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Tiger really does shine. Wonder how Leopard will do?. I just can't wait!!
Like the Apple pie symbols

No argument here about OS X. I switched about two years ago with the Mini, and although I do like to know what's going on under the hood, Windows tells the user too much about the inconsequential stuff and too little about the important stuff.

@ MacAngus

Totally. Every Windows user I know can tell me how to fix the registry and DLLs, but grandma can use a Mac for years and still ask "What's UNIX?"

You can choose ... or you can stop. Completely. You already chose? Tough titty. Choose some more.

When I drive, I like to look at the scenery, enjoy the music, and maybe think about things that need to be done. That is OSX

When I was young and po (like Kenny's parents) I drove a beat up '66 Chevelle. No breaks-had to use the emergency break-no radio, exhaust busted at the manifold(couldn't heard music anyhow), no tail lighs, which was a cop magnet, but it was all I had. That was Windows. Loud and dangerous.

I do kinda wish I still had that Chevelle, though. The guy who bought it fixed it up real nice and cherry.

Read the whole article everyone. It is devastating.

Great article. Nice to know the Vista still doesn't get it.

One of the most annoying things about Windows is that basic functions like cut and paste operate differently in different programs.

In Excel, although it can sometimes remember multiple copies, often it loses the information. In another program, certain items can only be copied by right clicking.

What OSX is great about, is limiting the programmer to certain approaches for simple tasks like these.

The end result is that we all know how to cut and paste in any program.

@MacAngus

Time to learn Unix buddy!

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ltigerunix/

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxtigerunix/

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490407/

Good reading -:)

That was Windows. Loud and dangerous.

Like Windows, a Chevelle tended to have parts fall off, and needed very regular service so it'd run at all.

Unlike Windows, a Chevelle was fast, fun, and could land the babes even if was old and beat up. Try that with a PC.

It's rather like dealing with an overexcited Boy Scout...who has a lifetime supply of chocolate-covered espresso beans...

Like Steve Ballmer? Or Clippy? Or that big stupid frantic butterfly clown from the old MSN TV commercials? Or someone who "helps" by doing everything they can to get in the way?

Windows is very eager to tell you what's going on. Constantly. Plug something in, and you get a message. Unplug something and you get a message.

OMFG, that crap is still in Vista?!?!

That is one of my LEAST favorite Windows "features". It's like "No shit Sherlock, I know I plugged a camera in! Just make it work without the drama, like Mac does".

Dialog boxes that pop up by themselves had better be important. Nobody likes crap-that-shouldn't-be-necessary throwing itself in the way. Apple gets it, MS doesn't.

Good article. Someone who gets the difference between User Authenticaion vs. User Annoyance.

Authentication. Can you say Authentication? Thanks. I knew you could.

“In a nutshell, Vista vs. Mac OS X is Revolution vs. Evolution.”

Disagree, rather “In a nutshell, Vista vs. Mac OS X is Stagnation vs. Evolution.”

Anyone who has had to use XP for any length of time will know about the Desktop Cleanup Wizard which pops up every so often and tells you that since you haven't used certain icons on your desktop for so long, it's just dying to "help" you out by clearing them off. I'm not incompetent and if I wanted them off, they'd be gone by now. Classic example of Microsoft's "helpfulness".

Totally agree with the whole thing about things working properly and getting annoying messages. When I plug in my USB thumb drive into a PC, if it's not working is the only time I want to be told about it. The fact you discovered USB hardware, while certainly miraculous at times, doesn't mean I want to hear about it. Sheesh, you want a pat on the back and a cookie? Plug my device into my Powerbook and the only notification I have to receive is the icon showing up on my desktop. Far less intrusive and far more useful. Perhaps some of you know more examples, but I primarily use my Mac for a reason: because it's not Windows.

My "analysis" weighed Windows in the balance, and found it wanting.

Random thoughts from a MAC user:

A bad day on a MAC is better than a good day on Windows.

Friends don't let friends use Windows!

There are people who use Windows, and then there are intelligent people.

Good article. I wonder how much of this is getting through to Enterprise users. I think Leopard will introduce some of the low level features that may open some of those eyes.

InformationWeek is being a bit too heavy handed, I think. All the problems, drawbacks, snags, inconsistencies, and ambiguities that Welch has identified with Vista will all be solved with Microsoft releasing Service Packs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

In some ways the XP to Vista transition reminds me of the MacOS 9 to MacOS X transition. You may recall that Apple had great difficulty in its OX transition plans in the mid-90's. It took about five years or so to release MacOS X (v10.0), and about another year or so to bring it close to prime time status.

One big difference is that Apple started this process about six years before M$, and thus has a large headstart in maturing its next generation OS. Additionally, Apple chose to make a clean break with its older Classic OS heritage to achieve its objectives of a powerful, stable and secure operating system with a growth path to the future. M$ was unable to execute on most of its plans for major internal upgrades in Vista and basically settled for a warmed-over version of XP with a few additional security features.

I predict that the MacOS will continue to evolve in ways beneficial to the user while Vista will stagnate much like XP with a few "service packs" to add some features and patch a bunch of problems.

A MAC user? MAC = Media Access Contoller - typically that is an Ethernet interface

Mac is the short name for Macintosh, a computer made by Apple Computer.

MAC is what Windoze trolls call a Mac. From your nice comments, I can see you are not a Windoze troll. I offer these comments as a way of welcoming you to the neighborhood and helping you to fit in.

Welcome, friend!

King Mel:

Sorry, yer highness, but with thinking like that you have been deposed and banished to the wastelands of ignorance. OS X (Open source/BSD/Next Step) is a radical departure from OS 9 (Close source/Classic). Vista is another slapdash compilation of the same digital garbage that comprises Windows XP and 2000 (Closed source/NT).

One word; Tablet

Chip: That's three.

OS X will be licensed. Leopard will compete with Vista in the wild. Watch out world.

Oh boy, bless us be! Yet another soul that really gets it. Tiger has been a joy, it's only recently that I've felt the need to stroke a new kitty. Can't hardly wait!

... or else their work with google will open up significant applications that work primarily through the internet (instead of through the OS), allowing anyone to use Apple software on their computers...

I'm telling you, something's going on here. Things are about to get blown wide open.

> In some ways the XP to Vista transition reminds me of the MacOS 9 to MacOS X transition.

No way. Apple basically abandoned the Mac OS 9 codebase and rebooted with Mac OS X. Microsoft is just patching the same old Windows codebase. It was trying for something a bit more revolutionary, which is why it took five years, but that original project was mostly abandoned. What survived as the released Windows Vista is something that was mostly slapped together during the last year.

What it does remind me of instead, is the Mac OS 7 to Mac OS 8/9 transition. Apple was working on a thing called "Copeland" (Apple's "Longhorn" disaster). It was supposed to be the next revolutionary step for the Mac OS. But it got mired in its own complexity and too-high goals, just as the original Longhorn did. In the end, it was cancelled outright, and some of the superficial elements (such as the "platinum" interface) survived in an enhanced and patched up version of Mac OS 7, which Apple released as Mac OS 8, 8.1, 8.5, 8.6, and later Mac OS 9.x. That's Windows Vista, almost exactly following in Apple's footsteps, even when Apple blows it.

Why does my ass smell like breath?

I'm sick of comparisons of OS X to Vista, it robs us of criticism of the former. OS X ain't perfect, and Vista is completely irrelevant to this user. The Finder is still not as snappy as OS 9 for chrissakes, and the ability of the OS to fix itself is suspect as far as I'm concerned. iTunes now takes seconds to read the library whereas earlier versions just launched ready to go [bloat?]. SONY took their eye off the ball in hardware because of their content business. Apple's content business shouldn't be allowed to impinge on the user experience.

Vista is a distraction.

ken1w, spot on.

That said, that last Vista image says it all - as obscure and stupid a dialog box I've ever seen.

Nice comments from an author who clearly isn't even a novice Mac User. I make this claim because he was so wrong about you need "6 clicks to find yopur IP address in MacOS". It takes only 2 clicks:-

System Preferences icon > Network icon.

Even if you don't know what you're doing it will only take a novice user 3 actions. You're going to click System Preferences > Type "IP" into Search > then click on the highlighted Network icon.

So as nice as his comments were, I disagree that Tiger was not a revolution. He didn't mention how Tiger has revolutionised desktop search and changed the way we user our Mabs in far more meaningful ways than Vista has vis-a-vis XP.

That was "Macs" not "Mabs". Sorry about the typo. It reminds me of the "Moops" joke in the Seinfeld "bubble boy" episode!

HAHA, if you type IP into spotlight, 'Network' appears (albeit a bit further down the list behind iphoto etc), and when clicke clicked on displayed the IP address of your Mac.

So, 1 click - Apple+Space, type IP, hit Network when it appears.