Considering that I just 2 posts ago found a reason to praise Microsoft
I thought I’d take this chance for a small rant against them:

Mr.
Paul Thurrot, grandfather of of Pro-M$ Speak and commander of
battilions of blended microsoft-lovers has published a nice overview of
the comming longhorn roadmap. including new screenshots:

The new Explorer is, functionwise, closer to the Mac OS X Finder
than to the current Explorer, as it seems. There is the Search Bar,
there seems to be some sort of Breadcrumb-Bar and the clumsy
space-wasting Menu has been reduced to ‘File’.  The whole window is
themed in a nice Plastic look, and I bet that it’ll look like pure
bliss with added Drop-Shadows and Gl-Effects. But still, most of this
seems to be quite close to what Apple already offers with its Finder.

And I still like the brushed metal more than that plastic look (so blue, reminds me of Eiffel65)

I guess I’m quite happy that I’m able to use a next-gen OS now instead
of in 1.5 years, Apple Hardware is not cheap, but considering that by
the time Longhorn will be on the Shelves Apple is going to be at 10.5,
and there’ll be even more incredible features like spotlight, core
image, expose, quartzgl etc, I think it might be worth the extra money
(although I just had damn luck that I got my G5 machine )

In other news: I’m drunk again. Feels great.