Innovation

[mikeymike]

I'm having difficulty visualising the advantages over normal a FS?

Currently, a journalling filesystem is the holy grail of filesystem design.

I can't find an explanatory URL so here goes:

The basic idea is, in theory, increased data integrity in the case of disaster.  Say for example the machine crashes during a write operation, the idea of the "journalling" is a database-type setup, where you keep a record of the old data/transactions, and allow rollback to old data if there is a need.

I don't think performance is an advantage.  I think developers are hoping to equal modern FS performance.

Come to think of it, what's the point for WinNTx, NTFS is pretty damn good already.

[mikeymike]

Bill Gates keeps talking about freeedom to innovate. How is eye-candy innovative? What does a user really "need" from a GUI other than sparkles? I think that is one of the many questions their GUI designers should be asking themselves.?

The problem is, most Americans seem to love the Disney-XP-look :-(

[mikeymike]

I think that all new computers users (and some old ones) should have to use a command prompt interface for a year (in the USA now) before they can graduate to a GUI. That way they can appreciate the GUI and if they lapse into some sort of stupidy involving pretty colors on their GUI then it's back to the prompt!

I think the only thing that will fix this problem is a credible alternative to the competition.  AmigaOS/compatibles in a few years' time, hopefully.  Something that'll show people that there are ways desktop computing can improve, and some things aren't set in stone even though MS try to persuade people they are.