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Tiger's Out This Week. No Bull.
Newsweek ^ | 04/25/2006 | Steven Levy

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: apple; longhorn; lowqualitycrap; mcw; microsoft; poisoningthewell; tiger
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To: Liberty Valance
My wife uses Mac for graphics production.

Yeah, that's one area a Mac has a great advantage.  At least it did when I used to use them on a daily basis, about 10 years ago.  Are they still as good?

41 posted on 04/25/2005 9:47:35 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: SlowBoat407; beezdotcom

LOL!


42 posted on 04/25/2005 9:49:36 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (If you must filibuster, let the Constitution do the talkin')
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To: softwarecreator
Yeah, that's one area a Mac has a great advantage. At least it did when I used to use them on a daily basis, about 10 years ago. Are they still as good?

Shucks. Macs are even better than they were 10 years ago!

Seriously, I still think they're superior for graphics/video work.

43 posted on 04/25/2005 9:50:02 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (I'm not nearklym drunk enough tom deal with it. - FReeper Wormwood, 4/18/05)
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To: SlowBoat407
when they address the security issue of pigs flying outta my butt

Yeah, that's why I stopped using them ... once they get the patch working, I may go back.

44 posted on 04/25/2005 9:50:11 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: SlowBoat407
Macs are even better than they were 10 years ago

I would hope so!  =)

45 posted on 04/25/2005 9:51:28 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: softwarecreator

In this thread you have to read all the way to the third sentence before you get to the MS bashing. Apple releases Tiger and MS releases XP64. Which is a tweak and which is the future?

OH yes, the upgrade to XP64 is free.


46 posted on 04/25/2005 9:51:41 AM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: softwarecreator

"Are they still as good?" Yes! I can't pry my wife away from her new G5. Amazing machine for publishing our real estate magazine.


47 posted on 04/25/2005 9:52:18 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (If you must filibuster, let the Constitution do the talkin')
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To: Joe Bonforte

Oh yeah. Now that I think about it I always search out mediocrity in products.


48 posted on 04/25/2005 9:53:24 AM PDT by elmer fudd
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To: Liberty Valance
Yes! I can't pry my wife away from her new G5.

I have neighbors who have a printing business, use a Mac and swear by it.  I do software development and never got into the graphics area too deeply.  I have never had a client ask about programming on a Mac, but then, I don't list Apple as one of the environments I work in.

49 posted on 04/25/2005 10:18:57 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: softwarecreator

It's all about the philosophy of software development that underlies Linux and free/open source software in general - ie, that the source code for software should be freely available to all. Any gain for Linux is a gain for the entire movement.

Basically, they're commies =)


50 posted on 04/25/2005 10:38:45 AM PDT by Fatalist
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To: Fatalist
Any gain for Linux is a gain for the entire movement.

So, it's like Islam?

P.S. to Linux people: ... JUST KIDDING!

51 posted on 04/25/2005 12:28:15 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Bush2000; antiRepublicrat; Action-America; eno_; N3WBI3; zeugma; TechJunkYard; ShorelineMike; ...
Tiger Article in Newsweek... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

52 posted on 04/25/2005 6:01:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: CheneyChick

Oh puhleeeeeeeeze

I thought 'puhleeeeeeeeze' just had eight e's in it :)


53 posted on 04/25/2005 6:06:45 PM PDT by bwteim
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To: js1138
... but most threads like this start out bashing MS.

This is perhaps the most bizarre and unsuported statement I have seen on FR this month. And I've seen a lot of 'em.

As a matter of fact, these threads nearly always start out discussing a new or improved feature of a Mac with hardly a reference to the other side of the street, and then some distressed and anxious PC user barges into the discussion with the tired canard that Mac users are "snooty" or "condescending", or are somehow "bashing" Microsoft.

Nonsense. The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world.

That's what REALLY scratches the PC users irritability bone; there is nothing worse than being ignored.

54 posted on 04/25/2005 6:13:25 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
...anxious PC user barges into the discussion with the tired canard that Mac users are "snooty" or "condescending", or are somehow "bashing" Microsoft.

Don't forget the classic "I'd buy a Mac, but I'm not Gay" comment.

55 posted on 04/25/2005 6:20:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: John Valentine; js1138
As a matter of fact, these threads nearly always start out discussing a new or improved feature of a Mac with hardly a reference to the other side of the street...

Did you actually read this thread? Perhaps you'd care to revise your in light of the first real comment here, post #5. For crying out loud, the first post out of the gate was a MacMoonie slamming on someone else.

56 posted on 04/25/2005 6:49:30 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: John Valentine

Interesting, considering the article that started the thread ignored XP64 and bashed Windows for not having anything new.


57 posted on 04/25/2005 7:00:09 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: general_re

Actually, general_re, I didn't see post #5 as a "MacMoonie" slamming someone else as much as making an arguable statement.

Where was the slam in the comment "hundreds of thousands of mac users showing off the future of Windows"?

You may not agree, but most unbiased technology people will agree that there are at least some features of the new Mac OS that will not be available until some future release of Windows (Searchlight, for one single example)

Granted, it can be argued there are features in XP that are unavailable in OS X, and vice versa, but if there is at least one factor that is true in post #5, then the person who made it at least had a leg to stand on.


58 posted on 04/25/2005 7:03:09 PM PDT by rlmorel
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To: js1138

Well, I would say that is more an issue of Stephen Levy being a biased technology reporter, and the quality of Newsweek in general (which in my opinion, is rather low from an informational perspective)

As for ignoring XP64, is XP64 considered a consumer OS, or is it more along the lines of a server or specialized OS? That is, are there Dells and HP's being sold to general consumers with XP64 on it by default and without the customer making a choice? I would guess not, but I might be ignorant on that point.

As for Windows not having anything new, that is a relative complaint. Certainly XP does not anything as "new" as OS X later this week, which isn't even officially out yet, so...who is newer as of the last update on the part of each OS? A semantical difference, I agree.


59 posted on 04/25/2005 7:14:44 PM PDT by rlmorel
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To: js1138
Interesting, considering the article that started the thread ignored XP64 and bashed Windows for not having anything new.

I wasn't referring to the article. That wasn't written by a Freeper - only posted by one. It is what it is, but let's face it, it came from MSNBC. It wasn't some fringe opinion.

Just to be very clear, I was specifically referring to alleged "bashing" by comment posters.

60 posted on 04/25/2005 7:16:12 PM PDT by John Valentine
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