New Watenho
13-05-2005, 11:32
So anyway, an article on the video section at BBC News Online (http://news.bbc.co.uk) the other day alerted me to a very real fact about the computer world which may or may not change things somewhat.
Tiger is better than Longhorn.
Now hol' on here just one cotton-pickin' minute, I hear you cry, Mac users are elitist zealots, poncey graphics designers and general wankers. In fairness, I agree with you in part. The moment someone mentions the word "Mac" my boyfriend becomes all-but intolerable. But this time, they have a point.
Longhorn (http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/productinfo/default.aspx) is now, without the slightest shadow of a doubt, behind Tiger (http://www.apple.com/macosx/). And Tiger is out, and Longhorn is due for release in over a year. Mind, it was due for release a good while ago, and they've already stripped it of several features, including a new file allocation system, because they couldn't integrate them.
Anyone have Windows Media Player 10? Anyone notice, when they got it, how different it was to 9? How much more like iTunes?
Anyone seen videos of Avalon, Longhorn's OS graphics tool, running? It's copying tricks Macs were doing with 10.3. Moreover, I gather from a (relatively impartial*) friend (and his parents) whose computer l33t is somewhat hardcore (and whose parents both write software for a living) that essentially Avalon is copying Quartz, the MacOS rendering tool.
Anyone seen Tiger running? I'm telling you, Longhorn even looks like it :p
The MiniMac might have been a mistake, or not; the iPod goes from strength to strength, and the iTunes Music Store dominates the legal music download market so overwhelmingly that Mac is having to subsidise some of its competitors so it can avoid being accused of having a monopoly.
The future belongs to the fruit.
*to accuse him of partiality would be silly, for his house has 14 computers: 5 on Windows, 7 on various Linux distros and 2 Macs, and they're all for different purposes. He's pretty much l33t on them all, too.
Tiger is better than Longhorn.
Now hol' on here just one cotton-pickin' minute, I hear you cry, Mac users are elitist zealots, poncey graphics designers and general wankers. In fairness, I agree with you in part. The moment someone mentions the word "Mac" my boyfriend becomes all-but intolerable. But this time, they have a point.
Longhorn (http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/productinfo/default.aspx) is now, without the slightest shadow of a doubt, behind Tiger (http://www.apple.com/macosx/). And Tiger is out, and Longhorn is due for release in over a year. Mind, it was due for release a good while ago, and they've already stripped it of several features, including a new file allocation system, because they couldn't integrate them.
Anyone have Windows Media Player 10? Anyone notice, when they got it, how different it was to 9? How much more like iTunes?
Anyone seen videos of Avalon, Longhorn's OS graphics tool, running? It's copying tricks Macs were doing with 10.3. Moreover, I gather from a (relatively impartial*) friend (and his parents) whose computer l33t is somewhat hardcore (and whose parents both write software for a living) that essentially Avalon is copying Quartz, the MacOS rendering tool.
Anyone seen Tiger running? I'm telling you, Longhorn even looks like it :p
The MiniMac might have been a mistake, or not; the iPod goes from strength to strength, and the iTunes Music Store dominates the legal music download market so overwhelmingly that Mac is having to subsidise some of its competitors so it can avoid being accused of having a monopoly.
The future belongs to the fruit.
*to accuse him of partiality would be silly, for his house has 14 computers: 5 on Windows, 7 on various Linux distros and 2 Macs, and they're all for different purposes. He's pretty much l33t on them all, too.