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MDN word: Vista "opened" a lot of eyes to Mac!

"Vista might not have been such a turd if Microsoft had only....."

How many people have started their review of Vista in such a way..??

this guy loves scatalogical references, but no one prolly gives a crap that I said that.

"'Life is just too short to bother farting around with Windows Vista, I've got better things to do with my time than spend it on fixing or tweaking Microsoft's mistakes,' Lynch reports."

Booyah!

IF Microsoft had only....

IF being an important word in this case

You ain't shittin', Gee.....

@ Tower Tone

Here's another scatalogical reference: MS Zune

@ Tower Tone

Here's another scatological reference: MS Zune

IF is the middle word in life

There may come a day when Leopard or its successor is available on non-Apple hardware

I highly, highly doubt this. At least, not in any legit way anyway. Just don't foresee Apple licensing out their OS… they've seen the mistake that is thru M$.

That whole paragraph about mediocreSoft using Apple as R&D;is classic. I LIKE IT!!!

Where's Zune Tang?

Surely the Tang would like to comment...

Great article.

Lets see Thurrott, Enderie, and some other MS Shill counter this

Don't hold your breath for OS X to run (authorized) on non-Apple hardware! Just buy a Mac!

I agree with the idea that Apple may one day sell OS X for non-Apple computers. That day won't happen however until OS X marketshare is much greater than it is now.

OS X on any old hardware = tech nightmare

Jobs is convinced that owning the whole widget and the user's experience is critical.

I agree.

The two worst things about Windows are snotty Windows users and even snottier Windows IT people.

Both really, really suck big time!

If you want to see why I often loathe the Win-promo-camp, just read the comments under this article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/12/apple-charges-fortune-memory

Idiots.

"if Microsoft had only focused the appropriate amount of time, resources, and attention"

The problem is: they already poured 6 billion down the drain, with mediocre results. Would another billion have resulted in a better product? Would another year have made it more unobtrusive to use?
Steve Jobs used the right words (in front of an analyst-panel):
"If it was just about wrting cheques, I wouldn't be sitting here".

Sums it up really nicely.

OOOOOMMMMMMGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's going on? Site sites always HATED Macs.

"I'll keep Vista on my Mac for the times I need to run a Windows-only game and/or test Windows applications for reviews and columns. "

Bill Gates is happy, Steve Ballmer is happy. They just made money off of you.

What´s the differece between a person that buys Vista for his Mac or Windows PC? Nothing. Bill G. laughs all the way to the bank.

@MDN:

Where's your tagline -

Macintosh. Becasue life's too short.

???????

@ B Johnson

It is called transition... in a year or two vista or xt will just be unneeded and just fade away... Why waste good HD storage space... lol
it is like the one- two from the car salesmen team... Bill and Steve's Antique OS's Unless you're Leno..How many vintage cars do you really need... or really drive...
very weird--'drive' was the magic work... MDN you're clairvoyance is... is scary...

Life is just too short to bother farting around with Windows Vista

Where is Camel's Milk Drinker, a remark like that is after his own butt.

You have to encourage him?

;P

"I'll keep Vista on my Mac for the times I need to run a Windows-only game..."

Gee, is a computer game really a 'need' for some?

It's hard to respect a reviewer that has such needs.

Funny, Apple has no trouble keeping its "eye on the ball" as it competes with Nokia, et.al. on phones, Sandisk and others on media players, the music companies on media distribution, Toshiba and others on high-end notebooks. Yet it still cleans Microsoft's clock in delivering a next generation OS on Intel hardware.

As to OS X on non-Apple hardware, it's already there, but only as OEM suppliers of Apple-branded gear. That's likely the best they can expect. Perhaps HP could be allowed to make gear for Apple that HP would then sell into their Enterprise accounts.

For a price, Apple could Certify any part or mother board design needed. For that matter, Apple could limit the list of acceptable parts and control the Mac using PC market that way.

On the other hand HP and Dell couldn't even sell iPods, what makes anyone think they could sell Macs.

"Vista is an example of what happens when Microsoft takes its eye off of operating systems so that they can compete with Google. Vista might not have been such a turd if Microsoft had only focused the appropriate amount of time, resources, and attention.

I'm sorry, but they had 5+ years to deliver Longhorn, er, VIsta, and they didn't start looking at Google until about a year or so ago...

@Mike T.

> I'm sorry, but they had 5+ years to deliver Longhorn, er, VIsta, and they didn't start looking at Google until about a year or so ago...

Actually, Microsoft scrapped what they had done during the first 3+ years and started over from an existing Windows code-base. Then they spent the last 18 months (or so) scrambling to graft on mostly cosmetic changes to make Vista look "newer" than XP. That's why Vista is such as mess, even by Microsoft standards.

This scenario was amazingly similar to Apple's overly ambitious Copland project, which was supposed to replace System 7 (the classic Mac OS). Instead, the project was cancelled and some of the superficial features of Copland were integrated into the existing Mac OS 7.6 to create Mac OS 8 (and 9). It seems Microsoft can't help copying Apple a decade later, even when Apple makes a huge mistake.

Well it can't compete with Tiger either then in that case. I think i prefer it better. Sure Leopard's good, but nothing realy new except extra eye candy and a realy clumsy way of adding/opening ports.

"even by Microsoft standards"
Sub - standards?

@ Macaday,
"If you want to see why I often loathe the Win-promo-camp, just read the comments under this article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/12/apple-charges-fortune-memory

Idiots."

You're right, they are dumb. Do they not realize that we 'Mac fanboys' know the memory thru Apple is ridiculously overpriced and we have the intelligence to get it elsewhere and install our selves? They're dumb, so so dumb.