Michal Ždanský Microsoft unveiled its new vision for operating systems at a private press event on Tuesday. Less than a thousand journalists had the opportunity to see some of the functions of the operating system called Windows 10, whose ambition is to unite all Microsoft platforms under one roof. As a result, there will no longer be Windows, Windows RT and Windows Phone, but a unified Windows that will try to erase the difference between a computer, a tablet and a phone. The new Windows 10 is thus more ambitious than the previous version of Windows 8, which tried to offer a unified interface for tablets and ordinary computers. However, this experiment did not meet with a very positive response.
Although Windows 10 is supposed to be a unified platform, it will behave a little differently on each device. Microsoft demonstrated this on the new Continuum feature, which is designed especially for Surface devices. While in tablet mode it will primarily offer a touch interface, when the keyboard is connected it will turn into a classic desktop so that open applications will remain in the same state as they were in touch mode. Applications and the Windows Store, which were only full-screen on Windows 8, can now be displayed in a smaller window. Microsoft practically takes inspiration from responsive websites, where different screen sizes offer a slightly different customized interface. Applications should behave similarly to a responsive website - they should practically work on all Windows 10 devices, whether it's a phone or a laptop, with a modified UI, of course, but the core of the application will remain the same.
Many will welcome the return of the Start menu, which, to the chagrin of many users, Microsoft removed in Windows 8. The menu will also be expanded to include live tiles from the Metro environment, which can be set as desired. Another interesting feature is window pinning. Windows will support four positions for pinning, so it will be possible to easily display four applications side by side by simply dragging them to the sides. However, Microsoft has "borrowed" another of the interesting functions from OS X, the inspiration is obvious here. Copying features between competing systems is nothing new, and Apple is not without fault here either. Below you can find the five biggest features that Microsoft has more or less copied from OS X, or at least been inspired by.
1. Spaces/Mission Control
For a long time, the ability to switch between desktops was a specific feature of OS X, which was especially popular with power users. It was possible to display only certain applications on each desktop and thus create themed desktops, for example for work, entertainment and social networks. This function now comes to Windows 10 in practically the same form. It's a wonder Microsoft didn't come up with this feature sooner, the idea of virtual desktops has been around for a while.
2. Exposition/Mission Control
Virtual desktops are part of a feature called Task View, which displays thumbnails of all running apps on a given desktop and lets you easily move apps between desktops. Does this sound familiar? It's not surprising, because that's exactly how you could describe Mission Control in OS X, which arose from the Exposé function. It has been part of the Mac operating system for over a decade, originally appearing in OS X Panther. Here, Microsoft did not take napkins and transferred the function to its upcoming system.
3.Spotlight
Search has been a part of Windows for a long time, but Microsoft has improved it significantly in Windows 10. In addition to menus, apps, and files, it can also search websites and Wikipedia. What's more, Microsoft has placed search in the main bottom bar in addition to the Start menu. There is a fairly obvious inspiration from Spotlight, the search function of OS X, which is also available directly from the main bar on any screen and can search the Internet in addition to the system. However, Apple has significantly improved it in OS X Yosemite, and the search field can, for example, convert units or display results from the Internet directly in the Spotlight window, which is no longer part of the bar in OS X 10.10, but a separate application ala Alfred.
4. Notification Center
Apple brought the notification center feature to its desktop operating system in 2012 with the release of Mountain Lion. It was more or less a portation of the existing Notification Center from iOS. Despite the identical functionality, the feature never became very popular in OS X. However, the ability to place widgets and interactive notifications could help increase the use of the Notification Center. Microsoft has never had a place for saving notifications, after all, it brought its equivalent to Windows Phone only this year. Windows 10 should have a notification center in the desktop version as well.
5. AppleSeed
Microsoft has decided to offer selected users early access to the operating system through beta versions that will be released over time. The entire update process should be very simple, similar to AppleSeed, which is available to developers. Thanks to it, beta versions can update just like stable versions.
Windows 10 isn't due out until next year, select individuals, especially those who want to help improve the upcoming system, will be able to try it out soon, Microsoft will provide access to the beta version as we mentioned above. From the first impressions, it seems that Redmond is trying to correct the mistakes it made in Windows 8, while not giving up on the idea that was the philosophy of the not very successful system, that is, one system without depending on the device. One Microsoft, one Windows.
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Sorry for the minor dig, but this really doesn't work for me. The sentence "The ability to switch between desktops has long been a specific feature of OS X" does not indicate the great awareness of the history of operating systems and user interfaces that I would expect from the author of an article on this topic.
Virtual desktops originated at Xerox PARC (like most elements of the desktop/windows paradigm from which desktop GUIs still "describe") and were first implemented in 1986. They became more mainstream in 1989, when the idea was implemented by window swm manager for X Window System. Since then, i.e. some 25 years ago, switching between desktops has been familiar to all users of both Unix workstations and later GNU/Linux, *BSD and other systems that use the X Window System.
So in this context, OS X (also Unix, but with a GUI not primarily based on X Windows) adopted this idea with a considerable delay, and certainly cannot be claimed to be in any way specific about it. It is true, however, that in the case of Windows they took even more time with this feature :-)
Like the 5, it's not really an Apple invention.
Anyway, I copy everyone (yes, even Apple) and it's good.
discovery can be said yes, invention no... And it's one thing if you find something in research laboratories where you can estimate the potential, buy it and really be able to break through with it, and another thing if you copy it from a competitor because it works for them...
Not that a different (sometimes only dev) preview hasn't been around in MS for years. Anyone else who remembers Longhorn knows how they ran with it ten years ago.
So he just the tabloid headline indicated that the level of the article would be at a "high" level
I can't dig, but from the sentence: "The ability to switch between desktops has been a specific feature of OS X for a long time", I don't read that only OS X has this feature, rather that it is the main advantage or feature of OS X.
However, the term "specific function" is commonly used for something that is exclusive or almost exclusive to a given thing and does not occur anywhere else or almost anywhere else (cf. e.g. "specific function of mitochondria", "specific type of inheritance", etc.) . It is the opposite of the term "non-specific function", which describes something that is quite common.
Taken out of context like this, we could understandably dissect it forever. But the overall tone of the article, regardless of the specific wording, apparently wanted to be such that Windows 10 copies the unique and original features of OS X. However, virtual desktops are definitely not a good example of such a feature, because it is a non-specific feature of OS X (it is neither unique nor original).
Specific = not only exclusive but also typical, characteristic, distinctive. Which really makes sense to me on OS X. And yes, Linux also has virtual desktops, but also Android, etc. On the other hand, OS X also has it, and in the article where the functions that OS X has and which are also reflected in Win 10 are listed, it makes sense to me that they compare it with OS X :-)
The article doesn't just compare. The article is directly titled "Apple inspiration is obvious", but I don't see evidence of obvious Apple inspiration. In short, Microsoft could have been inspired anywhere else, because there are really many examples of "prior art". I'm not questioning the similarity, I'm questioning the fact that it's possible to say unequivocally what someone was inspired by.
In short, we probably all understand the overall tone of the article differently :-)
But that's how you phrase it :-) you can question almost every article like that :-)
On the other hand, they haven't been in OS X long enough (I'm guessing since Leopard, ie around 2006) to really be a feature of OS X. Right? And what's more, they weren't even usable in the Leopard.
It's 8 years, how many years does something generally have to last for it to be characteristic? Yeah, well, it's not determined by the number of years :D
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Probably the most Microsoft copies the name of the system, maybe it wasn't here yet to copy everything :))) I'd rather buy a real Mac OS X than this other shit. In my opinion, it is not quite possible to optimize the system for all devices, be it resolution, performance, memory, display. MS wants everything and in the end it sucks, everyone prefers the classic desktop from windows 7, I'm installing it on windows 8 and I'll do the same in the case of windows 10, I'll probably turn off some active tiles.
I, on the other hand, keep my fingers crossed for them and look forward to it. In my opinion, this is the way to the future, so that there is the same system everywhere and thus simpler administration for both BFU and experts. Of course, time will tell how they will succeed. And now I'm just waiting for Apple to come up with something similar (and you bet it won't be long).
And I would say again that with the whole iOS 7 Apple copied Windows Phone ... I don't condemn it and it's a normal development ... to take some features, appearance and try to push them a bit further ... and that's why I'm glad in a way that Android is here .. not that I use it, but it has created a usable alternative and keeps Apple on its toes, benefiting the user first and foremost.
It's the same with desktop systems.. if it wasn't for Windows, we'd have Mac OS 19 right now, which looks like Mac OS 7... better.
As for the management sticks, I'm not sure if you'll be using the iPhone apps on a Mac. Some yes and some no. User accounts are not so necessary on mobile phones and tablets, they take up space and slow down the entire system, everyone has their own device anyway, I don't use them much even on a home PC... The whole integration has a lot of problems and the market for home devices behaves significantly differently than companies and MS he hasn't figured it out yet, he just copies everything, stores, presentation names, they are worse than the Chinese when they copied tires, so they took the damaged ones and did it with that too :)))
I can't seem to find what Apple stole from Microsoft. Anyone have a link?
mostly customers
I probably won't put everything together. At least with things like ASLR, driv MS arrived.
Otherwise, these "switches" go in all directions: MS and Apple copied the notification center from Google. On the touch device, which Google copied from Apple... And you need to lean towards digital (as opposed to skeuomorphic, not in the sense of "on a computer") design for a change, MS started. I'm glad that I'm copying reciprocally.
The copying is really everywhere and I don't mind it either.
When two do the same thing, it's not the same thing, and M$ (nothing against him) always does everything the hell anyway.
It would be great if such topics were handled by someone who knows the context.
I must be getting old, because I honestly don't care if someone is copying someone or not. If it were still like this under Jobs, I would probably be experiencing it. Well, if MS managed to tighten up the "spotlight" like Apple (example: I write some text and if it is contained inside a PDF document, it opens immediately), then I will say that MS copied something. Only the very existence of a search field somewhere on the desktop is just an insignificant cosmetic for me and it is not worth solving. But maybe sevens can already do it, I don't know. At work, we have win of a slightly older date. Werich would say hodata. ((:
Well, TVL, things are going to hell with the articles here. Did you happen to recruit that brat Novotný to the team? He always has similar tabloid headlines and articles completely about shit..
it's burt, do whatever you want. I don't go to Win.
I remember from school, actually I don't remember anymore, that psychologists have a term for this activity. Or, even if it is nonsense and you want to convince yourself of your version, in the case of this article about nonsense, you can put the information together in such a way that you "plausibly" convince yourself of your fiction. However, in a certain stage of development, they all end up on a similar level, just like manufacturers of left-hand drive cars, even if you see something exotic here and there. And now you can only argue about what came first, the chicken or the egg. The sensible ones don't care and they just choose something and are either satisfied or dissatisfied and go elsewhere. And then there are those patients who have to convince others about nonsense.
I don't want to, thanks...