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.
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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.