they're copying MacOS X as fast as they can. It just slowed down recently, because they had to take a bunch of developers off the next version of Windows to copy features from the iPhone to WindowsME.

"Microsoft seems to have been both distracted by Google, as Google's Eric Schmidt has painted rosy pictures of data clouds as well as its inability to manage the Vista rollout."

What is the other side of the "both"? The tense of "to have been" does not seem to have a match.

It makes sense. M$ was distracted by both google and its own inability to get vista out the door with out tripping all over its self. The description of how google was distracting them may have been what was confusing you.

...significant Microsoft product, ever again. Those days are long gone, and they are sliding into the position of babysitting a legacy for quite awhile. They will continue to make obscene sums of money with long term contracts, but by and large will have to become "back office" only - like IBM.

It is amazing that large groups of smart people are reduced to such consistent mediocrity, but it is not news.

This article confirms what I see every day in my work - M$ is adrift, proposing solutions looking for problems that they haven't yet defined.

I think it is a good thing that Microsoft is spending so much time and effort researching Surface Computing. It's a great idea that can go a long way, and maybe it can be a fresh break away from the abysmal Windows experience. I will follow this very closely, and I hope it works out well.

Leopard has been at least as troublesome as Vista - and Apple does not have the same variety of hardware to support! Quite simply - Apple seems to have placed "features" ahead of "quality".

The terrible thing is, that (unlike new PC's which can roll back to XP), new Apple customers can't roll back to Tiger, because Apple refuses to update Tiger for the new hardware.....

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Leopard has been at least as troublesome as Vista

Leopard has been at least as troublesome as Vista

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Not a thing you've posted makes a jot of sense. OSX Leopard is far more trouble free than Vista-by a country mile. PC Magazine said so and a lot of their ad revenue comes from MS. Better yet the Supervising programmers of Vista itself have massive complaints about Vista. Those e-mails from that last MS lawsuit did wonders in exposing how half-baked Vista is.

Your final comment about Tiger is just plain stupid. Would you even know an OSX machine if you saw one? Tiger runs on machines minted as far back as 9 years ago, leopard will install on any intel mac. including those 4 years old. As a new lawsuit points out, even "Vista capable" labeled hardware can barely run the OS. Being a troll, at least present a challenge. The Mac crowd are obviously a little more informed thatn that. Now if we were Windoze users, that would be another matter.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Microsoft are too busy hating (and trying to get one over on) Open Source and Linux. They messed up big time with Vista and now the ISO Standard debacle has shown them for the lawbreaking muppets they are. They just HAD to have a semi transparent UI only to have Compiz do the same on a tenth the hardware. They just HAD to have OOXML made into an ISO Std because ODF got made into an ISO Std. They are stuck in a trap whereby they have to show they can outdo Linux at every turn.

When you start singing from your enemies songsheet you have lost the war. (Mixed metaphor?)

Apple appears to simply not care about such trivialities. Apple just gets on with being Apple. Whether or not you agree with the direction they are going in, as a strategy it's working.

Apologies for all the posts. Using Opera, I typed the words and hit Submit - nothing happened. So I waited a bit, still nothing so I pressed Submit again. Got fed up and pressed it about 3 times. Eventually I gave up and went off to register so I could post that way and then came back to find it had submitted on each damned click.

You're using Opera, you needn't say anything more.

You should have said Vista was giving you issues...

The osx latest drop has been horrible to say the least. It's still hasn't had all the security fixed. Hell in the latest security contest put a osx , vista, and ubuntu. OSX was done on the 2nd day when they allowed programs that where part of the OS package. Vista on the other hand wasn't exploited till the last day of the contest when you were allowed to install 3rd party aps. Then it was finally broke into. Nice try !!

As far as security and features, Apple's softwares hit the rock bottom. Go to Google News and search Safari, you will know the proff. Then about Apple's focus... its $$$$$$ , the most closed and locked together with irrelevant softwares must be Apple's.

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As far as security and features, Apple's softwares hit the rock bottom. Go to Google News and search Safari, you will know the proff. Then about Apple's focus... its $$$$$$ , the most closed and locked together with irrelevant softwares must be Apple's.