We’re looking for nice imagery of a “Tiger” gnawing, chewing, swallowing, mauling, or otherwise disemboweling a “Longhorn” steer (for obvious reasons). Photos, illustrations, whatever – hey, you Mac guys and gals are supposed to be “creative” and “artistic,” so how ’bout sending us something we can use to illustrate future Mac OS X vs. Windows Longhorn articles?*
It’ll take awhile before such articles will appear – it seems Microsoft isn’t quite ready 
, so we have plenty of time. Longhorn is due “sometime in 2006, maybe,” while Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is due in “the first half of 2005.” With the image illustrating this article, we have a pretty weak starting point – someone’s got to have better.
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The way features are being lopped off in order to insure that Longhorn meets its shipping date, it will probably be repulsively scrawny to our Tiger. In the movie ICE AGE, Sid the sloth was “borrowing” sabretooth tiger Diego to fool some other predators into thinking he was already dead — then it looked as if Diego wasn’t going to let him go. Wooly mammoth Manfred resolved the situation by telling Diego, “you don’t know where that’s been.”
Does anyone know the next cat? We’ll probably see that one before longhorn as well.
“…….Does anyone know the next cat. We’ll probably see that one before longhorn as well……..”
hmmmmm good question….
My vote would be for “Cheetah”….
Supposedily, the fastest cat on the planet !
I believe apple has stated that they are done with the yearly updates after tiger 🙁
I believe Cheetah was 10.1 and Puma was 10.0. Then Jaguar, Panther and Tiger, So It would be more like Lion, king of the Jungle. After that, you need a new theme.
Even if Apple waits 18 months to release “lion” or whatever, it will still probably beat Loooooooooonghorn^_^
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I was thinking the same thing about Tiger being on its way out before we see Longhorn, to be replaced by… Ocelot, maybe? Clouded Leopard? Kodkod?
A Tiger is more powerful and bigger than a lion so I doubt they will go with mac os lion. It sounds crap. Maybe Leopard or Cougar, not as tough as a tiger but sound cool.
I don’t think that Apple will publicize the next cat until they are ready to preview it. Doing so now will imply that the current/upcoming OS is incomplete. But, according to…
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1205653,00.asp
“According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple registered four new trademarks in early July: Cougar, Lynx, Leopard and Tiger. All four were filed under the “computer operating system software” category.”
What you should have is a collage of images. Longhorn as first described (big, healthy), and then Longhorn pictures as features are removed (looking less and less healthy), and then a final picture of Longhorn and Tiger with a caption of the Tiger saying “Eh, it would cause me indigestion” or something.
Ha! “King of the Jungle.” I wonder who actually coined that appellation because lions don’t live in jungles. Also, they wouldn’t stand a chance against those living bulldozers, elephants.
Leopards and Panthers are very similar, Cougars and Lynx are way too small after Tiger
They will probably change to new naming startegies
I suppose Kitten,Puss Puss and Kitty are off the list for sure
oh but wait, what about extinct cats like Saber Tooth?
Buffy, Cheetah was 10.0 and Puma was 10.1.
They should drop the cat names and name the new OS’ after great actors of our times…like Chuck Norris and Jeff Fahey
Sent my entry…
“Longhorn is due ‘sometime in 2006, maybe,’ “
Actually Balmer is on the record stating that Longhorn will ship by 31 December 2006 NO MATTER WHAT. Thus they started cutting and/or unbundling “features” (such as the new file structure that many said was a critical new feature of Longhorn) in order to get it out the door by 31 December 2006. I expect Microsoft will make that date with public betas starting in late 2005 or early 2006.
Will Apple ship a version after Tiger that arrives before Longhorn? I would like to think so, but I doubt it. I expect Tiger to ship in late June. this puts the cycle for 10.4 Tiger at about 19-20 months. Another 19 months would put it at MacWorld SF in 2007. I would expect the 10.5 version of OS X to be announced then as shipping “within days” making it another 19-20 month cycle. Thus I would expect OS X 10.5 (whatever it is called) to ship in January 2007.
I think that by the time Longhorn gets here it will surely be suffering from “mad cow disease” and should therefore be banned from consumption.
More appropriate if 10.4 was named “Coyote”, after all, Longhorn will be dead meat.
By the time longhorn ships, Apple will have computers that plug straight into the brain and we will see the screen via head mounted glasses…
On another note, imagine if they remade Back To The Future 2 and as Marty Mcfly Jr walked past a computer store, they had computers running Early Betas of Longhorn.
That image will be nice for us Java 5.0 developers and users (5.0 was codenamed Tiger)
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i’m casting my vote for liger as the next codename. i just saw napoleon dynamite. sweet flick.
I think that the next operating system should be a Liger! It’s pretty much my favorite animal. (Thanks Napolean)
How about a cartoon of a Tiger smelling sweet, and a Longhorn smelling like it always does . . . like *&#$ !
Proud Apple User since 1978
OS X Public Beta = Kodiak
10.0 = Cheetah
10.1 = Puma
10.2 = Jaguar
10.3 = Panther
10.4 = Tiger
10.5 = Rum Tum Tugger
=:~)