Vista vs. Leopard a Microsoft Perspective
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 1.12.2007
Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X Leopard was the inevitable clash of catalyzed by the operating system measuring contest between Microsoft and Apple.
From the position of the undisputed underdog of the operating system market, owning a share of just over 6%, according to statistics from Net Applications, Apple has constantly been comparing OS X with Windows and coming up on top. Released over half a year ahead of Leopard, Vista is now at almost 8% of the OS market, with Leopard just starting along, even though it indicated strong momentum from the get go, the Cupertino-based hardware company selling some 2 million copies in just the first weekend after the
release.
It is not in Microsoft's nature to publicly comment on its rival. In the summer of 2007, Chairman Bill Gates applauded Vista for an install base larger than all competitive products, taking a subtle shot at Apple. But the Redmond company failed to make available a Give Up on Leopard advertisement. Still, Microsoft employees did approach the subject, although not necessarily in their official roles with the company.
"There is one reason however why one should never compare Windows to MacOS like this: MacOS runs on closed hardware. Any technical person and any person with some common sense would agree that it's infinitely more difficult to run your software without glitches on an infinite number of hardware configurations compared to running it on just a small set of configs," revealed Hans Verbeeck, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft EMEA.
James Senior, Microsoft UK Partner Technical Specialist took a shot at Leopard's security: "A firewall that is off by default? No granularity to the user settings? Sounds like Leopard might not be as secure as people like to band around. We've been making security part of the development methodology for years now and the fruits of our labour are starting to pay off - we had the fewest vulnerabilities of all OS in the first 6 months after launch. My question is, does turning the firewall off by default count as a vulnerability or is it something worse?"
And Robert Hensing, from the Microsoft PSS Security Team wrote a blog post about "the trials and tribulations of a Leopard upgrade. (...) Now imagine having to release and test your OS and updates to support tons more hardware, on 3 different architectures (x86 / AMD64 / Itanium), in ~36 languages."
The conclusion seems to be but one. Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard are barely in the same league together. And as long as Apple has the advantage of building both the hardware and the software, Windows will always come in second place.
"Leopard will never be the new Windows. It will always be the OS that runs well (at least in most cases) on a handful of configurations with a limited set of applications to run. Still, it proves to be a good model for Apple and they get and deserve also praise for that from some who are happy to live with these constraints. And that's fine by me," Verbeeck added.
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Comments(13)
leopard underpinned by unix. how can you beat that!
i can say that a hacked version of leopard
runs nicely on my pentium 4 system so
unoffially the mac os hardware platform is not closed
man its almost as if theres a bunch of windows haters working at sofpedia. everyday
theres a new article knocking windows in some way.
unbelievable!
bots os's are completely different and work better at different things (as does even
linux). windows seems to be good for businesses and schools whereas mac is more fun and
entertaining in the home. linux is very configurable and for geeks. theya re all good for
something abit like what verbeek said at the end of that article.
only gay and lesbian enjoy it!
"it's infinitely more difficult to run your software without glitches on an infinite
number of hardware configurations compared to running it on just a small set of configs"
that is true.
but apple does that to force consumers into all apple
products and products of the other companies they work with. that's called a 'trust' or
an 'monopoly'.
lets take a look at it this way.
linux runs on just about
any hardware with compatibility that's far better than windows or leopard. so having
unlimited configurations with pc hardware and using linux os is actually the better
choice. i give m$ credit for trying to support such a large platform of devices and
hardware out there. of-course vista is going to have compatibility issues and problems
then. but leopard has just about as many issues and its developed for a closed platform.
more or less apple bites the cock a hell lot more just because their new os barely
supports a platform that was specifically built for it.
what are all the programmers
at apple idiot's?
with m$ half the time its not their fault; its the hardware
manufactures fault for developing poor driver support for their hardware.
that's why
linux works well; because most drivers for linux are built by really motivated programmers
in the linux community.
short answer is apple is just about as corrupt (not if
worse) as microsoft. but at-least microsoft does something with it's os line (like
supporting almost all hardware and software; or investing into the programming community)
last thing...fuck all you m$ hating turds. sure they may not be the nicest
company but the majority of the services in your lives exist because of that company.
"last thing" got me laughing.
everything you said is true, except that
the "savior of the world" thing was a little over the top.
too bad nobody is
stepping up to give m$ a run for the money.
a serious competition would be good for
all of us.
remember the commercial "when banks competes, you win!" i guess it applies here too :d
mac is the worst operating system in the entire world
stve jobs: we live without bill gates and you know the rest
vista is the best leaves mac in dust
i would not be a microsoft guinea pig, even if microsoft paid me!!!
much less pay
300$ or 400$ for a product in experimental stage and be a guinea pig for them.... no
way!!!
are you a microsoft guinea pig???? :)
i love the looks os leopard but if steve jobs could forget withholding the codes and
making his os available to hackers, he will take the whole market.
hackers
contribute to the fame of os. windows is popular because its been easier for hackers to
play with.
most tools on the net are for windows. thats my adivse to you jobs.
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By Computer Expert on 01.12.2007 - 12:12