Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track."
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Again, Microsoft had intended to release Vista four years earlier, with new features that would mean there would be applications that would require Vista. Vista, however, was late, and had most of it's original features during its early development planing dropped, so unlike XP vs Windows 9x, it did not have any applications being written for it with backwards compatibility problems. Microsoft's lack of new features, and hence improved OS longevity for their OS, is not because Microsoft wanted to be kinder to consumers than Apple. It's because Vista was a lot less than Microsoft had planned.