Tiger's 200 New Features

An anonymous reader writes "If this hasn't already been posted, Apple set up a page listing, by software section, all of the new features for OS X.4, or Tiger. Given that every upgrade touts over a hundred features, it is interesting to see all of the enhancements to this upgrade to see what adopters get out of the box. There are a lot which are tweaks, some new non-Spotlight oriented features and a few that are interesting, mostly security related features. 2 words: stealth mode. "

Comments

Re:Coincidence?

[justsomebody]

Coincidence?

Actualy it never happened. M$ schedules are moved back and forth with their progress on .Net and WinFS (which depends on .Net progress). WinFS has nowhere near such little goals as Spotlight (remember Spotlight is desktop utility, while M$ is trying to make WinFS client/server capable).

I'm neither WinFanBoy nor MacFanBoy (I hate both). Own G5 and G4. Own windows too. But avoid them if only possible.

Features like WinFS are being on M$ table much longer then from 10.3 to 10.4. It's Apple who is copying not M$.

M$ has promised this feature back in 2002 (if we forget Cairo failure). Oulook can print calendars and compose HTML mail. And spotlight is the only real change in Tiger. Safari RSS? I still think it is better to keep RSS separated from browser. Tried this feature in Tiger preview and it has't converted me. I still use liferea on linux and freereader (haven't tried thunderbirds feature of this) on windows (every time once a month that I boot in Windows).

Now name another, that is not present in XP (or can be added with completely free software). Almost everything there is a free replacement. So who is copying?

God, I can't believe I was commenting favorable to M$??? Well, that's a first one for me:)

Re:Typical

[mp3phish]

Shall I count the number of Mac-related articles that include the obligatory smart-ass line indicating the authors disdain for everything Mac?

Please do. It would be interesting to show the number of pro-apple articles posted vs the number of anti-apple articles. You can probably count the latter on one hand in the past year or so. saying that slashdot doesn't have an apple bias is like saying macaddict doesn't have an apple bias. The editors cater to apple enthusiasts and fanboys to gain readership from one of the more outspoken tech crowds. The more apple flamebait they post the more hits they get. Thus their bottom line gets bigger.