New & Noteworthy: Understanding Cocoa and Carbon; Aqua interface opens new world for Mac

Mac OS X's Finder: Cocoa rewrite not the answer This article in The Register is one of the clearest and most concise summaries we've seen for end users who want to understand conceptual differences between Cocoa and Carbon. It focuses on the Finder as an example, but the issues it discusses affects Mac OS X in general.

Aqua interface opens a whole new world for Mac "Despite a bug here and there, the future is bright," writes Jon Fortt of the Edmonton Journal in this review of Mac OS X. He continues: "...after I started using Mac OS X's fluid, jewel-like Aqua interface, the rest of the computing world began to look homely."