Oliver Rist, an editor at PC Magazine, decided to take a new perspective on the who Vista sucks theme going around. Normally I just pass right by these articles, but his really caught my attention by saying that Leopard is the New Vista. The article, to say the least, is hilarious. Checkout my favorite parts of the article:
What makes it worse is this convoluted argument that my Apple friends give me: They’re more upset at Microsoft on account of it being in perpetual service pack limbo because Vista was supposed to be a ground-up redesign, whereas Leopard is really just a juicy point release. That makes zero sense to me. As far as I’m concerned, they both suck.
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For Leopard, the sad bundled app-as-feature is Time Machine. To hear Mac moonies tell it, this is the best thing to happen to backup since the letter b. In reality, however, it sucketh and it sucketh huge. Okay, the screen looks like Star Wars. That’s cool in an I-want-to-stay-a-virgin kind of way.
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Okay, I probably had a little too much coffee this morning, but Leopard really is just one big popped balloon of disappointment. Let’s get it straight, however: I’m not any more against Leopard than I am against Vista. Both of them got too much wrong. I’ll close with a little tidbit for that pudgy PC guy in the Apple commercials who’s so sad because his users are “downgrading” to XP. Well, maybe they are—I know I did. But I’m writing this on an XP workstation right now because my Mac is busy reinstalling Tiger. Leopard can keep its glitzy crash-prone spots. I’ll stick with the OS that really “just works”—for now.
Having not tried Leopard myself I can’t criticize many of the aspects that Oliver does in his article, but it was entertaining to read nonetheless. I guess what we can take out of the article is that all operating systems suck when they first come out?
Leopard is the New Vista [PC Magazine]
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Maybe Software development has become like TV - too many execs running it and not enough actual creative artists. I suspect a lot, if not all of the things that suck in Vista and Leopard are the result of execs who have no clue about design.
So, isnt this obvious? these OSes are newborns…granted they could have spent more time on making them “better,” but then everyone would continue bashing how Microsoft delays and delays (strange how I barely saw any bashing on Apple about putting off OS X Leopard after they deliberately picked on Microsoft and promised they would not delay Leopard; sorry, had to be said). Anyway, all these two need is time, and as I said many times before, I have been on Vista after XP completely crapped out on me (due to my own fault, so no bashing Microsoft on that one), and Vista has worked properly and has had not nearly as many problems as I have heard coming from both sides of the fence (MS and Mac).
What about the not-so-recent Ubuntu 7.10 upgrade? I didn’t hear any complaints about this upgrade, but that’s probably because of the size of Linux’s market share…
I actually had a few problems with the initial upgrade process, with errors saying it could not upgrade during the upgrade install, but now it works fine. I am still new to Linux, so I can not really give you an in depth review.
That is true. These software companies are probably taking fewer risks than they would if it was up to the designers, but they also have untold numbers of users that they need to make sure they satisfy. And I think the general consensus among users is that big change is bad.
Plus we don’t actually know how long Apple was working on this operating system, so we can’t exactly calculate how long it took them to make it either.
I don’t think the Ubuntu upgrade was “big” enough where it would create a lot of issues and anger people. That’s one of the benefits of having a 6-month release cycle…people are able to identify problems before they get so out of hand that it becomes unsolvable.