“Well, as announced [yesterday] morning, Apple’s OS X Tiger will ship on the 29th and that’s the reason I’m in SF this week. I spent some time with Phil Schiller [on Monday] and got an in depth look at Tiger. I purposely held off writing anything until the vendor glow wore off a bit but this morning I’m still convinced that Tiger is a big deal and it just might be the the best OS on a PC I have ever seen for productivity use… The reason? Spotlight. Integrated search just works so much better at the OS level and when it’s integrated into everything. For the first time users aren’t constrained to or forced to learn the intricacies of a hierarchal file system. It doesn’t matter where on my disk the information is or even if its sitting in my email. Spotlight finds it and then lets me manipulate it,” Michael Gartenberg writes for JupiterResearch.
“There’s a lot more in Tiger, iChat2 runs rings around msn messenger for video chat and Dashboard is just plain cool. The real hit for me though is Spotlight and the integrated OS and application functions. Tiger is a real leap in OS functionality and Microsoft is going to have hard time to upstage Tiger with Longhorn,” Gartenberg writes.
“The real challenge that Apple has is to make sure people understand what they’ve done here. They need to turn up the volume on this several notches so that they don’t get lost in the checklist wars, i.e., we have search, they have search… There’s a real experiential difference here in what Apple’s offering and if you spend far too much time organizing your stuff or just can’t find it again, you need to take a close look at Tiger. What’s missing? Not much for me. I’d like to see RSS persistent so I can read and search offline and I wouldn’t mind seeing MSFT add Spotlight for Entourage. Otherwise, for the moment, this OS is nirvana for productivity,” Gartenberg writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One teensy, weensy, little point: Longhorn is vapor. Of course Longhorn is going to have a hard time upstaging Mac OS X Tiger — Longhorn doesn’t exist! It’s a reality vs. fantasy kinda thing. Tiger ships on April 29, 2005 (in sixteen days), quite unlike Longhorn’s constantly slipping, literally year(s) away ship date. The obvious fact we’re about to unleash reads like the joke that it is: Microsoft’s competitor to Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger is Windows XP.
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Yeh-heh-hesssss, MDN — Longhorn is indeed vapor. And as we all know, vapor usually smells. In this case, like dead cattle.
Or the stench emanating from Ballmer even on a relatively cool 60 degree day.
I purposely held off writing anything until the vendor glow wore off a bit but this morning I’m still convinced that Tiger is a big deal and it just might be the the best OS on a PC I have ever seen for productivity use (I’m still waiting for Apple get produce a 10 foot UI for media centric functions).
This guy must have gotten a special copy of Tiger because Mac OS X doesn’t run on a PC, except for that secret copy hidden deep into Cupertino’s vaults.
Oh, by de way . . .
I POOP ON LONGHORN!
Let the praise begin. I wonder if Apple is finally going to start to market their computers and OS now that Tiger is announced. It’s time for Apple to gain overall market share. I’m really sick of Microsoft.
PC just means Personal Computer, not any platform specific.
It really is crazy that Longhorn is even referred to at all, much less as often as it is. I say that Apple makes crap up too and next week announces that on the same day Longhorn ships they plan to ship OS X Lion, which will throw out the mouse in favor of a revolutionary headband set up and will do everything simply by you thinking it. Then as Longhorn nears reality Apple can push the date back a year or two for Lion but everyone will naturally compare Longhorn to this upcoming revolutionary OS. Then Apple can slowly drop features that do not exist, but by that time the damage will be done.
Longhorn is vaporware so far. Just because nobody seriously doubts that Microsoft will eventually release it doesn’t make it any more real.
I like that: one teeeensy weeensy little point…
MS has shown the GUI for Longhorn (which looks like MS Encarta, circa 1998–not bad) and is slavishly taking notes off the Apple website for ‘nifty, neato, innovations’
And something the journalists ALWAYS miss: Panther has Search already. MS still has the old school (slow) search. Panther has search built into every finder window already, it’s just Spotlight is way faster and searches waaaay more than just filename and metadata.
If XP had search like Panther, built into the OS, it would be an improvement.. as it is.. Longhorn isn’t going to fully materialize until about 2007.. at which point Mac users will say, “Huh? The party started ages ago…” And Bill Gates and Thurrott will stand proudly, hand in hand and say, “If you ignore the iPod Company, we’re pretty innovative”
Sorry it gets a little hot and heavy from there..
http://blogumentary.typepad.com/chuck/2005/04/once_you_go_mac.html
DudeMac:
Red the sentence right before that one, “I spent some time with Phil Schiller yesterday and got an in depth look at Tiger.”
The author met with Phil. It was on Phil’s Mac that he saw Tiger.
It is also not impossible to know someone with a developer version of Tiger.
You know, MDN made me realize something. In a way, MS has *already* won this OS round. Right, Longhorn isn’t even here, but people are comparing Tiger to Longhorn, NOT XP!!!! From Microsoft’s perspective, that’s just huge!!! Even Apple is playing into that game, with the whole “start your copiers” talk.
Apple needs to come out strong and compare Tiger to MS’s latest OS, XP, NOT Longhorn. Otherwise, they run the risk of having PC buyers saying “I can’t wait.”
They need to say “this is what we offer *today*, and this is what they offer *today*. By the time Longhorn comes out, Apple may have moved on to Lion, or whatever it will be called.
Longhorn has madcow
So… they’ve got a winner on their hands. Are they actually going to advertise it to the masses?
“Longhorn has madcow!”
Oh, LMAO, that’s good. Oh, Jeez!
Longhorn is better. Unlike Apple’s OS, Longhorn exists only in the Magical World of Fantasy, where supermodels swarm adoringly around me, massaging my shoulders and whispering sweet little adulations to me.
Tiger exists in the boring old Real World, a world ruled by Texas yahoos with billionaire buddies and corporate criminal cronies.
It’s lies, all lies!!! I still get paid by M$!!!
Back in the early 1990s, I had some friends that worked for Novell. It was clear at the time that Novell was the defacto standard for enterprise networking. They saw no other company as a threat (yes, even Microslob at the time). In fact they laughed when you brought it up. Who was in a postion to dethrone them? Whether it was company pride, arrogance or short sightedness, the fact is they were an 800 pound gorilla and we were just not informed.
What happened to Novell? Don’t get me wrong, Novell made, hell, still makes a great product. I told my friends to keep an eye on Microslob and they snickered. There was no great love for M$ mind you, just an observation.
Now I talk to my peers in IT with great fondness for Apple. Sure, some laugh at me, some immediately get hot-headed and uber-defensive.
There is no denying where the real innovation is taking place, and it ain’t Redmond.
Anyone want to bet MS will have some “big news” about some “great new Longhorn features” around April 29th?
“The all new MS OS, Longhorn, with a yellow screen of death (instead of blue), to be released in 2007. The new interface will be based on Matel and not the current Fisher Price interface of XP!” etc…
mrw0lf: Yeah Apple is comming to the enterprise. NOT!
“It was clear at the time that Novell was the defacto standard for enterprise networking”
Yeah, For what? Im sorry dude, but novell sucks, always has, The best thing they “were” good for was network printing. Thats It. The Network Directory Service was pathetic.
Knowone cares about Mac OS X, except for the crApple Bigots.
Crip-
how old are you… what were you doing with your career in 1992?
….just making a point and using Novell as an example.
BTW…. a lot of people care!
>mrw0lf: Yeah Apple is comming to the enterprise. NOT!
“It was clear at the time that Novell was the defacto standard for enterprise networking”
Yeah, For what? Im sorry dude, but novell sucks, always has, The best thing they “were” good for was network printing. Thats It. The Network Directory Service was pathetic.
Knowone cares about Mac OS X, except for the crApple Bigots>
What grade are you in?
Crip-
Why do you care about messages on MDN if you despise Apple so much? If we are all crApple bigots why do you waste your time?
whoa, I thought ron was dead. just wishful thinking I guess
Of course we all know that it doesn’t matter how good Tiger will be because the masses don’t even know Apple exists. And if they do, they don’t know what an OS is. The Wintel monopoly is so pervasive that Windows could be almost completely unusable and the masses would continue to use Wintel. Even know we love our Macs and OS X, Tiger will have little impact on the vast masses of computer users. And this is all true with Apple still being a viable, profitable company.
>whoa, I thought ron was dead. just wishful thinking I guess>
You don’t know about Easter?
Well, no, you wouldn’t, wishing things that may come back to you.
Years ago, Microsoft knew Longhorn would really ship in 2006 or 07. This is just Microsoft way to placate their users and stall.