“On Friday Apple released its ‘Tiger’ operating system into the marketplace. Borrowing heavily from what we had seen in Longhorn (Microsoft’s next version of Windows) last year, Tiger is an impressive piece of work. I’m not one of those who thinks that using a competitor is a bad idea, particularly if you can get it out first. You play this game to win and, as long as it’s legal, in my book anything goes,” Rob Enderle writes for TechNewsWorld.
“Tiger has a number of features that appear to have been pulled from Longhorn’s preview last year. The biggest one is ‘smart search,’ [Spotlight] a feature that allows you to rapidly search a variety of file types to find what you need. With storage approaching a Terabyte now, this is an incredibly useful feature and one Windows users will have to get from a third party until Longhorn ships late next year,” Enderle writes. “Another is virtual folders [Smart Folders]. This allows you to group files virtually by author, topic, or other criteria making them a lot easier to find. Finally there is the use of widgets [Dashboard], something you can get in a third-party product called “Window Blinds” and also shown last year by Microsoft. This allows you to put little useful applets on your screen. This last is more eye candy than anything else, but I like it and it makes the OS look cool.”
“Tiger is well-integrated with hardware and provides a solid out-of-box user experience. The user interface is mature and it has a UNIX core that remains one of the most secure on the market… As an individual, if you can live on the platform, there really is no competition: Tiger would easily be my choice. But if you have to use Windows at work, moving between the two user interfaces is painful and should make you less productive on the Windows machine. This will be an individual call; if the fun of using the Apple platform is greater than the constant aggravation of the difference, then Apple is your path. If not, stay with Windows. Overall, I think Apple will grow its market with this OS and the Mac Mini. Maintaining it after Longhorn ships is a question we’ll address later,” Enderle writes. “What will I use? I’m a gamer, and I love to modify my hardware, but Tiger doesn’t support my favorite game and you don’t ‘mod’ Apple hardware. Apple has yet to come out with an OS I can use, and until they do, ugly name and all, I’m on Windows and waiting for Longhorn.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We recommend reading Defending Windows over Mac a sign of mental illness as it explains, in part, why Enderle feels the need to pretend that Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger copied Microsoft’s vaporous Longhorn. Until Apple makes an operating system for insipid half-wits who have their lips permanently bonded to Bill Gates’ ass, Enderle will be waiting for an Apple OS he can use.
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Apple must be a very efficient to steal features from a Longhorn preview and get them out on Tiger two years before Microsoft ever does.
What is this guy smoking?
It’s MICROF*CK who copied Apple. Even a Microf*ck exec admitted to that!
This is just the old Microsoft trick of getting enough people to say something that others start believing it.
Metadata searches were part of BeOS. Did they steal them from Longhorn too?
Is “Defending Windows over Mac a sign of mental illness” similar to “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”?
He really needs to cut back on the crack.
Right and Microshit invented the GUI…
Ummm, yeah: they developed Spotlight from the ground up in less than a year?! If they can do that, I want Apple’s coders (well, heck, I’d like their coders anyway, but you get the idea!)…..
funny thing [or sad really] is that here in the bay area he was spewing this same MS BS as local news stations used him and his delusiional jibberish as part of their coverage of Tiger’s launch on Friday, calling out Apple for copying MS & Longshort… what a knob!
Longhorn? What is Longhorn? Went to my local CompUSA and looked but only saw Tiger. How can you copy some thing that doesn’t exist?
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My PalmPilot III from 1998 would group search results into categories much like the results being demoed. (Address book, notes, etc..) I’m sure versions before that had it as well. It’s not revolutionary, it’s evolutionary; and long awaited on a computer OS. It’s just that Microsoft’s growth has stunted and Mac keeps flourishing.
Apple can’t come up with an OS that Enderle can use? Dear GOD man, how stupid can you be!? This is like saying “I have yet to find an envelope that works to my satisfaction, so I’m going to stick with Pidgeons.” I agree, Enderle must be suffering from Stokholm syndrome. Too bad I don’t pity the man.
I can’t imagine all the negative comments he’s going to get from this article. In this case he deserves every single one. I don’t know if he could’ve written anything else that was more deserving of a Mac fan’s wrath.
I find this oddly comforting. In a time where even Paul Thurott can show unmmistakable signs of coming around, it’s nice to know that some things never change.
Huh… I still fail to see how someone can “borrow heavily” from something that isn’t even going to be released for at least another 18 months. I wish Enderle would explain that fact to us…
“Until Apple makes an operating system for insipid half-wits who have their lips permanently bonded to Bill Gates’ ass, Enderle will be waiting for an Apple OS he can use.”
ROTFLMFAO!
GD you, MDN! That’s the third keyboard this year I’ve fscked with a Diet Coke spit take because of you guys!
Once again, copying something that does not yet exist is innovation, NOT plagarism.
I really would like to know what sort of rose-colored glasses these guys are wearing and/or what drugs they are using. Would make dealing with these guys easier.
Damn my clear vision and coherent thoughts, can’t get along with the masses…
These idiots write inflammatory stuff to get us Mac users all riled up. They know that what they write is bull turd, but there’s a whole population of delusional Microwhore users out there who can’t tell the difference in the smell of apple pie to the aforementioned bovine feces.
Enderle is either the most misinformed and uneducated technology “analyst” to ever walk the face of the earth, the biggest attention whore the technology media has ever seen to date, or the least clever and most obvious paid Micro$oft $hill to ever be published. So, which is it, Rob?
Not only are they comparing Tiger to a non existent OS but they are saying the non existent OS is better than Tiger and Windows users are agreeing with them.
That’s either marketing genius at work or a very, very stupid user base. Probably both.
Nobody ever said Microsoft couldn’t market.
Al wrote:
“Nobody ever said Microsoft couldn’t market.”
True that, Al.
And there’s millions of idiots out there eating it all up.
This last is more eye candy than anything else, but I like it and it makes the OS look cool.”
i didn’t know this guy had a sense of whats “cool”.
You said a mouthful, Al. The complete void where logic should be for so many people is absolutely astounding. It’s like living in Bizarro World for real. We had one such poster on here at one point, flinging all sorts of unbelievable FUD that anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills would have had better sense than to believe. He, in fact, was the inspiration for my user name.
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MW is “child”, as in “Rob, don’t be a child simply because Apple obviously has something very good where your beloved Microsoft has absolutely nothing.”
Some look from out of the darkness .. !
“But if you have to use Windows at work, moving between the two user interfaces is painful and should make you less productive on the Windows machine.”
Surely, if you’re using two machines, you’re less productive on the machine that’s more difficult to use? Enderle is hoist by his own petard. Enderle also pretends that Microsoft “previewed” Longhorn last year and then on Friday Steve suddenly whipped out Tiger and said: “look what I made!” Tiger was also previewed last year. The difference is that Apple delivered, while Microsoft’s only updates have been: “it won’t be quite as good as we first said, and it will be late.”
And why does every Windows-loving pundit have to emphasise “I’m a gamer, and I love to modify my hardware.”? None of the people I discuss computers with out here in the “real” world fit that description, so why do we have to have advice based on those criteria alone?
Isn’t this the same guy that wrote that “ALL the GLASS” would break in an iMac if there were an earthquake?
Zero credibility, next…