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Apple Announces Tiger Release Date

Posted by Zonk on from the forward-down-forward/down-punch dept.

GatorMarc writes "Well, it's official. Tiger will be released into the wild on April 29th with more than 200 new features, including Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator, VoiceOver, Safari RSS, Core Audio, and Core Image." Additional commentary available on ThinkSecret and MacWorld.

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  1. Re:Apple envy by brontus3927 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Not to be a troll, but in 2001 after XP was finalized, MS sent all of it's developers for intensive security training, which can be seen in SP2. From what I saw of the alpha release that got leaked a few years ago, Longhorn is going to a very major update in the way Windows works.
    And is it really a bad thing that Microsoft has gone 4 years without foisting another OS on the public. XP has received a lot of updates in security and usability in that time, and they've all been free to anyone with a properly licensed copy of XP. Apple has released 4 versions of OS X in roughly the same time.

    Don't get me wrong, I think of Apple in a postive light generally. While it might not be the next computer I buy, a G5 PowerMac will be within the next three.

    I support Apple and love innovation, but what is wrong with issuing service packs?

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  2. Re:I use x86 PC myself... by Drakonian · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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  3. Re:Apple envy by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "the more I realise just how slow devopment on the Windows platform is"

    It's not slow. Longhorn is going to be the most substantial new Windows release since Windows 2000. It will be as different from Windows XP as Windows XP was from Windows NT 4.0.

    Unlike Apple, Microsoft isn't set on a 1.5-year release cycle.

    Apple's cycle is good for consumers, but as an IT profesional, it's easy to see that it's terrible for businesses. With Apple's cycle, we would have to upgrade our entire deployment to an entirely new OS every 1.5 years - or accept the fact that many new apps won't run on our older Mac OS.

    With Windows, the only significant upgrade in four years has been XP-SP2. Even that was largely transparent for the end user.

    Anything that changes on the desktop results in a slew of calls to my desk. With Windows XP, you can essentially configure the desktop so that it looks - and works - almost exactly like Windows 2000. That's a huge savings in time and labor.

    "Momentum" isn't the only reason that Windows is popular in the enterprise. Microsoft understands how to create a new OS that integrates with our existing infastructure and applications. Apple's getting there, but each new OS X release is still a drastic departure from the previous release.