Star Whatever Happened to... Mac OS X Leopard?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 19:23 UTC
Mac OS X Paul Thurrot, everybody's favourite Microsoft Apple Microsoft zealot, writes on his webpage: "It's funny. Apple calls Microsoft a copy-cat, and yet, I feel like I've seen some of these features somewhere before. Many of the features, however, are just sad. Is this really the best they had to show off right now?" El Reg agrees with him, saying: "On the basis of the evidence so far the sixth release of Mac OS X is, to put it bluntly, a point release." Update by ELQ: A related editorial by Wired.
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robertojdohnert
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2005-07-12

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Time Machine is neat if only because the interface is so intuitive and this is a desktop with such a feature, not Win Server 2003++. "

Regardless, Windows Server 2003 has the feature. Its not new but Apple playing catchup and then trying to say they came up with it, like they did Spotlight which everyone knows the 2003 PDC is where Desktop Search was unvieled on Microsofts part and wound up in OS X 10.4

" Now, I do have to say, that almost every point he had was "Vista has this"... which is fine and all that Vista >plans to have feature XYZ<, but Vista is not an actual stable, market-ready product yet either. And all the cool features I've heard about for Vista keep getting dumped or whittled off. "

And have you tried 10.5 yet? I have had 3 kernel panics and a spontaneous shutdown since I have had it installed. I would hardly call 10.5 in its current state "Market ready" It will take time, like Vista its a pre-release.

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I think this whimper of a show-n-tell keynote really illustrates that MacOS X has already made significant advances in the past 4+ years and perhaps having a whole trove of wiz-bang new features in an OS every 6-12 months is neither realistic nor attainable. Perhaps, rightly so. "

I personally think Steve and Co screwed the pooch with this keynote because they are too busy jabbing Microsoft. I think they need to concentrate less on MS and concentrate more on Apple Computer. And I wasnt the only one who thougt that.

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IanSVT Member since:
2005-07-06

"Time Machine is neat if only because the interface is so intuitive and this is a desktop with such a feature, not Win Server 2003++. "

Regardless, Windows Server 2003 has the feature. Its not new but Apple playing catchup"

Big time, Microsoft too. While not as flexible as VSC, Novell NetWare has had a past version salvagable utility built in for a dozen years or more.

Everyone ganks from everyone else. Is active directory a grand technology created by microsoft? No, it's a copy of all the high level ideas that Novell's eDirectory is based on. What really matters is who can package it the best.

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