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Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1
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."
Word processing?
Yup, Wordpad is included. For bonus points it sports a new UI although it hasn't changed since Windows 98.
Financial stuff?
Yup, Calculator.
Photo & image manipulation (Paint prog?)
Yup, MSPaint.
Spreadsheets?
Um, no.
Desktop publishing?
Wordpad.
Multimedia editing / DVD authoring & burning?
OMFG no! You pirate scum. You think we want to allow folks to say, videotape their TV set with a camcorder and then burn the results to DVD?
Webpage authoring / editing?
Notepad.
The real tipping point comes when you do refresh your hardware, whether it's due to an OS upgrade or otherwise. Why shouldn't Mac OS X (especially when it's on Intel) be a direct competitor to Windows at that point in time?
I especially expect people on the fence to consider buying Intel Macs when they are available. They can keep their existing Windows installation, and dual boot to Mac OS X. It makes it much easier to migrate a piece at a time, instead of in one huge shift (expense, software, learning the ins and outs, etc).
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.
You use iPhoto? That disqualifies you as expert. It's not like no one's ever done that sort of automatic image manipulation without using a mac/automator after all. You can do all that within image processing apps (even on a mac).
Good to know you're an expert on future MS and Apple OS products as well.
Calculator.app is next to useless. Apple needs to resurrect the old Graphing Calculator, the one that used to be shipped with every Mac from 1994 until OS X. It's
I almost mentioned Grapher, but to be honest, it's even worse than Calculator. Maybe it's more capable, but the interface is total shit, and it's certainly nowhere near as capable as Graphing Calculator is/used to be.