Perception vs. Reality: Vista vs. Leopard With a White House Spin

Climbing to the top of the charts last week was a book titled, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. The stated purpose of this book is to showcase how politics in Washington turned a presidency that started as revolutionary into one that was a disaster.

published on Monday, the 2. June 2008, macnewsworld

?The Mac has won?

Farhad Manjoo (Salon) makes a compelling case. ?If we?re going just by what?s better?the ages-old Mac-vs.-PC debate is over. Long over. Yell it from the rooftops; The Mac has won.? Now?s the right time ?to buy an Apple computer,? proclaims Manjoo. ?Indeed, it?s been that time for the past five years.? After all, ?its Macintosh business is now in league with that of the biggest PC companies in the world.? And ?everyone who?s used it agrees that Leopard, the operating system that Apple released late last month, is to its chief rival, Microsoft?s Windows Vista, roughly as Richard Wagner is to Richard Marx.? Manjoo even takes the opportunity to ?put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC. In fact,? he says, ?it?ll cost you less.?

published on Wednesday, the 7. November 2007, apple-hot-news

Vista vs. Leopard Update, Disaster Preparedness, Microsoft and Facebook, Product of the Week

Last week was one of the busiest of the year. California, where I live, was mostly in flames, and that had me thinking about what we need to do to prepare for a catastrophic event. One of the most liked features in the new Leopard operating system from Apple -- coincidentally -- is Time Machine, which could be a life saver. Let's also talk about how that launch is doing.

published on Monday, the 29. October 2007, macnewsworld

Leopard vs. Vista, Brazil vs. Cisco, True Security Horror Story, Product of the Week

We are on final countdown to the launch of Mac OS X Leopard. You'll see lots of feature head-to-head pieces start to ramp up, but the real difference is that Vista is from an engineering-driven company while Leopard is from a marketing-driven company -- and that is worth exploring this week.

published on Monday, the 22. October 2007, macnewsworld

Leopard Vs. Vista

Rockgod writes to point us to an ongoing series of articles, "Leopard vs. Vista," by Daniel Eran. The latest is part 4, Naked Sales, and it's a meditation on hardware without Windows, Apple's strategy of hardware-software integration, and the dissatisfactions that arise from the creative tension between Microsoft and hardware manufacturers. (The earlier articles in the series are linked form this one.) From the article: "The vast majority of PCs come with Windows pre-installed, and actually can't be sold without it. Leading PC hardware makers can't freely advertise PCs sold without Windows, or with an alternative OS such as Linux, without having to pay Microsoft significantly more for every other OEM license they ship. That's why all name brand PCs prominently repeat their own version of the cult-like phrase 'Dell recommends Windows XP Professional,' as if there were a choice in the matter and they thought it would be helpful to provide some guidance... Apple's current Get a Mac advertising campaign doesn't compare Mac OS X to Windows, it compares the complete experience of a Mac with that of a PC. After all, Windows is only half of what's wrong with the PC as a product."

published on Saturday, the 18. November 2006, apple-slashdot

Linux vs. Windows Vista vs. Leopard

I attended the Linspire-sponsored Linux Desktop Summit last week, where the discussion included reasons the folks who build PCs don't want to do Linux. Indeed, some of the commentary at the event related to Microsoft and its vulnerability when it comes to large business and government accounts.

published on Monday, the 1. May 2006, macnewsworld