“I praise Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system, and I also curse it,” Julio Ojeda-Zapata reports for The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
“Vista certainly is pretty. PC users long used to the dowdy Windows XP will do a double take at Vista’s translucent images and groovy 3D effects. Vista also is crammed with powerful, useful new features, like lightning-fast file searching, photo organizing and movie-DVD burning,” Ojeda-Zapata reports.
“But after waiting five years — as in half a decade — for this thing, I think I should get something revolutionary, a PC operating system so astonishing it makes the competition look laughably primitive. The almighty Microsoft made this, right? So Vista — being released to consumers Tuesday — has to be jaw-droppingly superior, right? Well, it’s not. Vista hardly rocked my world during weeks of testing. It’s a fine Windows upgrade, but it’s also a shameless rip-off (and not quite the equal) of another major operating system, Apple Computer’s Mac OS X,” Ojeda-Zapata reports.
Ojeda-Zapata asks, “That begs the question: Why not just use OS X?”
“Those upgrading from XP likely will have to get a new computer anyway because Vista doesn’t work properly on most older PCs. So, instead of purchasing a Windows PC, they could — and typically should — get an Apple Macintosh computer running OS X,” Ojeda-Zapata reports. “Apple is about to release an OS X upgrade, nicknamed ‘Leopard,’ that will make Vista look archaic… It’s also important to note that Apple has offered OS X upgrades at roughly yearly intervals during the half-decade that Microsoft has labored on Vista. Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rockin’ Rod” for the heads up.]
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Looks like I’ll be needing to use Vista to order some more chairs online…
Hear,hear! Waste half a decade just to look like a mac? Just get a Mac!
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And yaay, he looked on what he had created, and he called it . . . subpar.
“Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much.
He should’ve wrote:
Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not at all – or does a cheap, copy engine account for anything?”
I was once an engine.
“Zune Tang, paging Zune Tang, please come to the white courtesy phone…”
Colts 31, Bears 17
You heard it here first.
You know, this reminds me of that bit I did on Conan with all those Star Wars nerds. You know de one, where I got Spock to come out at the end and give them all de finger.
Yeh-heh-hehesssssssss . . .
Except in this case, he\’d be giving de finger to all the pathetic losers who buy Vista.
Hey, I keed. I keed because they\’re lame.
The Truth shall set you Free!
first post – from the desert
Bears 27
Colts 21
Ballmer is always wrong!
I agree with the article 100%, but does anyone notice the similarity to what MDN has written 100 times before? When the mainstream press starts sounding like MDN, you have to realize that civilization as we’ve known it is over.
“Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much.
He should’ve wrote:
Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not at all – or does a cheap, copy engine account for anything?”
How about, “He should have written?”
Word police.
I’ve said it before. Vista supports Zune. OS X does not.
The two OS’s are otherwise virtually equal.
Zune tips the scales.
Soon everyone will realize this.
Welcome to my social.
Microsoft is beholden to giant corporations and many other tentacles they have deployed. They CAN’T innovate much without completely BREAKING the connection they have with a huge community of users, developers and more importantly sales organizations. Apple has more flexibility here but truthfully Apple faced similar challenges in the past and powered right through them. From the 68000 series chips to PPC to intel, from OS 9 to OS X, and several other changes less visible or at least less well known. It’s called Creative Destruction and nobody does it better than Steve Jobs.
well worth reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
No more yearly upgrades of OS X for Apple. It seems they are getting onto an every two year cycle.
10.5 -> Spring 2007
10.6 (Lion?) -> Spring 2009(?)
OS 11(?) -> Spring 2011 (?)
OS 11 in 2011? That would be nice.
“But our OS goes to 11.”
Hey, get this quote to advertising – PRONTO!
Windows™ Vista®: … a PC operating system so astonishing it makes the competition look laughably primitive. – Julio Ojeda-Zapata, The St. Paul Pioneer Press
He’s got that right!
Cubert,
They already used Lion…it was one of the earliest iterations of OS X back in 2001…pre-jaguar…
but I suppose they could bring it back since it did not get much play at the time.
Apple also announced a while back that they would no longer be so MacWorld dependent in terms of OS updates and were intentionally slowing down the update schedule (many people found the pace a bit too breathless). You may be right however about the timing of OS XI
@ Zune Tang
They made the Zune in brown for a reason…big piece of poo that looks great flushed down a toilet…
Welcome to my morning ritual…
I have read countless articles that claim Vista is not really too great. Many compare it to OS X and point out that Vista is much the lesser of the two. I have not found a single article so far that compares Vista to OS X and says Vista is much better, somewhat better or even almost as good as OS X. At best, they just say that Vista is better than XP. wow (lower case intended).
I meant, Welcome to my hershey squirt…
anyone seen any line-up of windows-vista-fans eagerly waiting for the big event tomorrow – camping out in front of the stores???
@ Joe Blow
“I have not found a single article so far that compares Vista to OS X and says Vista is much better, somewhat better or even almost as good as OS X.”
That’s because Dvorak hasn’t gotten around to it yet. He’s too busy buying Hawaiian shirts online…
pr…. just to set the record straight… from Wikipedia:
“Mac OS X versions are named after big cats. Prior to its release, version 10.0 was code named “Cheetah” internally at Apple, and version 10.1 was code named internally as “Puma”. After the immense buzz surrounding version 10.2, codenamed “Jaguar”, Apple’s product marketing began openly using the code name to promote the operating system. 10.3 was similarly marketed as “Panther”. Version 10.4 is marketed as “Tiger”. “Leopard” has been announced as the name for the next release of the operating system, version 10.5. It could be noted that while “Panther”, “Tiger” and “Leopard” are registered as trademarks of Apple, “Cheetah”, “Puma” and “Jaguar” have never been registered. Apple has also registered “Lynx” and “Cougar” as trademarks.[18]
Looks like Lion is still available.
mw:clearly