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Apple's Mac OS X 'Tiger' wins rave reviews; Microsoft's Windows 'Longhorn' is MIA | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Mac Daily News | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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"With its new operating system ready to ship, Apple felt justified in kicking some sand in Microsoft's face. Its marketers crowed about how its new Mac OS X release included features that Microsoft could only talk about while it continued to work on its own long-delayed successor to Windows XP," Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes for The Washington Post. "That was a problem for Microsoft -- in 2003, when Apple was talking up Mac OS X 10.3, a k a Panther. Now, two years later, things haven't changed much," Vaughan-Nichols writes. "A new Apple update, OS X 10.4, or Tiger, is on store shelves while that XP replacement -- nicknamed Longhorn for now -- is still, well, not here." "Longhorn is now scheduled to arrive during the 2006 holiday season. Originally, it was to show up sometime in 2004. It was also supposed to have a lot more features in its original incarnation," Vaughan-Nichols writes. "...Instead of the biggest, baddest operating system ever, skeptics see Longhorn as Windows XP Service Pack 3." | ||
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| #1 By 7797 (63.76.44.6) at 5/2/2005 10:41:25 AM |
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"However most people still buy Toyotas and are perfectly happy with them."
How many people who own a Toyota would very much like to own a Mercedes? How many people who own a Mercedes would rather own a Toyota? |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/2/2005 10:57:03 AM |
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I'm amazed that the Washington Post paid Steven Vaughn-Nichols to write an article. But then I suppose it's difficult to get people to write articles who actually understand technology, as they are busy deploying technology and not writing articles.
Although it's also interesting in that the Post review of Tiger was less than raving... Basically saying it's a small evolution and not worth upgrading to unless you're on a very older release. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/30/AR2005043000166.html |
| #3 By 9589 (66.57.223.86) at 5/2/2005 1:20:56 PM |
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The perennial question remains, with laptop sales alone topping 195 million units this year why is Apple only able to eek out a mere 4 million units if its so wonderful?
Hey, I know, it must be the cost benefit ratio! Early last year, I spent $850 for a Dell with a 2.6GHz HT CPU, a Gig of RAM, a 64MB video card, a 5.1 sound card, a 17" LCD screen, their 940 level injet printer and Windows XP Professional. My purchase the year before was a superb Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for $1700. I have never had a bit of trouble with either of them and that includes the operating system - they just work. And work they do. The desktop stays on all the time and is only restarted after installation of software. It has six operating systems installed. Windows XP Pro is the primary OS. Then there is 2 X W2K3 Standard Edition, 2 X W2K Pro, 1 X WinNT, and 1 X WinME all inside VPC 2004. I have run as many as three of the virtualized OSs at any one time. Its a terrific work horse. |
| #4 By 3 (62.253.128.15) at 5/2/2005 4:19:47 PM |
| I guess it's each to their own, but personally I find Tiger excellent, no its not a massive step up from 10.3 really but at least good new features get added instead of basic media based updates appearing. I use both Windows XP and a Mac for work i do, for ease of use for mail, browsing, music and photos I prefer the mac though, for everything else its still Windows. |
| #5 By 9589 (66.57.223.86) at 5/2/2005 4:27:31 PM |
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JeffChapnet, those are interesting anedotes, but that just doesn't happen on well managed Windows XP Professional SP2 systems in my experience.
We manage over 100,000 computers at my company and we just don't get the complaints that you mention above. Since we migrated to Windows XP Professional and Dell Optiplex desktops and Latitude laptops our help desk has stayed the same in size yet we made an acquistion that increased our corporate "footprint" by 1/3 in terms of both territory and number of employees. The biggest complaint and the most time spent is our help desk personnel having to install applications (over 400 and counting) for our users. Naturally our users would like to do the installing, but we do not give them that right. It ensures a very stable and trouble free computer environment. Not long ago, one of the most time consuming aspects of workstations support was keeping up with hardware update in terms of BIOS, firmware and drivers. But with Dell's add on to Microsoft System Management Server 2003, that problem is largely solved. Those updates are rolled out across the enterprise just like OS and applications are - automatically. It sounds like you are in the small business computer integration business. If that is so, do what I helped a friend of mine do. We put under contract those small businesses that he sold computers and servers to and he set up MOM and SMS, but via VPN to their businesses. He monitors their workstations, servers and network with MOM and puts out updates as needed via SMS. His customers have never been happier. He only sells 3-4k of computers a year, but because of his integration and the above skills he provides his customers, he takes home a six figure income. By the way, one of the glaring problems Apple, as well as *nix for that matter, has when offering their wares to small business is the dearth of small business specific applications available. Name the small business type and you can find an ISV that has a software package that runs over Windows. I just helped with an upgrade for a veterinary that had a half a dozen Windows based veterinarian specific software packages to choose from. They have a multi office busines and gross over 3 million a year. The are both small and large animal vets - so mobile comptuers systems were a must. While they always have an eye on the bottom line, they weren't that concerned with what it cost to have the best mobile computer systems available - in other words they could choose from any vendor if it provided them with the best overall solution. Also, they were already using Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet computers and any solution had to include their continued use. They were very impressed with them. |
| #6 By 3653 (68.54.224.219) at 5/2/2005 5:37:06 PM |
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OSX ought to be very good considering its price of $516
$129 * 4 releases (correct me if I'm wrong, I lose count) |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/2/2005 5:54:36 PM |
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Lexus = Toyota
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| #8 By 2960 (156.80.34.36) at 5/3/2005 8:40:58 AM |
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#10,
And in the same span of time you could spend $600 on Windows. What's your point... Yes, I HATE the no-upgrade package policy of Apple but Apple's full package is still cheaper than Microsoft's Pro upgrade price. TL |
| #9 By 3653 (68.54.224.219) at 5/4/2005 1:22:23 AM |
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Larry, please explain how you come to $600 for Windows XP, SP1 (free), and SP2 (free).
Oh, and also keep in mind that each and every upgrade of OSX downgrades you to the non-Pro version of Quicktime. So, add in another $30 x 4 upgrades for that. |
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