Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 02:14:51 +0200 From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) Message-ID: <19970929021451.28241@grendel.IAEhv.nl> In-Reply-To: <19970928162256.26698@grendel.IAEhv.nl>; from Peter Korsten on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 04:22:56PM %2B0200 References: <19970927143934.ZN26834@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709272127.OAA11524@usr08.primenet.com> <19970928101941.03210@lemis.com> <19970928162256.26698@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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Peter Korsten (hey, that's me!) shared with us: > > Watch out for Windows 98, where browser and desktop are one (if I > understand it well). It could well be a first step into the direction > that user interfaces are heading. I took the liberty to download MS Internet Explorer 4.0 and Active Desktop today. OK, so it killed my personal background image and I can't find it anymore, but for the rest: wow. I really don't know what to think about it. It's as customizable as you'd ever want, far more than anything I've ever seen with any OS before. You can create a HTML page for your desktop and for any single folder (directory). That HTML code, BTW, is horribly complicated. I doubt that you'll be able to understand it without using FrontPage (well, that figures). Consider it, having a JavaScript application run when you open a folder... Knowing Microsoft, I wouldn't invest too much time in devising all kinds of user interfaces based on TCL, Java or Motif, to keep up with them. A GUI still is a good idea (networking, for instance, is scattered over several files in /etc), but I guess it's browsers from now on, brought to us in the usual gentle MS way. - Peter
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