Comments on: Leopard ships October 26 with 300+ new features – what about Vista?

By: Leopard: 300 new features. Vista: 100 rehashes : insignificant thoughts

Leopard: 300 new features. Vista: 100 rehashes : insignificant thoughts — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:51:54 +0000

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By: Tim Hill

Tim Hill — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:05:33 +0000

re: Bob; I didn’t find this microsoft bashing; I think you may have been a touch sensitive on this one. Looking at the Mac OS X features; the layout and description of the features is very easy to read and understand. Can’t say much for Vista from what i’ve heard and read, its resource intensive and doesn’t seem to be so state of the art.
But still Apple prices just put it too expensive at moment…

By: Bob McBobson

Bob McBobson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:17:57 +0000

Honestly i’m tired of this mac shill. You’ve lost a long term reader with the recent downfall in quality of post, especially with all the microsoft bashing, which I am not here to read about, there’s enough of that elsewhere on the ‘net. Plus I agree with the others above, after browsing that list your argument is completely moot, most of those features either have been in windows for yonks or are such tiny little “features” that they aren’t worth mentioning and I’m not sure why they have been so.

By: David Clark

David Clark — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:44:28 +0000

Most of the features introduced by Apple has already been introduced by Microsoft previously. (ie: Thumbnails of pictures as a file’s icon in finder. Explorer has done that for quite some time. And “time machine” — Windows has had an in-house backup solution for forever and a day.)

By: Dylan Bennett

Dylan Bennett — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:53:50 +0000

A feature of Vista I absolutely /love/ is the ability to set volume levels on a per-application basis. What an amazing feature. I love that I can set the volume of my IM app (Trillian) to 10% of the volume I listen to music at, and turn the volume for Firefox /off/ so that unwanted sounds/music from Flash don’t intrude on my ears.

What would be a better list, I think, would be new features that are in Leopard that /aren’t/ in Vista, and vice-versa. Localizations? Application based firewall? Signed applications? IM app invisibility? Set default IM application? Printer support? New look? None of those would make such a list.

By: Coffee

Coffee — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:09:51 +0000

Way to go through the list and find that one, Griffith. Of course there are some purely sales-pitched ‘features’. They’re selling the OS.

Some of Apple’s ‘300′ features include 6 font features. yes, fonts. You know, how we spend hours worrying about and installing fonts. Thank God Apple has done all the tedious font work for us.

and you didn’t have invisibility in iChat? almost EVERY video chat program has invisibility. But that’s a feature of the OS? and clearing your chat is another feature? and more smileys? You can get to 300 quick by counting all these ‘features’.

The sales pitch rages throughout both of these OS feature guides. Leopard is going to be a killer OS, for sure, but don’t pick off a single ‘feature’ and infer that all the features in Vista are available in XP, because I assure you, they are not. Your friend simply isn’t using the new features, he’s using it like he used XP. Very scientific poll, though, thanks.

I do completely agree on Vista hogging resources. I’ve tweaked mine down to a reasonable level, but it is crazy.

By: Osborne

Osborne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:54:52 +0000

I could actually “see and use” features like:

Descriptive Error Messages
Japanese Language Support
Parental Control
Folder Sharing
New Fonts
Movie Previews
Turn Off All Alarms
Hide Local Video
More Smileys
Polish Localization
Archive Mailbox
Wikipedia Content Filter
Preview Controls for PDFs
Clock Overlay on any Screen Saver
Empty Trash Button

Wow, Apple certaintly isn’t reaching to come up with this list of awesome features like Microsoft doess.