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Windows Vista and XP Head To Head
thefickler sends in an article comparing Windows Vista and Windows XP in the areas of security, home entertainment, GUI, parental controls, and networking. The author clearly believes that Vista wins across these categories.
waste of effort (tagging beta)
You have just received the Amish virus. Since we have no electricity or computers, you are on the honor system.
I agree with you, some slant is expected, and much worse things have been said. Strange that they left out of the other categories was how OSX stacks up... like:
Search: Mentioning spotlight being a year or so ahead of Vista search, with an upgrade due in a month
Flip: Expose being far far ahead (and more feature rich) than this "Flip" thing
Gadgets: wow... the timeline: Konfabulator invented them; Apple ripped Konfabulator; Google ripped Apple; Microsoft brings up the rear (Note that Google, Yahoo and Konfabulator released Windows version a while ago)
Firewall: OSX shipping with enterprise-grade industry standard iptables firewall for well over 5 years
Parental Controls: How Apple is releasing vista-like (hehe) parental controls at the same time as Vista's launch. Nice catch up.
User-based Security w/o defaulting to Admin user: OS X and Linux win by almost a decade
Anyway, I don't think it was all that bad of a review.
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