“Think about it: how many of Apple’s new applications actually use traditional, overlapping windows for anything other than a frame around a unique interface? Garageband doesn’t. iTunes barely does except for video. All the Pro Apps like Final Cut, Motion, Aperture, and the like all trend toward paned, not overlapping window, interfaces. And new products like the iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV don’t use windows at all, relying instead on vastly simplified buttons and interfaces. Further, consumers are gaining experience with interfaces that rely on transparent panes instead of windows on new HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies,” Aric Winton and Carl Howe write for Blackfriars’ Marketing.
“Core Animation opens up the possibility of a brand new user interface. Time Machine is an example of an application that breaks a lot of conventions about window management, application windows and general user interfaces. Core Animation is what makes it all possible,” Winton and Howe write.
MacDailyNews Note: Click here for Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard Sneak Peek: Core Animation.
“Between transparent overlays and Apple’s Spaces feature to allow multiple virtual screens, Apple has eliminated many of the needs for overlapping windows cluttering up desktops. And just as Apple first recognized that computers no longer needed floppy disks any more, ridding consumers of overlapping windows may be the first step in a radical simplification of user experiences again,” Winton and Howe write.
“Doing away with overlapping windows in most of the OS would allow Apple a marketing bludgeon to use against Microsoft. In the marketplace of ideas, it would paint Microsoft’s six-years-in-the-making Vista as a completely old school effort. It would take Microsoft’s best-known and recognized brand — Windows — and make it appear as tired as DOS. It would be a marketing shot heard round the world — and it would be one that would take Microsoft years to copy,” Winton and Howe write.
Full article here.
Death to Windows!
Just don’t eliminate choices.
And death to Windows.
P.S. And according to MacWorld, Leopard has a brand new DVD player with support for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
Death to MS Office!
@ Connor MacBook
Yes. Now all together.
Death to Windows.
Ha Ha Ha. I love the smell of Failure in the morning.
MW = Truth. As in the truth has been spoken and Connor MacBook knows the writing on the wall.
Answer: Yes.
Try the utility FORKLIFT (search VersionTracker)!
FORKLIFT uses a dual-pane approach to file management. It is awesome. I rarely open windows in the finder now.
You will love it!
Well admittedly it would take a long time for Windows to die completely, but ever since I switched to Apples I have to say that I’ve been more and more excited about upcoming products, something I haven’t been for a long long time.
MDN: enough
Overlapping windows?
Give me an example of overlapping windows in VISTA (with a microsoft developed app)?
Welcome to The Club Merlyn 3D.
but time machine depends on windows :s
Let’s not go singing victory yet. Miles to go before we sleep guys sort of prose. Besides, we need windows around to show how poorly it compares.
What if Windows were to dissapear and people of the future didn’t know what dark ages of computing these were?
I’ve been hearing Apple’s death threats for years now. The only image that I can visualize is Steve Jobs letting fly with a tepid, limp-wristed slap at Bill Gates and knocking of Bill’s glasses. Steve yells, “I got you.” then runs away. Bill Gates cries, runs to Ballmer who consoles him with Power Point presentations showing Windows 94% worldwide market share.
Talk is cheap, but it keeps hope alive for the Mac fanbois.
Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!
/quote from Mars Attacks.
Personally, I prefer “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”
Please, people, don’t confuse killing windows with killing Windows.
It may be an option, but not the default setting.
Death to windows & death to Windows. Sounds like a win-win for Apple.
WIndows trolls are such losers that they’ve never even been laid.
“You can’t just go around killing everybody ok!?”
“why?”
“Because you just can’t!”
“why?”
BAMB!!!!
‘Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard to kill windows?’
This is smashing news!
What’s the difference between crap like this article’s headline, and all the constant and very tiring headlines of some starry-eyed marketing idiot promoting the next iPod “killer”? Most of us here think the next iPod “killer” is total BS; headlines like this article has is no different, it’s just OS X-centric.
Doze ( and Dull) are NOT going to be killed by Leopard. I hope Apple’s market share soars, but I’ll be extremely surprised if it ever exceeds 20%.
I think I just felt two 10 cent pieces move.
sounds great, i never liked windows, and they are not required anymore with the larger screens we have now.
Did anybody actually read TFA? It’s “windows”, not “Windows”. It’s about killing overlapping windows as the metaphor for an application.
Having said that, if Apple can get mind share for the change in application architecture, then Microsoft’s OS called “Windows whatever” will be seen as obsolete.