Star An Engineer's Thoughts on Mac OS X Tiger
Linked by Jean-Baptiste Quéru on Tue 29th Jun 2004 17:40 UTC
Mac OS X Let me make it clear. I'm not a fan of Apple. I think that their products are overhyped, overpriced and underperforming. If you're looking for a fair unbiased opinion, you're looking in the wrong place. You've been warned. So, I was at Steve Jobs' 2004 WWDC keynote yesterday, attempting to take pictures for OSNews (an amazingly hard task, by the way, which really explained why people pay big bucks for big lenses equipped with image stabilizers). UPDATE: Stop reading right there, I have rewritten & updated the article here.
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mod -5 troll
by jon on Tue 29th Jun 2004 18:22 UTC

is this a joke? Why would OSNews let this troll of an article even exist? Are you guys looking for more comments or something?

RE: "Windows 3.1/95/98/ME to Windows NT/2000/XP was at least as big"

This wasn't a transistion at all, sure MS and developers had to transition, but consumers didn't. And sure, its because they made everything very compatible, and sure, that just leads us back to the bloat that is windows and all the holes that came with that. The api is disgusting.

Mac Os > Os X was a transition that could not have had the convenience of backwards compatibility like 9x > xp had. It was a whole new OS. Hence there was a huge hurdle to overcome, 9x > xp didn't have much of a hurdle to over come so it wasn't much of a transition, you can say "well thanks to MS there wasn't and they are better now" but you still prove no point. There was no transition/hurdle, so it wasn't listed. You are wrong to think that was a transition.

and as far as windows 2003 being an OS release from MS since 2001, i'm pretty sure Jobs was talking consumer OS.

The things you have picked out about Os X being broken are so menial and small that its lame to even hear you mention them. I could come up with 10 reasons off the top of my head why windows is broken, and they would be ENORMOUS reasons that affect every user every day.

Os X IS a better system. You might not like it, and you are obviously too immature and hard headed to admin it, but it is better. Its geared toward what consumers do with computers in 2004 and is engineered for next generation computing. Windows, simply is not.

And OSnews, if thats "an engineer's thoughts" please, spare us next time.