Slate Magazine: Leopard Devours Vista
Slate Magazine: Leopard Devours Vista
by , 4:15 PM EDT, October 31st, 2007
Leopard demolishes Vista in a classy, coherent upgrade according to Slate Magazine on Wednesday. Apple has underpromised and overdelivered while Vista's techincal improvements remain difficult for users to appreciate and utilize.
Apple's OS update approach stands in sharp contrast to Microsoft's. While Apple remains modest in its numbering system and includes lots of new features in periodic releases, Microsoft "trumpets each new version of Windows as an epochal breakthrough, thereby raising expectations so high that it can't possibly meet them," Harry McCracken wrote.
As a result, Microsoft's "The Wow Starts Now" campaign, intended to create wonder has simply resulted in users being speechless and full of desire to cling to a six year-old XP. The reason is that while Vista has real improvements, they are presented in such a confusing manner that users become dismayed.
"On the security front, a feature called User Access Control can help keep you safe from hackers ... but its in-your-face nag notes are so irritating that it's tempting to turn the whole thing off and take your chances," Mr. McCracken noted. "Vista offers better technical underpinnings than XP for sophisticated applications yet to come ... but many existing programs and add-ons won't ever work with it."
Most notable is Apple's implementation of Time Machine. While Vista's backup system may be technically superior, the user interface itself is confusing. Worse, many customers will never even get to use it; it's available only with Windows Vista Ultimate priced at US$399.
In time, the author noted, these monster upgrades in a box may become a thing of the past. The Internet moves too fast these days, and those shrink wrap boxes might be dinosaurs at some point. Even so, the author concluded, "Leopard may be as much dinosaur as feline. It's an extremely likable dinosaur, however, and one that was worth the wait. If only Microsoft's creation were so highly evolved."
Observer Comments
Do I have to remind you people that we just had a record quarter!?
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QuoteSteve Ballmer wrote:
Do I have to remind you people that we just had a record quarter!?
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You are soo funny.. Record quarter on the sale of XP!
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