While describing Mac OS X Tiger’s release, Contractor UK, “The IT Contractor Portal” writes of Mac OS X’s Exposé feature, introduced in Mac OS X Panther:
“Users will be pleased with the Expose [sic] feature that allows a re-sizing of Windows, available through Microsoft since 95, so multiple tasks can be viewed, while a key can also be assigned to allow instant desktop access.”
Full article here. [UPDATE: 12:10pm ET: The article has been removed from the Contractor UK site.]
MacDailyNews Take: For accuracy’s sake, perhaps an outlet targeted to IT should’ve taken the time to actually try Mac OS X Tiger before writing about it? If they had—or even just watched Apple’s online QuickTime movie of Exposé—they’d realize what any fool can easily see: Exposé has not been available since Windows 95 and is not even available today in Microsoft’s flagship Windows XP.
Classic! Window Resizing? Sometimes I’m just flabbergasted by IT “professionals.”
He is embarrassing.
Drugs. . . . . . poor guy needs help.
Will someone please show this young man the difference between his arse and his elbow.
Seriously, he can’t be comparing <Alt>+<tab> with expose?
Judging by the capital W on Windows, it looks like somebody did a sitewide search and replace to change “Windows” to “Windows, available through Microsoft since 95” and forgot to make it case-sensitive.
Muppets.
very interesting TC. i thought that sentence came off as a little weird.
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MDN let it be, all that Wintel news. Just focus on the Appel Mac world..
def-fo, he is comparing the ability to resize windows manually with expose. (most windows apps commandeer the entire screen when opening. i cant tell you how many people ask why they can still see app “a” when app “b” opens when looking at my powerbook.)
and not only that, this article is about new features in tiger. expose was available 18 months ago with the release of panther. what an idiot!
I emailed them asking where XP does this. We shall see and I will keep you guys posted.
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The amazing thing it that someone got paid for that.
Even more amazing, and in fact saddening is that there will be windows users who will read it, believe it and carry on in total ignorance of how backward the technology they’re using is. In fact they will think they’re better of using an os which based on that article is ahead of apple by ten years.
I think the writer is referring to task switching – minus points for poor writing, yes – but I dont think it was intentional.
Windows did have the “Show Desktop” quicklink dating back to, I think, Windows 98. I don’t think a “show desktop function” appeared until Expose in Panther.
Since he’s in the UK, I’d like to put my thoughts into comments that he’ll be sure to understand:
Bloody stupid git!!!!
Actually, expose for windows has been around for awhile now. Its called iEx. I use it often in XP. But it seems to work best on a more powerful system. The other nice thing about it, is customizability. Something OS X doesnt give you.
http://www.oxygen-inc.com/premium/InsaniSoft/iEx.htm
camus: “show desktop” may have showed up in Panther, but Show All, Hide App, and Hide Others has been around since System 7 and have a similar effect.
MDN Magic Word: “reaction”
Oh yeah, here’s another “Exposer for windows”
http://onlinetoolsteam.com/WindowsExposer/
And another
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/04/topdesk_expose_.html
“Evidently, the contest with Longhorn is fresh in the minds of Apple developers, but the unveiling of the Microsoft product in 18 months time is already being rubber stamped by commentators as the system Redmond will aspire to, and then have to better.”
Can anyone tell me what this paragraph means?
The whole article reads like one of my students’ cut-and-paste papers based on articles they don’t understand.
choc et al,
Ha! I think your right. He’s even further off the mark than I thought.
Most Dozers I show Expose too wet they’re pants with desire.
They know they want it but they’re too use to 2D to comprehend 3D.
The Dozer that wrote this article is an ant who just needs to look up once in a while.
We should pitty him and show him the way…
Windows did have the “Show Desktop” quicklink dating back to, I think, Windows 98. I don’t think a “show desktop function” appeared until Expose in Panther.
That wouldn’t entirely correct. If you use the “Hide Others” under Finder, you quickly mimic the “Show Desktop” functionality and this feature has been available to Finder even before Mac OS X.
so, which one of those is built into the operating system? Oh, they’re all third-party?? Thanks for playing…
It was favorable review, overall. I also like he uses the current 4% marketshare number rather than the more often quoted, out-of-date, 2.7%.
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Oi! Blissful ignorance.