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Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-bit-of-this-a-little-bit-of-that dept.

UltimaGuy writes "This article is an excellent comparison between the features of Apple Tiger and Windows Vista Beta 1. The point it raises - 'Windows Vista Beta 1 is a much-needed demonstration that Microsoft can still churn out valuable Windows releases, after years of doubt. For Mac OS X users, however, Windows Vista Beta 1 engenders a sense of déjà vu."

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  1. Posted on OSNEWS.com yesterday by redwoodtree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not only will you get the news a day earlier on http://www.osnews.com/ but you'll also get a lot more interesting stuff that doesn't make it to /.

  2. Re:Vista is a total rip-off of Tiger... by Prophet+of+Nixon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Radeon 9200s and 7500s are ancient crap? I guess I should feel pretty bad having a Geforce2 on my XP machine and a 4MB ATI (now that is admittedly a piece of crap) in my laptop running 2000. I dunno though, they seem to do me fine, though I wish I had a bit better in the laptop from time to time. I have to admit that I've been seriously thinking of picking up something like a Radeon 9600 or such to play the second Deus Ex game and a few other things. The actual desktop computer is only about 3 years old, I just never bothered to get a new video card since I gutted the old computer when I put it together.

  3. Re:Not impressed by Tiger by iceanfire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have to say that I prefer microsoft desktop search (via the additional msn download) over GDS2 for the following reasons: 1. GDS has tons of bugs (ie. for some users it doesn't even index all of the files... ...look at the google desktop group for more info on this) 2. Google provides very little control (ie. there is no option to reindex the system, and it doesn't even tell you which files its currently indexing) 3. Clumsy interface, this is because they rely heavily on the browser (ie. when your serch results are presented you are not allowed to view the file/move the file/delete it/rename it... only open it). Microsft's plugs in well into the os. 4. ...there are plenty of more reasons but i'll stop now. Because of this, I believe they can pull off better search capabilities (along with fast searching) in longhorn/vista.