On 30 Jan 2006 at 18:04, David Wright wrote: [...]
Even Microsoft said that when NT was released, that the Windows graphical shell would just be one of many graphical shells that would be available for the NT OS... Over time they lost direction and we ended up with the monstrosity that is Windows XP/2003 today and Vista tomorrow... One of the reasons I like Linux is that it hasn't fallen into that trap, yet. The GUI is just a set of libraries and programs that sit on the OS and make the user experience better...
However Windows is rediscovering the command line, Server 2003 can even write a panic message through a serial port. So maybe they've learned the Linux lession. For server environments command line and text mode user interface are essential. Our servers all don't have keyboard nor monitor, not to talk about a mouse. When up they are accessed via SSH or application-level protocols, and when they are down they are accessed via serial management processor/console. Thus any pop-up would pop into nowhere. Regards, Ulrich