One of the most common navigation structures in software is the tree view directory.
It’s logical, it makes sense, it’s easy to quickly find what you’re looking for and it’s immediately recognizable for just about any computer easy old or new.
My only gripe is that it takes up so much room when you’re two or three levels into the navigation.
As you can see from my screen grab from Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2005, there’s a lot of wasted space on the left of the tree.
At the bottom of this post I’ve added another picture where I’ve sliced out some …read more

I’m just going to throw this out there, but I keep hearing the reports that Vista is just a knock-off of Apple’s OSX.
Then you’ve got John C. Dvorak saying that Apple’s eventual plan is to drop OSX and move completely to Windows OS.
Could it be that Vista looks alot like OSX because the goal is to merge the learning curve for users? Aside from difference in platform, I’m wondering if Vista and OSX look alot alike under all that GUI stuff? I’m just saying…