Saturday, July 08, 2006

Functioning Form - SxSW: OSX and Longhorn Development

The most interesting notes out of this panel discussion about OS X vs. Longhorn design were:

  1. MS was really sidetracked by the security issues for about two years, putting OS development on the back burner. I wonder how much of a leg up this gave Apple in terms of development years.
  2. OS X was developed in such secrecy that there was no user testing. Weird, and probably harmful. I wonder how much testing they do now?

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