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05/30/2003, 12:50pm, EDT

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MS Watch: Panther vs. Longhorn: The Rematch

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Microsoft Watch has posted 'Panther vs. Longhorn: The Rematch,' 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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114240 05/30, 12:59pm, EDT 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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114241 05/30, 1:02pm, EDT I'll give you a break...
a break in your nose... and leg...

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114242 05/30, 1:04pm, EDT 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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114243 05/30, 1:05pm, EDT 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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114244 05/30, 1:06pm, EDT 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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114245 05/30, 1:07pm, EDT 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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114246 05/30, 1:37pm, EDT Who
Who employes those MS Evangelists?
Fact that they copied from the term Mac Evangelists shows their mentality.

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114247 05/30, 1:43pm, EDT 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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114248 05/30, 1:49pm, EDT 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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114249 05/30, 1:52pm, EDT 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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