It's not really that much of a surprise, is it? I mean, Their market share is up, so sales of the OS will be up. Of course, it helps that the users don't have to buy a whole new computer just to make it run.
Yes, and I am sure that if Apple wanted, they could make a feature free version of Leopard that could run on ancient equipment, but seriously, what is the point? That is what Jaguar, or Tiger is for. Microsoft's point in making it possible for the OS to run on old PCs is that they can say "Hey, look, it runs on anything!" and impress people like you, but if the features are the same as the previous operating system, and it takes your 386 30 minutes to boot up & is still incapable of being a viable, functioning solution to your work / play it is in fact, outside of geek cred - pointless. The whole allure of Vista was the bells & whistles, the eye candy. It's like thinking your getting a Mercedes Benz, and you end up with Chrysler (same company now) The truth is, you need a pretty up to date system to run Vista full on. The next version of what ever MS decides to call their OS will be rife with ideas completely lifted from Leopard, yet not implemented as well. This makes MS fans upset, but it is the 100% truth since Windows 3.1. Those of you who consistently want to point to market share of the OSes, look deeper into it. Then, look at the market share trends over the last 5 years, and look at the stock prices of all your favorite computer & software companies and compare it to Apple. You are making comments here that expose you as someone who is blindly, and foolishly defending a company they obviously do not know anything about, and belittling another company which they also know nothing about. It is like a parade of stubborn ignorance.
I don't know how you thought we'd respond to what you obviously thought was beautiful prose, but frankly, the point of windows running on just about anything is that unlike Mac OS, you aren't technically locked into their own hardware (osx86, blah blah blah), and so Microsoft has nothing to gain by requiring you to upgrade your computer, but could easily lose a sale if it did.
FYI, the next version of windows has been in development for some time now, because it's effectively dumping the legacy code that makes windows work with everything and on everything. So, you can go spew your grade school level propaganda elsewhere.
actually mercedes and chrysler are not the same company now. they were from 1998 to mid 2007 then mercedes put chrysler/dodge/jeep on the open market, cerberus investment group bought them and finallized the purchase a few months ago.
and oh yeah i agree with john (at least mostly) microsoft "7" is supposed to be completly new but by the time it comes out i think they'll make it run on some older stuff, just maybe not as old as they've previously done. (like maybe computers from 2 years before the release of the os will be able to run it but not much past that 2 year mark, but really who knows, and why do we care so much?
I just want to point out one thing. Apple has 870 million shares outstanding, Microsoft over 9 Billion, or roughly 10 times the number of shares in the wild. When Apple stock approaches $350 a share (what Microsoft would be after a reverse 10 to 1 split to bring parity) Microsoft will have something to worry about. Until then just remember Microsoft is primarily a software company that has to sell to the lowest common demonitator, and Apple is a hardware company that markets a unix OS to sell its hardware. If you want to compare companies compare Apple to Dell, at least they are in the same core business.
it's amazing how good leopard is. it has so far been 100% capable of crashing every nikon software, lightroom, capture1 and even more other applications.
it's amazing how leopard hates 3rd party applications like iphone.
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It's not really that much of a surprise, is it? I mean, Their market share is up, so sales of the OS will be up. Of course, it helps that the users don't have to buy a whole new computer just to make it run.
Unless you have a G3.
Actually - Leopard doesn't run on any of my Macs (although ironically, with the Brazil patch, I can kinda make it run on my PCs...).
Vista, on the other hand, runs on all my PCs including two four-year old Shuttles.
If your running a G3 why bother? Get a Mac Mini at that point.
Jeff,
Do you have any PCs that are six years or older that you've installed Vista on? How are they holding up?
Yes, and I am sure that if Apple wanted, they could make a feature free version of Leopard that could run on ancient equipment, but seriously, what is the point? That is what Jaguar, or Tiger is for. Microsoft's point in making it possible for the OS to run on old PCs is that they can say "Hey, look, it runs on anything!" and impress people like you, but if the features are the same as the previous operating system, and it takes your 386 30 minutes to boot up & is still incapable of being a viable, functioning solution to your work / play it is in fact, outside of geek cred - pointless. The whole allure of Vista was the bells & whistles, the eye candy. It's like thinking your getting a Mercedes Benz, and you end up with Chrysler (same company now)
The truth is, you need a pretty up to date system to run Vista full on.
The next version of what ever MS decides to call their OS will be rife with ideas completely lifted from Leopard, yet not implemented as well. This makes MS fans upset, but it is the 100% truth since Windows 3.1. Those of you who consistently want to point to market share of the OSes, look deeper into it. Then, look at the market share trends over the last 5 years, and look at the stock prices of all your favorite computer & software companies and compare it to Apple. You are making comments here that expose you as someone who is blindly, and foolishly defending a company they obviously do not know anything about, and belittling another company which they also know nothing about.
It is like a parade of stubborn ignorance.
I don't know how you thought we'd respond to what you obviously thought was beautiful prose, but frankly, the point of windows running on just about anything is that unlike Mac OS, you aren't technically locked into their own hardware (osx86, blah blah blah), and so Microsoft has nothing to gain by requiring you to upgrade your computer, but could easily lose a sale if it did.
FYI, the next version of windows has been in development for some time now, because it's effectively dumping the legacy code that makes windows work with everything and on everything. So, you can go spew your grade school level propaganda elsewhere.
actually mercedes and chrysler are not the same company now. they were from 1998 to mid 2007 then mercedes put chrysler/dodge/jeep on the open market, cerberus investment group bought them and finallized the purchase a few months ago.
and oh yeah i agree with john (at least mostly) microsoft "7" is supposed to be completly new but by the time it comes out i think they'll make it run on some older stuff, just maybe not as old as they've previously done. (like maybe computers from 2 years before the release of the os will be able to run it but not much past that 2 year mark, but really who knows, and why do we care so much?
I just want to point out one thing. Apple has 870 million shares outstanding, Microsoft over 9 Billion, or roughly 10 times the number of shares in the wild. When Apple stock approaches $350 a share (what Microsoft would be after a reverse 10 to 1 split to bring parity) Microsoft will have something to worry about. Until then just remember Microsoft is primarily a software company that has to sell to the lowest common demonitator, and Apple is a hardware company that markets a unix OS to sell its hardware. If you want to compare companies compare Apple to Dell, at least they are in the same core business.
it's amazing how good leopard is. it has so far been 100% capable of crashing every nikon software, lightroom, capture1 and even more other applications.
it's amazing how leopard hates 3rd party applications like iphone.