in looks, and although there have
been other changes the main thing is keeping people happy.

Sfunny, because my main interest in any OS is a means of supporting my
chosen app on my chosen platform I don't pay that much attention to
such things (interesting though the evolution screen shots are etc)
but simply click, select, adjust to make it do what I want and move
on.

Yes, but you can see how things didn't really appear to change that much


As with windows, a lot of people don't really like/handle change that
much.

I don't mind change as long as it adds good things, doesn't remove
good things and doesn't make those things I use regularly less
accessible or more complicated.

Like Vista, I don't like the fact that it won't run some of the basic
things it should (like the Toshiba laptop BIOS updater

We just got a new toshiba at work, and had been slagging it off for
being very cheaply built. I can't imagine it is very robust. It seems
much more like it was designed by 'ticking the boxes' of things it had.

Had problems putting vista on it, couldnt do a clean instal as vista
couldn't get a driver for 'toshiba raid', even using the 'toshiba raid'
vista driver from the toshiba site.
It upgraded ok, so I don't know why it needed it.

still had XP on another caddy drive) and makes some basic things more
complicated and as yet I've not noticed anything that *I* find it's
particularly better at?

It is better at some things, I guess you just don't need those things.

--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
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