Some companies never change. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 35,000 laptop batteries from Sony, after several reports of fires.
Nineteen consumers have reported the batteries overheating; of that group, 17 reported flames, and two suffered minor burns. The recalled batteries are shipped in some Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell notebooks.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/laptop-fires-pr.html
Jump lists provide quick access to application features. Applications that use the system API for their Most Recently Used list (the list of recently-used filenames that many apps have in their File menus) will automatically acquire a Jump List containing their most recently used files. There's also an API to allow applications to add custom entries; Media Player, for example, includes special options to control playback.Why not copy OS X's dock while you're at it?
Window management has also undergone changes. In recognition of the fact that people tend only to use one or two windows concurrently, 7 makes organizing windows quicker and easier. Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes it automatically; dragging it off the top of the screen restores it.I already had this on Gnome for years!
Another common task that 7 improves is "peeking" at windows; switching to a window briefly just to read something within the window but not actually interact with the window. To make this easier, scrubbing the mouse over the taskbar thumbnails will turn every window except the one being pointed at into a glass outline; moving the mouse away will reinstate all the glass windows. As well as being used for peeking at windows, you can also peek at the desktop.Compiz does it better, and peeking on the desktop, OS X had it since Panther at least.
Peeking at the desktop is particularly significant, because the desktop is now where gadgets live. Because people are increasingly using laptops, taking up a big chunk of space for the sidebar isn't really viable; Microsoft has responded by scrapping the sidebar and putting the gadgets onto the desktop itself. Gadgets are supposed to provide at-a-glance information; peeking at the desktop, therefore, becomes essential for using gadgets.You mean like OS X's Dashboard?
The icons themselves have also been streamlined to make common tasks (such as switching wireless networks) easier and faster.Copying Apple again?
Windows 7 introduces a new concept named Libraries. Libraries provide a view onto arbitrary parts of the filesystem with organization optimized for different kinds of files. In use, Libraries feel like a kind of WinFS-lite; they don't have the complex database system underneath, but they do retain the idea of a custom view of your files that's independent of where the files are.Smart folders by another name?
"If you want to run full internet, you're going to have to run an Intel-based architecture," Intel wackaloon said.Why not slam desktops and laptops that use AMD, after all according to your twisted logic they are incapable of delivering the full Internet experience. Or what about other processors that aren't x86, like the PowerPC, Cell, DEC Alpha and MIPS, are they also incapable of providing full Interent experience? The reason Apple went with ARM and will continue to do is because you don't offer anything better!
"Apple just reported one of the best quarters in its history, with a spectacular performance by the iPhone -- we sold more phones than RIM," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. "We don't yet know how this economic downturn will affect Apple. But we're armed with the strongest product line in our history, the most talented employees and the best customers in our industry. And $25 billion of cash safely in the bank with zero debt."Apple profits rise 26% on sales of 2.6M Macs, 6.8M iPhones
Now I think of it, version numbering never mattered in software.
Microsoft's on-going press conference at TGS today revealed that Namco Bandai's upcoming Tekken 6 will arrive on the Xbox 360 sometime in Fall 2009.Source GameSpy
