The first edition of Microsoft Corp’s Chicago – Windows 4 if you prefer, are just beginning to filter out to about 100 developers – with manuals that have very long numbers, unique to each developer, in grey in background on every page, so that they can track any leaks: word is that the thing looks like a cross between Motif and the Macintosh Finder; it uses nested folders instead of building a file tree to organise programs and data files, similarly to the Mac; Chicago seems to run reasonably well on a 50MHz 80486 with SuperVGA, although it seems to crash a lot; it has very sexy screens and lots of flickering stuff and dancing icons say those that have seen it, not to mention better control of MS-DOS Windows – but it still doesn’t have scalable fonts for system screens and truly scalable windows and icons – I don’t want my window video driver to dictate how big objects should be on my screen, says one who has seen it, who adds right now, the size of an object is based on its size in pixels – the higher the resolution, the smaller the object, which is basically stupid – they should make it all scalable, which would be a useful way to burn up MIPS for a young guy who gazes at at screens too much and is going blind…
