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Why Panther May Tear Up Longhorn

Posted by pudge on from the because-it-doesn't-exist dept.

Sophrosyne writes "Microsoft Watch has presented an article on Longhorn, which is due not before 2005, and compares it with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), which may be released this September. The article touches on some of the areas where Windows is ahead in operating system design and technologies, as well as how Panther plans to compete. Included in Microsoft Watch's article were links to a Extreme-Tech article on Desktop compositing, and 3D User Interfaces. It also contains videos of Longhorn's 3D Quartz-like user interface in action." If processor power is so important, why are we so willing to waste it on making windows do funny things when we move them around? Just wondering.

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  1. I think I missed something.. by cfadam · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ok, so Apple is still playing catch-up with XP in 2003, nothing new there. All this article does it point out the shortcomings of OS X and hint at some things that could be fixed. Is this a slow news day or something?

  2. Re:Hum... by shaitand · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Oh, and Apple won't break the MS monopoly, no matter what eye-candy they come up with. Linux/BSD will - because it's free, looks good enough, and it gets the job done."

    Don't forget Microsoft OWNS a rather big hunk of apple... for some reason people seem to forget that microsoft bailed apple out when it was on the verge of going out of business. Then apple came out with the imac and the biggest selling personal computer of all time and has continued mostly on it's own since.

    Microsoft can't buy out linux, microsoft can't crash the linux economy... there is nobody to bribe, nobody to buy out, nobody to corrupt.

  3. If the quality of the OS is any indication... by jo_ham · · Score: -1, Troll

    In 2005:

    Mac OS X 10.4 will be called "Pussy"

    Windows Longhorn will be called "Yeast Infection"