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i wouldn't worry about Microsoft actually developing something new and useful. Unless Apple did it first of course.

• pius 19y ago
  To be fair, WinFS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS) had some really exciting ideas in it. I distinctly remember being a sophomore in college, looking forward to "Longhorn" because of things like WinFS, but having trepidation about it because of things like Palladium. Of course, that was a good six years ago. They ended up gutting both of those features out of Vista to get the OS out the door and even then it was years late. But I digress. :)
• strey 19y ago
  Bah, stop pandering to the Microsoft haters.
  • sabat 19y ago
    Actually that's not how I meant it. Regardless of who is working on it, it shouldn't stop you from working on it yourself and doing it better.
    • strey 19y ago
      And that's why you stuck "do it right" on at the end, eh?
      • sabat 19y ago
        "Do it right" means as opposed to doing something the way a big corporation would do it (generally design by committee or by apathetic drones). MS is certainly guilty of that, but I wasn't picking on them.
  • mixmax 19y ago
    It wasn't meant to pander anybody - it was merely stating an opinion...
    • strey 19y ago
      Ah, good point. On another note, people who vote on HN are the smartest people in the world. That's my opinion.
      • strey 19y ago
        Apparently the voters disagree.
        • icky 19y ago
          Maybe they felt pandered-to? ;)
          • strey 19y ago
            No, no, I'm just expressing an opinion, like mixmax. It's up to the voters whether they actually think they're so smart. For example, here is another opinion: icky is the best handle ever.
            • icky 19y ago
              Why, thank you! :)