Longhorn arrives with a whimper [blogs.law.harvard.edu]

Happy thoughts about Microsoft Longhorn from Philip Greenspun. I would add that developers actually are smarter (well, better equipped) than in the early 1990s - look at how good BeOS became with so few developers and so little time. It actually did have some innovations in core functionality like the file system.

Come on Microsoft, and Apple for that matter.

Oh yes - frequent readers will be surprised - I can find fault with Apple as well! While I LOVE having MacOS X based on Unix, it would not have been necessary had MacOS 8 worked (the real MacOS 8 - ie. Copland). Mmmm, OpenDoc...

And of course no-one would be using Unix at all if Apple and IBM had have actually pulled off Pink aka Taligent... sigh. At least my fonts are anti-aliased under X.org ...