Archive for the 'Vista vs. Mac OS X' Category
Vista vs. OS X?
Friday, February 16th, 2007In early January, we posted a review of Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system. Written by senior editor Erika Jonietz, the piece first appeared in the January/February 2007 issue of our magazine. In the piece, Jonietz described her disappointment with the company’s new software–and confessed to having crossed that clearest of lines in the cultural sand: [...]
Running Vista on a Mac
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Microsoft’s Vista hits store shelves on Tuesday and although it’s got a kicking in the press, there’s one group that actually seems quite excited about it — Mac users. At Macworld, the most crowded booths belonged to Parallels Inc. and VMWare, two software companies that help run Windows a Mac. It was quite remarkable: both [...]
Microsoft Vista Had Major Mac Envy, Company E-Mails
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Internal Microsoft e-mail messages from 2004 reveal that company evangelists and executives were awed by Apple’s just-added desktop search and acknowledged that what they did in Windows Vista would be directly compared with Mac OS X. The messages, which were filed as evidence in an Iowa state court trying a Microsoft antitrust case, were between [...]
Windows Vista vs. Linux vs. Leopard vs.Windows XP
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Yup, it’s time for some serious Vista-kicking: in this article we’ll discuss the competition Windows Vista is getting this year and what are the odds for success or failure. Let me remind you first some of the ambitions Microsoft has concerning Windows Vista and what others should expect from it: MS hopes to have [...]
Mac OS X Shines In Comparison With Windows Vista
Thursday, January 11th, 2007If you believe all the hype, installing the new Windows Vista operating system will solve world famine, end the AIDS crisis and bring about world peace. Well, maybe no one is saying it’s that great, but the clamor and fuss have been pretty boisterous. Hidden behind all of this hoopla, however, is the fact that [...]
Vista/OSX 10.4.8 dual boot on Intel/AMD
Thursday, December 14th, 2006There are only two ways to install OSX 10.4.88 legal on your Windows computer:
1. Become an Apple developer
2. You can also buy an Intel Mac (I would recommend the Mac Pro!), install Windows XP on it using Apple’s Boot Camp and remove OSX completely, so that you have a legally bought osx86 licence. This method [...]
Leopard vs Vista 5: Development Challenges
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006The Difference of Development
One of the Notable Lessons presented in The Rise and Fall of Platforms is that the ideal way to develop popular software products is to ship early and often, making regular and progressive updates.
Microsoft successfully applied this strategy with both Office and Windows in order to build what are perhaps the two [...]
Leopard vs Vista 3: A Risk Strategy
Saturday, November 18th, 2006A RISK Strategy
PC enthusiasts like to scoff at the market share of Macs in comparison to worldwide computer sales. They view the worldwide PC market like a simple board game of Risk, where market leaders Dell and HP have more armies scattered over more territories, and Apple only has armies placed in a few.
The strategic [...]
Leopard vs Vista 2: The Indirect Choice
Saturday, November 18th, 2006The Indirect Choice
Apple is strongest where Microsoft is weakest, and vice versa. Despite the intense interest in pitting Apple against Microsoft, Leopard and Vista simply aren’t direct competitors.
Part of the reason for this is that Apple is only making Leopard available for users of its own Mac hardware, while Vista runs on a wider [...]
Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X: The Startup Sound Debate
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Microsoft has crafted a new startup sound for Windows Vista’s Aero experience along with a complicated back story. But Apple’s Macintosh has long used sounds to alert users to system problems at startup time and this Vista ditty may be heard by Windows customers as mere "ear candy."
