Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 06:12 UTC
Earlier this month, we reported that The Unofficial Apple Weblog's as well as Ars Technica's sources said that Apple was working on the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard. The news was that the new release wouldn't focus on new features, but on performance. During yesterday's WWDC 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs confirmed this rumour, and now Apple has published a preview page.
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Member since:2006-10-10
There's no way an OS release will take out Microsoft. Especially if it's relegated to running on a specific hardware platform only.
You want to get Microsoft where it counts? Woo the corporate user base to switching to Mac. Make a Mac that's more affordable than the Wintel counterpart for enterprise users. And have a server product that can actually compete with Active Directory.
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2008-04-10
I think Apple are doing a performance release like this to lull Microsoft into a false sense of security. They know Windows 7 will probably get the same reception as Vista, so they're coiling up, ready to strike, with either 10.7 or .8, or maybe even Mac OS XI. Purely speculative, of course. Microsoft will see a sluggish uptake of Windows 7, and Apple will strike when the iron is hot: just as Windows 7 starts to pick up momentum. The upgrade treadmill has been slowed a little, and a decisive blow to Microsoft, such as breaking the market momentum of their flagship product after the lackluster performance of Vista, could break the treadmill once and for all. Or at least change it's ownership.
I, for one, welcome our new, artistically inclined overlords.