I was reading an article on Mac history. Around the time of Mac OS 7 Apple started working on the new Mac OS which was called Copeland. It was going to add multitasking, memory pretection, etc, etc, to the Mac OS.
It turns out they had all sorts of problems and the project was dealyed over and over. Then Windows 95 came out - it was pretty Mac like and offered most of the features that Apple said copland would have. Many Mac users started considering Windows for the first time.
Apple was desperate and at one point even consderd buying Windows NT or Solaris and making it look Mac like - rather than create their own new operating system. As we all know they finally settled on what is now OS X.
I see history repeating itself. Windows Vista is adding many OS X features to be equal to OS X and it has few neat ideas of its own *AND* MS is alreay working on their next operating system.
So where does OS X go from here? Just keep adding new features or improvements? Or is there a possiblity of a quatum leap like the orginal Mac OS was.... maybe a new complete new OS, [like BeOS] that is made to handle video and audio, and isn't just a desktop concept for office work?
A few things I would like to see in the next OS X: multiple desktops, the ability to run each program in its own screen resolution [like the Amiga], a built in ability to view most MS Office docs.
And how about a replacement for the desktop concept finder? Maybe you would mouse over a "digital town" instead of the desktop...you would go the the civic/concert center for all Audio and Video files, and all realted programs would be there, so would all audio settings, and you would have a Offcie center, all office programs, documents and office settings would be there... this seems better than having audio files in one folder, an auido program elsewhere, and settings in another place. Oh, and each "place" could have its own screen resolution also.
Other ideas?
It turns out they had all sorts of problems and the project was dealyed over and over. Then Windows 95 came out - it was pretty Mac like and offered most of the features that Apple said copland would have. Many Mac users started considering Windows for the first time.
Apple was desperate and at one point even consderd buying Windows NT or Solaris and making it look Mac like - rather than create their own new operating system. As we all know they finally settled on what is now OS X.
I see history repeating itself. Windows Vista is adding many OS X features to be equal to OS X and it has few neat ideas of its own *AND* MS is alreay working on their next operating system.
So where does OS X go from here? Just keep adding new features or improvements? Or is there a possiblity of a quatum leap like the orginal Mac OS was.... maybe a new complete new OS, [like BeOS] that is made to handle video and audio, and isn't just a desktop concept for office work?
A few things I would like to see in the next OS X: multiple desktops, the ability to run each program in its own screen resolution [like the Amiga], a built in ability to view most MS Office docs.
And how about a replacement for the desktop concept finder? Maybe you would mouse over a "digital town" instead of the desktop...you would go the the civic/concert center for all Audio and Video files, and all realted programs would be there, so would all audio settings, and you would have a Offcie center, all office programs, documents and office settings would be there... this seems better than having audio files in one folder, an auido program elsewhere, and settings in another place. Oh, and each "place" could have its own screen resolution also.
Other ideas?
