Eve Kotyk wrote:
> Some of us tofu eaters might take offense. ;-)
Yea, Tofu is only bad tasting if you've prepared it wrong ;)
> Someone from LOSURS posted a link a day or so ago, comparing Vista Ultimate to a Ubunto-like OS. It was quite interesting.
As a Mac and Linux user, the "feature" list of Windows Vista is laughable.
* Windows Aero: Quartz Extreme (10.x).
* Windows Shell: Spotlight (10.4+).
* Windows Search: Spotlight (10.4+).
* Windows Sidebar: Dashboard (10.4+).
* Windows Internet Explorer 7: FireFox/Camino/Safari (10.x).
* Windows Media Player 11: Quicktime and VLC (10.x).
* Backup and Restore Center: rsync in 10.4, TimeMachine in 10.5
(due out in a few months).
* Windows Mail: Mail (10.2+).
* Windows Calendar: iCal (10.2+).
* Windows Photo Gallery: iPhoto (since 2003).
* Windows DVD Maker: iDVD (since 2003)
* Windows Meeting Space: iChat (10.2+).
* Windows Media Center: FrontRow (10.4+ on new Intel Macs) + its
media remote.
* Windows Update: Software Update (10.x).
* Parental controls: same name (10.x).
* Windows SideShow: Nope, no analog there.
* Speech recognition: Yup, 10.3+ has this.
* Problem Reports and Solutions: OS X also has built-in problem
reporting.
So, basically, this brings Microsoft's circa 2001 Windows XP up to the
standards of the Mac circa 2004-2005 when 10.4 (Tiger) came out.
However, since Apple both made the OS I run on the Mac and the hardware,
the integrated experience is a bit better. Plus it's trivial for me to
run Linux or Windows inside Parallels (although MacOS is fairly POSIX,
which is nice for UNIX people like me).
Received on Wed Jan 31 08:28:22 2007
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