Monday, April 25, 2005
Windows czar calls Mac OS X Tiger 'a peripheral to the iPod'
OK, at the heart of this it's just 2 big computer companies bitching about each other, but I quite like the comment from MS that OS X is just a peripheral for the iPod because essentially that's what a good OS should be - completely transparent and supportive, not something the user has to explicitly work with to get things done. computers are complex but unintelligent, and so current operating systems are necessarily non-trival things to work with, but the way of the future lies in 'unremarkable computing'. so if what MS say about Mac OS X can be made to be true, I'll be happy.
OK, at the heart of this it's just 2 big computer companies bitching about each other, but I quite like the comment from MS that OS X is just a peripheral for the iPod because essentially that's what a good OS should be - completely transparent and supportive, not something the user has to explicitly work with to get things done. computers are complex but unintelligent, and so current operating systems are necessarily non-trival things to work with, but the way of the future lies in 'unremarkable computing'. so if what MS say about Mac OS X can be made to be true, I'll be happy.
Comments:
It sounds like a negative comment to me. "Peripheral to ipod" - like people would never notice Mac if not because of Ipod, just as no one knows about the mouse if not for the computer.
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