[NTLK] Oh yeah?

OK...I'm a Windows guy. Everybody here knows this...but I'm also a Newton user...so when I read this in an interview with Bill Gates, I just had to say "Oh Yeah?"
Here, check it out...;
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M: When you look at operating systems, like Windows, what has gone right and wrong? What do you see that you need to add over the next decade or so?
B: Well, there is a famous quest of mine called integrated storage, where you have not just a file system but more of a very flexible object-type database: things like your contacts, calendars, favorites, your photos, your music—how you rate those things are stored in a much more structured environment. And so they can be navigated easily and move between applications very easily. And that hasn't happened.
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snip"
 
Hmmm, sounds alot like how our Newtons work, doesn't it? I wonder if this were to be brought to Gates' attention, if *HE* would resurect the Newton platform?
 
Here is the article URL:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2321133,00.asp
 
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
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Never mind that we just had an incredibly cold winter in North America and huge record snowfalls across the continent. As Al Gore said to a bunch of us the other day, these record cold spells and record snowfalls are actually caused by global warming. To which Jerry York replied, "Jeez then I guess we better stop this global warming before we all f**king freeze to death, eh?"

- "Fake" Steve Jobs 3/24/08 blog entry

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Received on Tue Jun 24 16:13:19 2008