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Tmax Window event has ended but mystery still remains

Jul 12, 2009 15:34

July 7, TmaxCore finally showed off its new OS event with a crowd of invited media, IT industry people and bloggers. The show took a few hours but the actual OS demonstration was around 10 minutes! Tmax was focusing on the current OS market situation and how it had spent the last few years developing the Tmax Window and so on.

Many bloggers found this really annoying and I don't think any of their comments need to be translated back to you guys here.

I wasn't able to attend the event due to personal reasons, so I checked with those who had gone for the show and also read about it in most press and local blog posts.

Basically, the event didn't really show anyone what we wanted to know and hear about. Many questions still remained. The company announced that the official release of Tmax Window would be in November 2009. Let's see how it is going to finalize its OS development within the next three months. Even its first demonstration was awful and not clear.

Here are the brief details about the Tmax Window event.

First, OS booting and home screen of Tmax Window. (Credit: Acrofan)

MS Windows and Tmax Window 9 home screen are the same and TmaxCore tells us it's for user convenience. (This gives MS something to do here.)


This is Tmax Window 9 Stack that I found in its press release. (If anyone would like to know.)



TmaxCore presents its OS' specialty with six points, which is micro kernel, compatibility, multiple OS, security, user experience, DB embedded. I think compatibility is key point here if this OS gets real in November.

OS compatibility is all about applications and device drivers. This is the diagram of how it solves this problem.



The other applications that TmaxCore also introduced at the event were Tmax Office and Tmax Scoutor. Unfortunately, these software were demonstrated on Windows XP. So I'm not too sure that the Scoutor Web browser really supports ActiveX plug-in here or not since Scoutor was developed based on a Webkit engine. The company needed to be clear how this loads the ActiveX plug-in if it runs from Windows XP, but it didn't specify so at the event.

The Tmax Office demonstration also simply showed that it could open and edit MS Office files, no more, no less. It would have been better if the company had demonstrated all those applications from Tmax Window.

Tmax Office will have compatibility for OOXML (MS Office 2007), ODF (Open Office) and MS binary (MS Office 97-2003) as well. And here is the structure of how it is creating this.



TmaxCore also presented Tmax Scoutor's ACID3 test results as below, but I'm not too sure this is worth presenting since most of the recent Web browsers have 100 from below.



Well, Koreans use MS IE because of ActiveX and if TmaxCore wants us to replace the Web browser with Scoutor, it surely has to support ActiveX. Apparently, it is saying yes as below.


And JavaScript compatibility developed as seen in the structure below.



Many people who attended this event said TmaxCore needs to verify and announce which part is being developed by the company, and which part is using open source. Since there are similar concepts of open OS being developed over the years, we would like to know the truth about this. Here's hoping we can say this is one of the greatest projects developed by a Korean software company later on rather than that it has ruined our expectation of this new OS and become something of a laughing stock worldwide.

If you'd like to get more information about this OS and its applications, you can download the pdf documents from these links: Whole Project, Tmax Window, and Tmax Applications.

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