In a PC Magazine opinion piece, Oliver Rist makes note of some deficiencies in Apple's new OS, declaring, "Before Apple makes any more smug OS-related attacks on Microsoft, it ought to take a good look in the mirror."
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Apple market Time machine as the next big thing. They make video, that shout how revolutionary it is. No wonder users knows it's there an what to use it.
Microsoft were so much concerned with sideshow and aero, the never market the backup utility. Windows user just aren't aware there is such utility.
Marketing is often more powerful than technology. But it doesn't withdraw credit from Apple, while it's an crucial feature, it is somehow a marketing/information responsibility that MS didn't take.
Edited 2007-11-30 21:07
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"Apple should be praised for making backup available and usable by the average Joe; that my friends is huge!"
Ok, not owning one, but just a guess here. Buy any of those network storage backup device type things, and it will come with perfectly useable backup software useable by the average Joe. And Windows home server will have something similar no doubt.
God why is that whenever Apple does something that it is suddenly seen as "innovative", even though its been done before?
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On the Mac...
Buy ANY external USB drive plug it in. A OS X asks you if you would like to use the disk for time machine. You say yes and your done. (Beauty is, even if you had no intention to use the drive for a backup it asks you and gets you thinking about backups)
When you need to restore something, click on time machine icon and find the file in a familiar finder interface. Click restore.
On the PC...
Think to yourself hey I need to backup my stuff and find a USB drive that has backup software. Plug it in. Install the software. Configure what files to backup and set a schedule. You find out the backup software is a lite version, which will not allow you to backup network drives or other computers or requires you to remember to press a button on the drive to start a backup.
When you want to restore from the external drive provided software, you have to remember what was the name of the funky backup software? Find it in the start menu. Start the application. Figure out the 3rd party restore function and, most likely, pick only the last available copy.
Now chances are next time you buy a external drive, you will get a totally different set of backup software or you have to decide I only want to buy drives from manufacture X.
Which scenario do you want your grandma/mother-in-law/cousin/neighbor using? If you say PC than you probably have too much time on your hands or enjoy getting calls on the weekend. Oh and by the way each of your callers will have a different backup program installed.
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This guy complains about the technical issues of Time Machine, i.e. no bit level backup, etc. Then talks about Windows having the same functionality. He, and others, need to get past the spec sheet and look at the results. I know 4 non technical people using Leopard that now backup hourly! I know zero windows users doing the same. Why is that so hard for people to understand? Apple should be praised for making backup available and usable by the average Joe; that my friends is huge!
As to Leopards stability, I see no real change between it and Tiger, or Windows XP/2000 for that matter.