Comment I don't think this guy has used Leopard or Vista (Score 2, Insightful) 734
I've had Vista Premium 32bit since it was released. I use Vista Business 64bit all day, every day at work. I've had Leopard since the third ADC beta release and am currently running 10.5.1.
Every time I restart Vista at least 2 of the Media Center services crash on startup. After restarting them 2-3 times each they tend to stay running until the next time I restart Vista.
After years of trying Microsoft has successfully destroyed Windows Explorer. It doesn't update directory contents regularly. It doesn't have a "up one directory" button. Seriously? It's a file manager not a web browser. Let me have a up one dir button, please. Vista networking is slow, unreliable and the smallest configuration task is hidden behind 20 levels of pretty glass bars.
Leopard on the other hand is faster and more stable than Tiger ever was. The networking picks up windows, linux and afp file shares more reliably and faster than Tiger. Spotlight is faster and seems much more responsive. The user interface does have useless new features. New features that you're free to ignore. Stacks is a waste of time. Time Machine doesn't have a tremendous amount of value to me. The dock and menu bar are translucent now. Obviously, these new features draw value away from OS X.
What draws value away from Vista is the fact that tons of software and hardware still doesn't work with Vista a year after it's release.
I'll take useless new features and system stability over bad hardware/software support and the dumbing down of user interface components.
Every time I restart Vista at least 2 of the Media Center services crash on startup. After restarting them 2-3 times each they tend to stay running until the next time I restart Vista.
After years of trying Microsoft has successfully destroyed Windows Explorer. It doesn't update directory contents regularly. It doesn't have a "up one directory" button. Seriously? It's a file manager not a web browser. Let me have a up one dir button, please. Vista networking is slow, unreliable and the smallest configuration task is hidden behind 20 levels of pretty glass bars.
Leopard on the other hand is faster and more stable than Tiger ever was. The networking picks up windows, linux and afp file shares more reliably and faster than Tiger. Spotlight is faster and seems much more responsive. The user interface does have useless new features. New features that you're free to ignore. Stacks is a waste of time. Time Machine doesn't have a tremendous amount of value to me. The dock and menu bar are translucent now. Obviously, these new features draw value away from OS X.
What draws value away from Vista is the fact that tons of software and hardware still doesn't work with Vista a year after it's release.
I'll take useless new features and system stability over bad hardware/software support and the dumbing down of user interface components.
