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08/03/2005, 3:55pm, EDT
Wednesday, August 3rd
Apple's Leopard to take on Windows Vista
Despite Apple's marketshare increase of 37 percent in the past year, the company will have to add new features and improvements to maintain its current growth rate and compete with Windows Vista, according to a report by eWEEK. Apple's next version of Mac OS X, "Leopard," and Microsoft Windows "Vista" will both ship in late 2006. Vista has many features similar to those found in Mac OS X Tiger, such as the user interface dubbed "Aero" versus Apple's "Aqua". Vista's search icon reportedly looks almost identical to Apple's "Spotlight" icon, the only difference being that the magnifying glass is turned around.
The user interface of Vista boasts many features that have been considered to be superior to Tiger's, such as document previews on file icons which update as files change and improved file management. Vista's security has also been improved by implementing a "containment area" for internet explorer which will attempt to prevent viruses and worms from infecting the system.
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Keep up the hard work MS. We all know it takes serious effort to come up with this level of crap. It just doesn't happen by accident.
so the anal-ists are saying visturd will be superior to tiger, but wait, tiger won't be the current mac os then, leopard will be. So we've nothing to worry about eh?
wasn't cairo supposed to have the full database file system, a feature microsoft has been talking about since 1995?!
there doesn't seem to be anything revolutionary about visturd yet, about as evolutionary as each of the os x dot releases have been.
Oh and Airhead, er, I mean Aero. The same crappy interface now more confusing with transparency.
And, you're right -- nothing revolutionary here. At least OS X was new compared to OS 9. If Apple pulled a MicroShaft we'd just be using OS 9 with some slapped on enhancements and we'd still be fighting extension conflicts (only we'd be able to restart faster with a dual G5).
To both Apple and MS: I want to see a real revolution. Heck, BeOS was revolutionary. NeXT was revolutionary. Where's the next step (not NeXTSTEP)?
Are Apple and MS just dumbing down the OS so stupid users don't have to try to understand a new way of doing things, even though that new way might be easier and faster?
Now were stuck, according to Steve Jobs, with OS X for 15 years (since its introduction). Does that mean that no revolutionary changes will occur for 15 years for OS X users? Does that also mean that MS can sit on its Visturd OS for 15 years before it releases service pack 2?
Geez. Where's Jean-Louis when you want him?
Oh, well. Gotta go.
If you use the column view in the Finder you get a good sized preview of many file types. These are updated whenever the file is updated. IMHO this is much more useful than having the file's icon be an unreadably tiny preview.
Just curious, who is considering anything superior about Vista? Everything I've read and heard, even (and especially) from Windows fanatics, has not been positive at all.