Comments on: Bootcamp 1.2 Vista Compatible – Proves Apple OS X Leopard is on time?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:11:29 +0000

@CoryC: I guess the agreement that Apple made with KDE regarding Safari was that they would share any advancements that they make with the KDE team. However, the last I heard several years have passed and Apple hasn’t given up a single piece of code.

@Parth: I can’t really vouch for what you’re saying because I don’t have much experience with Macs. I have used them on and off quite a bit on computers that I don’t own and there wasn’t anything that overly impressed me enough to switch.

By: Parth

Parth — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:55:25 +0000

Thanks god, now that full Vista support is out in Bootcamp 1.2…all these nonsense talks about Leopard being delayed because of Vista support will come to an end. Its not like I’m personally ever going to use Vista, but I just use XP 1% of the time for gaming purposes. Its OS X all the way @ 99% usage. Since all games work on XP as well, faster even…I don’t see the need for Vista, and besides OS X is still better in terms of functionality, ease of use, and IMO even graphically better and efficient (because its not overkill on your entry level video cards you get with 95% of Vista PC’s.)

By: CoryC

CoryC — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:11:52 +0000

Iâ€™m also very impressed that Apple doesnâ€™t get plagued with years of delays like Microsoft had with Vista. I donâ€™t know what the difference would beâ€¦is it because Apple just has better programmers or is it because Microsoft has a larger user base to worry about pleasing as well as a large range of hardware and software that they have to support? I donâ€™t think anyone really knows the answer, but maybe Microsoft will have everything straightened out for their next Windows release.

Keep in mind that Microsoft writes every line of code for Windows while Apple writes only a portion of the code for Mac OS X. Apple start with open source Unix and goes from there.

As I understand it, Apple violates several license agreements because of this. Safari is based on the open source browser Konqueror. Under the GPL license, any changes made to the source code must be made available to the public but Apple doesn't make any of Safari code available even though they have repeatedly promised to do so.