Apple's Leopard to take on Windows Vista

How exactly does being able to see a white box with maybe some faint gray lines for the icon to a word document help the user tell that it's a word document, or indeed a document of any application at all? This icon preview idea seems to be one of the most lame and counter productive things I've heard about Visturd (formerly known as Longwait) yet. What's more surprising is that it's touted by the all knowing IT media (ie people too dumb to get a real IT job) as a feature that is superior to Tiger's icons which actually tell you something useful about the file in question by giving you some idea of what application will launch when you double click them.

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.

damn you you beat me to it.

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.

Apple keep up with MS? Whos's ahead right now? Do they really expect Apple to sit and wait for whateer junk MS peddles?

Oh and Airhead, er, I mean Aero. The same crappy interface now more confusing with transparency.

Lame attempt to create news when the headline pits Leopard vs. Vista, when the article compares Vista...err, I mean Visturd to Tiger. I suppose there has to be a baseline, but Visturd isn't even released.

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.

Well you work out the next 'revolutionary' step is and then tell ALL of us. Mac OS X works great and gets the JOB DONE. It would be cool if it had themes ...

Talant and genius abound at Microsoft as usual... they are so innovative!

Microsoft will first have to get it's operating system working and released. As of late there dates keep slipping. Apple on the other hand has a plan and although there may be a slight delay they have always been pretty much on time. Apple is inovating while Microsoft is copying. Apple has nothing to worry about. Microsoft has everything to worry about. Especially security and compatability. We already know the security record for XP,non existant.

"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."

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.

"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."

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.

will Leopard be better than Vista, Microsoft will probably take another 3-4 years to release their next gen OS after that, MacOSX will tweak their system at least once or twice during that time. Not only is Apple innovative, they also get their work done a lot faster.