Posted on 04/25/2005 8:18:50 AM PDT by r5boston
It's Steve Jobs's plan to make this the Week of the Tiger. But Bill Gates and his minions at Microsoft are crying bull—specifically, a Longhorn steer. Despite the zoological bent, this dust-up is not about animals, but operating systems; Apple and Microsoft just happen to have named each of their major system upgrades after beasts of the realm. This Monday, Bill shows off the future of Windows, a.k.a. Longhorn, at a developers' conference. The oohs and aahs may be tempered by the fact that the hundreds of millions of Windows users won't get their hands on it until holiday season, 2006. (Unless it's even later.) On Friday, Jobs proudly presents the latest Macintosh OS X upgrade, named after that big striped cat that he always seems to have by the tail. When can the 25 million Mac users get their hands on Tiger? This year. This month. That day. Growwwl.
That's a big point for Apple in the latest matchup in high tech's equivalent to the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Both companies seem to understand what's really necessary and really cool for the next stop in desktop computing: support for the powerful new generation of 64-bit chips that are coming online; search capabilities built in, so you can mine your own documents as smoothly as Google scans the Web; a suite of persistent, constantly updated tiny applications that keep track of stuff like weather and stock quotes. A way to take advantage of the hot RSS technology that lets you "subscribe" to Web sites instead of visiting them every day or two. And a sleek appearance that relegates the traditional file-and-folder metaphor to the antique shop. Both new systems go a long ways toward making that big step.
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Is that a comment on the futility of such an effort, or is it an ill-informed attack on the statement itself?
Take it however you'd like (since you are gonna believe what you want, anyway). I'm just a happy Mac user who (over the years) has seen the worst attacks coming from the side of the PC gang. Like I've always said, PC users tend to be cranky...
Cheers, CC :)
Will the new mac mini have it to coincide with Tiger's release?
I thoroughly agree with you on which side most of the attacks are coming from. I'd like Mac users to take the high road, though, since (just between you and me) we have chosen the superior format.
excellent question.
They all have good and bad points, none are superior to each other, just different.
Yes, the upper 4%. ;-)
I cruise the PC threads because I use one at work. I go home to a Mac, however, and I try very hard to stay informed on both. When Longhorn comes out, I will be very interested in its new features.
This week, though, it's Tiger. All Tiger, all the time.
Because some people take their OS preference into the political arena.
Yeah, that's what I need my clients screaming for, another new operating system. I just got everyone into '.Net' and now this? Thankfully, it'll be at least a year, maybe more, before the "stable" release.
I'm getting too old for this. =)
Understood. My wife uses Mac for graphics production. I use this Dell for organizing our client lists, billing and Freepin' :o)
I am not sure about mac mini, but there are rummors of possible updates to iMac G5, and other models this week, possibly on Tuesday.
Odd that I've never seen a thread that started out bashing Apple. Occasionally someone will post a reference to theoretical security flaws in Macs or in Linux, but most threads like this start out bashing MS.
> Instead the next round of battles will be about what the Internet is really good for.
And how to search it. LOC...Widener...every library is going to be digitized and online. Who's going to be first with NL search capability?
So, they don't realize that it is just an operating system, not a way of life (or is it?)
What cracks me up is how excited Linux users get when the market share goes up a tiny percent ... why? None of them own stock in it ... what's the excitement for?
Most? That's putting it mildly ... usually it's right in the headline.
I think that's coming out in 10.4.1, when they address the security issue of pigs flying outta my butt.
/general goofiness
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