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Wednesday, July 31, 2002

I've been saying this for years...
For Linux or Mac OS X to truly succeed, let alone supplant Windows, they must offer a better customer solution than Windows and not simply ape the Windows GUI as they do now. So many people act like Mac OS X, especially, is revolutionary when, in fact, it does nothing more than put a (debatably) pretty face on the same tired desktop metaphor we've had for decades. This article by Thomas Krul expands on this simple concept, but then I've been arguing this for years. Interestingly, the only company outdoing the Windows GUI is Microsoft: Windows XP's task-based interface is lightyears ahead of OS X, KDE, and GNOME. Deal with it.

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