Leopard looks like  Vista

[JackoliciousLegs]

Sike...
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My rebuke:

1. New Leopard Desktop: Not a whole lot different from VistaÔÇÖs Aero and Sidebar.


Just like tiger looks like XP.

2. New Finder: Many of the same capabilities as the integrated ÔÇ£Instant SearchÔÇØ in Vista (the subsystem that Google is trying to get the Department of Justice to rule as being anti-competitive). The new Leopard Coverflow viewing capability looked almost identical to VistaÔÇÖs Flip 3D to me.

-Vista's search came way after spotlight.
-Google is filing antitrust because Vista's indexer doesnt play nice with Google's
-Coverflow is for viewing icons and files. Flip 3D is an alt-tab eyecandy thing.

3. QuickLook: Live file previews ÔÇö just like the thumbnail preview capability available in Vista.

-Yes. Correct.

4. 64-bitness: Leopard is the first 64-bit only version of a desktop client. Vista comes in 32-bit and 64-bit varieties. And most expect Windows Seven will still be available in 32-bit flavors. Until 32-bit machines go away, it seems like a good idea to offer 32-bit operating systems.

-Leopard runs on 32 bit systems too. Most apple systems out now are 64 bit though.

5. Core animation: Not sure what the Vista comparison is here. The demo reminded me of Microsoft Max photo-sharing application. The WWDC developers attending the Jobs keynote didnÔÇÖt seem wowed with this functionality.

-Vista has nothing like this... :?:

6. Boot Camp. You can run Vista on your Mac. Apple showed Vista running Solitaire in its WWDC demo. But I bet those downloading the 2.5 million copies of Boot Camp available since last year are running a lot of other Windows business apps and games.

-Yes. What does this have to do with anything?

7. Spaces: A feature allowing users to group applications into separate spaces. I havenÔÇÖt seen anything like in in Vista, but the audience didnÔÇÖt seem overly impressed by it.

-Not impressed because it's been with *nix for ages and implemented for Tiger by VirtueDesktops.

8. Dashboard with widgets. IsnÔÇÖt this like the Vista Sidebar with gadgets?

-Only better because it doesn't clutter. Size is also less limited. And this was in Tiger... prior to Vista.

9. iChat gets a bunch of fun add-ons (photo-booth effects, backrops, etc.) to make it a more fully-featured videoconferencing product. The ÔÇ£iChat TheaterÔÇØ capability Jobs showed off reminded me of VistaÔÇÖs Meeting Space and/or the new Microsoft ÔÇ£Shared ViewÔÇØ (code-named ÔÇ£TahitiÔÇØ) document-sharing/conferencing subsystems.

-So iChat is like some codenamed thing that is just for doc sharing. nope.

10. Time Machine automatic backup. Vista has built-in automatic backup (Volume Shadow Copy). It doesnÔÇÖt look anywhere near as cool as Time Machine. But it seems to provide a lot of the same functionality.

-OK.

The reason I posted this is because this guy isn't even a mac user. He has no idea what he's talking about. He just blogged something on zdnet, got lots of attention, and about half of it is false. No real story here.. just common for the mac vs pc argument. Also, I was in general, not too amazed at all the features in Leopard. Some were very cool. Nothing SUPER revolutionary. Just improvements on a good product.

/Rant.

[DMClark]

The next consumer version of Windows will be 64-bit only (which will probably be the only way to force support for 64-bit, people will bitch and complain but it'll be good in the long run). I had a friend who just went to Microsofts TechEd conference in FL this past week and they were talking about that and Server 2008.

I believe it was server 08 that is the last 32-bit OS from them. Honestly though, I watched the whole video of the meeting and was not impressed what so ever. Maybe MAC has reached a peak? I've never owned a MAC and never will, but still like to watch Jobs do what he does best. Make band wagoners buy his shit (there are some smart people in there too, but there are also a lot of blind followers).

have to give credit though, at least their new OS will work since they have hardware control. I installed Vista on my machine and can't use it because Nvidia isn't updating Geforce 6-series drivers. Gives me an excuse to build a new core 2 duo system though.

EDIT: Next consumer Windows version is scheduled for 2009 (see 2012) and is suppose to do away with the whole start menu thing with something that has been in development for over 10 year nows.