newest copied feature in longhorn

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by jxyama
can UNIX really do this? one console. one desktop at a time. can i really switch to my desktop under my authority without knocking the previous desktop owner out? (of course the apps has to be kept open, otherwise, what's so fast about it if you can't come back to where you left off after the other user is done?)


as for the scroll wheel mouse, this is all i can find thus far.

Microsoft scroll wheel mouse in 1996

the page's focus is on M$ products so i'm probably wrong. but i also don't remember using a scroll wheel mouse in HS, as i was back in 1990. however, i do remember using scroll wheel toward the end of my college, around 1997.

i'd love to see your ref. on the logitech scroll wheel mouse some 5 years earlier than this one, as i was always under the impression microsoft invented the wheel mouse...

-jxyama

I tend to think the same that the only sucessful innovation that MS produced is the scroll mouse, though I'd live to see something earlier.

MS innovates all the time - it's just that it's usually so unsuccessful that it's funny to watch. Especially when they start to convince themselves that they actually invented something like "Personal computing" (Last week).

As for Fast User Switching, MSindeed lifted the concept from UNIX. Heck, it's been in the BSD code at the heart of OS X the whole time, what baffles me is why didn't Apple bring this through until now...

 

[Bluefusion]

Yep, it does look like you guys are right--the scroll wheel seems to be invented by MS (I can't find anything to the contrary, and searching the Patent Office is quite a nightmare!).

It's funny that Windows still doesn't have double-header scrollbars like Mac OS 9/X do... kind of limits the need for wheels, but I still have one anyway

 

[the future]

Originally posted by Bluefusion
Yep, it does look like you guys are right--the scroll wheel seems to be invented by MS (I can't find anything to the contrary, and searching the Patent Office is quite a nightmare!).

In this case, I bow to Microsoft, the Inventor Of The Mighty Scroll Wheel.

(Btw, if this is actually true, anybody dreaming of an Apple mouse with a scroll wheel can stop dreaming as it will obviously never happen.)

And now that I've seen the light of the scroll wheel, I'm just so glad MS isn't really evil... just a little "questionable":
http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/of_blogging_and.html
Go figure.

 

[jxyama]

future - i only brought it up since you asked...

patrick - i wasn't aware of it on UNIX. regardless, you are quite right, i was quite puzzled when i learned that i had to log out in order to let someone else get onto my Mac on one machine. (you can always ssh in from elsewhere...) anyway, i'm glad it's in panther now.