September 29, 2003
another look at longhorn
a review of the 4015 build of longhorn, from april (sadly old i know). i posted this one some months ago, but a reread of the article revealed more to me in light of my thinking about filtering. scroll down about halfway through the review to the heading "Libraries, pivot views, Carousel view and stacks"
it is interesting, not just for the newviews, but the underlying move to remove drive letters and folders from the user. for apple, this has been standard, for windows it is new. also worth noting - the new version of photoshop is supposed to allow the ability to put more metadata into image files. wasnt it you kurt who wanted rfid tags in everything? looks like we will be starting on the desktop.
when 2005 rolls around and os xi and longhorn are out...the world will be a very very different place.
Comments
What good are RFID tags embedded into an digital image sitting on a computer? How is this possible? I don't quite follow. I do think that the way of organizing data via "stacks, pivot views, carousel and libraries" is an interesting phenomena, but it still doesn't seem to eliminate folders as a general organizational structure in OS X. I would also challenge the idea of the world being a different place after this release, as I still see people fighting change constantly. WinXP brought about enough of a stink over very simple GUI changes. I see people shying away from Longhorn.
Posted by: Mike at September 30, 2003 12:00 AM
i didnt mean there actually would be rfid tags in the computer. i meant that it appears this is where we will begin tagging objects (and their relationships to other objects [annotating types of pictures and longhorn's library views]). i imagine once the desktop kinks are worked out, itll be easier to understand the relationships in the real world and then rfid tags will roll out harder. does that make more sense? sorry for the confusion.
Posted by: tripp at September 30, 2003 03:43 PM
