Karlos: So that they can say "look, we have a 3D accelerated graphical user interface engine too." to all the MacOS X users
Turning a 2D surface into a texture and doing slideshows is child's play. I wish they would improve their damned toolkits instead.
The principal benefit of as 3D accelerated desktop is user interface speed.
Unless, of course, their crack interface design department tries to add in all sorts of "directional" behavior, like on Macs. I've always found the Windows interface to be very responsive if it's programmed correctly, and I don't want that to change.
TBone: They're improving the console too.
Any change would be an improvement. I've never liked the old MS-DOS promt, but after starting to learn how bash works, CMD looks completely braindead.
Trev: Anyhow, it's still just Windows NT. The kernel has improvments and new features, but a prettier Windows Explorer and XML-based everything doesn't really do anything for me. :-/
I don't see the big fuss over getting everything based on XML. Like HTML, it's only nice if done correctly, and few know how to use it right. If you've ever looked at source XML generated by Microsoft PowerPoint, you'd die laughing. It's simply wretched. No wonder both MS Office and OpenOffice are such bloatware.
I'll continue using Windows 2000 until nothing runs on it, thank you.
