Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Ars has a typically exhaustive review of Windows Vista. The short version: Microsoft has now achieved technological parity with Mac OS X, circa 2001, by implementing features (vector-based graphics, high-level object-oriented APIs, separating UI design from code) that were first introduced by NEXTSTEP in 1989. Interestingly, even if NeXT had patented these technologies, it probably wouldn’t have mattered much because the relevant patents would be on the verge of expiring by now.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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