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MS Watch: Panther vs. Longhorn: The Rematch

updated 12:50 pm EDT, Fri May 30, 2003

 
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Microsoft Watch has posted ',' which attempts to clear some of the confusion generated by the first article: " Specifically, some readers took issue with what they described as an apples-and-oranges comparison between the Panther version of Mac OS X (a k a Version 10.3 and due to reach developers in June and end users this fall) and the Longhorn upgrade to Windows (which won't ship until 2005). But that's precisely the point: If Apple sticks to a yearly cycle of product updates between now and 2005, it will be going on Mac OS X 10.5 by the time Longhorn delivers GUI enhancements and other features designed to take on Mac OS X 10.2. Even if Redmond comes through with all of the capabilities it's predicting, it will still be choking on dust kicked up by an additional couple of Mac OS X revs."


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    Gimme a break

    I work with MS evangelists (yes, that's what they're called) on a daily basis. I can tell you this: Apple is not even on MS' competitive radar. Not even a fraction of concern. That said, Longhorn is NOT designed to "take on" OSX -- OSX is a non-issue, no threat at all. MS is focusing on preventing Linux getting to the desktop successfully; it couldn't care less about what Apple is doing with OSX.

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    I'll give you a break...

    a break in your nose... and leg...

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    Raday, schmadar

    "Apple is not even on MS' competitive radar."

    Good; by the time MS realises that Apple's beaten them to a bloody pulp, it'll be too late.

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    Linux

    I could be wrong. but i thought i was running BSD 4.4 on my 10.2 machine.

    BSD and Linux are one of the same!

    osx is the only sucessfull linex
    in the mainstream way

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    The state of OS-X...

    ...is still so sluggish on my Ti 400 that I personally consider it late beta...

    ...and I thought Shchiller was quoted as saying the 'cycle' was 1-1/2 to 2 years 'as in the past' - so debatably we will have paid twice for beta OSware...? Even at this date I am ACTUALLY debating heading back to OS-9 because it is so much faster & everything works...

    XP has been remarkably trouble free for me...

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    FACT!

    microsoft steals from apple.

    apple may not be on their radar, but apple must be in headlites since microsoft always seem to come out with a microsoft version of apple ideas soon after apple.

    bah. go back to hanging out with people that take pride in calling themselves microsoft employees.

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    Who

    Who employes those MS Evangelists?
    Fact that they copied from the term Mac Evangelists shows their mentality.

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    I guess it's true

    Well, this string of posts just goes to prove what the letters in the article and the first post seem to imply. A disturbing number of Mac users (not most, not all, just a lot) are outrageously insecure and oversensitive about our platform.

    - Lifetime Mac user

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    BSD & Linux NOT the same

    BSD & Linux are both Unix variants, yes. But they are not the same kernal. BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) was created at Berkeley in the 70's. Linus Torvalds created Linux at the University of Helsinki in the early 90's.

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    re: I guess it's true

    REAL lifetime Mac users are touchy after a lifetime of watch MS exploit ideas born on the Mac, and make very few contributions of their own, troll.

    -REAL lifetime Mac User

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