Re: Apple for the teacher.


Philip Homburg wrote:
In article <byDWf.227922$fe6.210841@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Matt Clara <hey.wood.y@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Based on a single sample (i.e. you have problems with just one piece of
software) it would be much more logical to conclude there's a problem with
the software than with the operating system.

Well, all the reports suggest that it only breaks with SP2. You can't just
go and introduce new features in 'service packs' that cause these kinds of
problems.

Of course, there were all those Panther applications that would not run
on Tiger. And there are numerous applications that would run on Tiger
but on minor updates such as 10.4.3. So Windows definitely does not
have a monopoly on updates that will not run applications released
prior to the update.

In fact, Aperture 1.1 was supposed to be released in March, but it
apparently has been put on hold to make sure that release is compatible
with OS X 10.4.6, which is about to be released. If Apple is concerned
that Aperture will not run on the new OS X update, what does that say
about third party applications? Here we go again....

Still, at least there are very few applications (with the notable
exception of Symantec's Internet Security software) that will actually
cause a kernel panic on OS X (the gray screen of death), they are known
and easily avoided. Windows is much more likely to crash from an
unrecoverable general protection fault (the blue screen of death).

And at the rate that Vista (originally scheduled for release in 2003)
keeps getting pushed back, you have to wonder if Microsoft is ever
going to get this monster to run. At the very least, Leopard will be
out before Vista is. Perhaps that is what Microsoft is waiting for: to
see if there are any new features in Leopard that they will want to
include in Vista. :-) (Even if Microsoft OS X, er, Vista's copying of
Tiger's features is incomplete and poorly implemented -- and it still
will not be as stable.) In fact, Microsoft has admitted that at least
60% of Vista will have to be re-written before it is released. By that
time Apple (or whatever they are calling themselves by then) will have
just about run out of names for their OS and we will be installing
updates calling themselves Ragdoll Kitty or Puff.

In the meantime you can see Microsoft's demo of Vista's features here:

http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-introducing-the-real-windows-vista/

If it all looks vaguely familiar to Mac users.... :-)

I especially like the third demo on the page, where the Microsoft guy
talks about iPhoto, er, Vista's built in photo management tool. It is
worth watching just to see the old photos of Bill Gates, but all three
demos are hysterically funny.

.

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