Go Apple! Vista's becoming heavier, buggy and awful, being outsold by XP still. And Leopard is packing in more functionality but making the core stronger on an already rock solid foundation. The fact that they cared enough to take this step shows their attention to detail. Its like anyone can write a web page, but when you make it XHTML valid, it just makes you that much better.
Vista : Heavier? The last time I remembered, an OS doesn't way a thing. Maybe the DVD disc, but it's pretty light.
Buggy? Uh, I think somebody has been reading MacRumors too long. There's no bugs, except with Apple's software like iTunes and Quicktime problems. Which they had plenty of time to fix.
Awful? Can you emphasize?
People are still wanting XP, because there's already many things that work with it, and because of stupid rumors and false info. coming from guys like you.
If you'd actually tried Vista on a great machine (my Sony Vaio), you'd be surprised how great it works.
And this is coming from a guy that uses Macs. For real.
I appreciate the constructive criticism. I've been a Windows user since 95 and I'm also a computer technician and MSCE certified at that. So I know my Microsoft stuff. First hand. I used Vista for a few months and just incredibly disappointed. Its just seems like XP with alot more RAM eating effects stacked on. And buggy, not new bugs. Just not fixing old bugs! Why is the heart still the registry? Adding (the very annoying) UAC which completely breaks workflow so you can say "OK" to everything is not a security fix. Its just Not. I'm always rooting for Windows to clean up their act and make something I can be proud of them for, it just hasn't happened it. Perhaps Windows 7 will be what they promised Vista would have been.Meanwhile, Apple saw OS9 was crap so they ripped it all up and made OSX with a beautiful UNIX core and overlaid the most gorgeous front end seen in any OS to date. And cleaner and less confusing than Vista. I now use a 4 year old PowerBook G4 running the latest version of Tiger with no sweat and no issues. Find me a 4 year old PC laptop that can run vista with all the "effects" turned on and see how good it runs over a few years.So as a complete professional who has used both extensively, as of right now, Apple is kicking Microsoft's @$$ in the OS department, sorry. Years ago I would have said the opposite, and maybe years from now I'll back up Microsoft again, but come on. Their attempts as of late are pathetic. Has nothing to do with the shiny apple and their smart marketing.
Before I begin let me just say that the only time I've ever touched a machine running Vista was at a store....
Anyway, where do I begin? Sure, Apple have had a while to get iTunes and QuickTime running beautifully on Vista but I seem to recall something major Apple has done in the last 18 months. Microsoft Office 2004 is still only PPC and Office 2008 has been pushed now to 2008 from late this year. It's actually really annoying. Surely you'd think with so much time they could have pulled off an Office 2007 for Mac OS X? Thank god for NeoOffice.
And Vista still must have bugs. That one computer I played with that had Vista on it was unable to do Flip3D at all and it was a pretty powerful machine. Personally I have to agree with freemikekelly.org on this one. I was surfing the net the other day and came across the IE blog. After scanning down I saw a post that preached the importance of web standards, none of which IE supports right now. Throw in the fact that my mates, who I know have at least an above average knowledge of computers, have had XP do something to them that's not particularly nice and then I'd have to say that I am indeed a Mac person. Never has Mac OS X crashed, froze, or just gone out to lunch on me without myself doing something stupid like saving thousands of pictures to the desktop all at once or using unsupported software.
Above all what do I hate most about Windows? It's huge ****ing dependance on drivers!
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Go Apple! Vista's becoming heavier, buggy and awful, being outsold by XP still. And Leopard is packing in more functionality but making the core stronger on an already rock solid foundation. The fact that they cared enough to take this step shows their attention to detail. Its like anyone can write a web page, but when you make it XHTML valid, it just makes you that much better.
Vista : Heavier? The last time I remembered, an OS doesn't way a thing. Maybe the DVD disc, but it's pretty light.
Buggy? Uh, I think somebody has been reading MacRumors too long. There's no bugs, except with Apple's software like iTunes and Quicktime problems. Which they had plenty of time to fix.
Awful? Can you emphasize?
People are still wanting XP, because there's already many things that work with it, and because of stupid rumors and false info. coming from guys like you.
If you'd actually tried Vista on a great machine (my Sony Vaio), you'd be surprised how great it works.
And this is coming from a guy that uses Macs. For real.
I appreciate the constructive criticism. I've been a Windows user since 95 and I'm also a computer technician and MSCE certified at that. So I know my Microsoft stuff. First hand. I used Vista for a few months and just incredibly disappointed. Its just seems like XP with alot more RAM eating effects stacked on. And buggy, not new bugs. Just not fixing old bugs! Why is the heart still the registry? Adding (the very annoying) UAC which completely breaks workflow so you can say "OK" to everything is not a security fix. Its just Not. I'm always rooting for Windows to clean up their act and make something I can be proud of them for, it just hasn't happened it. Perhaps Windows 7 will be what they promised Vista would have been.Meanwhile, Apple saw OS9 was crap so they ripped it all up and made OSX with a beautiful UNIX core and overlaid the most gorgeous front end seen in any OS to date. And cleaner and less confusing than Vista. I now use a 4 year old PowerBook G4 running the latest version of Tiger with no sweat and no issues. Find me a 4 year old PC laptop that can run vista with all the "effects" turned on and see how good it runs over a few years.So as a complete professional who has used both extensively, as of right now, Apple is kicking Microsoft's @$$ in the OS department, sorry. Years ago I would have said the opposite, and maybe years from now I'll back up Microsoft again, but come on. Their attempts as of late are pathetic. Has nothing to do with the shiny apple and their smart marketing.
To Michael:
Before I begin let me just say that the only time I've ever touched a machine running Vista was at a store....
Anyway, where do I begin? Sure, Apple have had a while to get iTunes and QuickTime running beautifully on Vista but I seem to recall something major Apple has done in the last 18 months. Microsoft Office 2004 is still only PPC and Office 2008 has been pushed now to 2008 from late this year. It's actually really annoying. Surely you'd think with so much time they could have pulled off an Office 2007 for Mac OS X? Thank god for NeoOffice.
And Vista still must have bugs. That one computer I played with that had Vista on it was unable to do Flip3D at all and it was a pretty powerful machine. Personally I have to agree with freemikekelly.org on this one. I was surfing the net the other day and came across the IE blog. After scanning down I saw a post that preached the importance of web standards, none of which IE supports right now. Throw in the fact that my mates, who I know have at least an above average knowledge of computers, have had XP do something to them that's not particularly nice and then I'd have to say that I am indeed a Mac person. Never has Mac OS X crashed, froze, or just gone out to lunch on me without myself doing something stupid like saving thousands of pictures to the desktop all at once or using unsupported software.
Above all what do I hate most about Windows? It's huge ****ing dependance on drivers!