Actually, WebKit is considered to be superior to both the generic Mozilla/SeaMonkey engine and the fork of it used by Firefox. It was the first engine to pass the Acid2 test and I personally find it to be considerably faster than Firefox.
Kent: Mr Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.
Custom interfaces are confusing and make the graphical interface of the host operating system hideous as a whole. I'm baffled by Apple's decision to progressively wreck their formerly beautiful operating system. What a shame.
If you'd bothered to follow the case from the beginning, you'd understand why so many people are protesting against this series of outrageous decisions.
The United States have, through massive exaggeration and dishonesty, virtually abducted a British citizen in order to make him a scapegoat on which to blame the exceptional lack of security in their government computer systems.
Supporters of open-source software are prohibited from criticising Vaporsoft-- er, Microsoft for telling an entire series of spectacular lies for over more than a decade unless they themselves create equivalents, or rather, implementations of Microsoft's wet dreams?
Microsoft and their minions are the biggest and funniest joke in the world.
What's ridiculous is that it seems to have been written in Java! They've somehow used a platform-independent language to create a single-platform applet.
The fact that Microsoft Word can export documents as plain text is evidence that Microsoft are are giving false reasoning for their refusal to add OpenDocument support to their products.
This article is an excellent comparison between the features of Apple Tiger and Windows Vista Beta 1.
Meanwhile, in reality...
This article is a terrible and biased comparison between the implemented features of Apple Tiger and the partially-implemented and proposed features of Windows Vista.
Features like instant desktop search are great for any operating system, but they only truly "matter" when the mainstream market is using them. And today, that only happens with Windows and its user base of several hundred million active users.
He thinks that every innovation in any operating system except Windows is irrelevant.
If you go back and look at the WWDC 2004 keynote video, you'll see Steve Jobs demo virtually every single major new feature in Tiger. A year later, when the product actually shipped, little had changed and nothing major was added.
He claims to be comparing Windows Vista to Mac OS, yet he is writing about business practice. Additionally, he fails to mention is that most of the features which Microsoft promised to include in Windows Vista were abandoned.
In short, though there are some bizarre inconsistencies in the Tiger UI, it is far more elegant looking than Aero in Windows Vista Beta 1.
This conclusion has been drawn without any supporting evidence. Thurrott even mostly critises Windows XP and Vista in the leading paragraphs.
Compared to Windows, the OS X Tiger Finder presents more traditional file system views. There are no "special shell folders" as in Windows per se, but rather specific folders under your Home folder...
I think shell folders are pointless for these reasons:
Many cannot be renamed or moved
Users cannot easily create their own shell folders
Shell folders are given labels different to their filesystem names
Making exceptions in the filesystem confuses users
By comparison, Windows Vista Beta 1 presents you with a well-rounded list of stocked, pre-made virtual folders--such as All Documents, All Pictures and Videos, and All Music--which, in essence, replace similar special shell folders in previous Windows versions.
I think criticising the lack of pre-created folders in/Users/Shared is extremely weak.
Tiger does however have a hard-to-find "Spotlight Comments" section the Get Info box for any document in which you can add keywords or phrases as desired.
Only an idiot could not find the Spotlight Comments field. The Help Topic stating its location is returned when searching Mac Help for "Spotlight".
Microsoft thinks this feature is so powerful that it will change the way that people access data on their systems. I think they might be right.
The average Windows user, who cannot even secure their computer, will not spend hours adding and revising their metadata.
That is, a Word document icon will visually resemble the first page of the Word document it represents. A graphics file visually represents the underlying graphic. And so on....And there's nothing like it, per se, in Tiger.
This is also an extremely weak point. I'm certain the reason for Apple not implementing this is because a standardised selection of distinctive icons allow humans to identify file types faster.
Even in this early Beta 1 release, Windows Vista far outstrips the data file visualization and organizational features in Mac OS X Tiger.
if some linux desktop flavor were as widely popular as windows, do you honestly think it would be any different with a new wonder worm every year?
Yes
you linux zealots are honestly going to tell me that some badly written linux app that people widely adapt isn't going to be fodder for these guys as well if the application and the os had as much exposure as windows?
As far as I'm aware, there is no popular software for Linux which is as poorly developed as Microsoft's software. Additionally, open source operating systems employ a variety of methods to boost security, most of which are enforced by their kernels.
if linux were up at bat instead of microsoft in the popularity contest, linux would be striking out just as much as microsoft.
According to Netcraft, Microsoft have only 20.43% of the Web server market share as of August 2005. Can you recall there recently being any worm capable of compromising the dominant non-Windows servers?
does the linux world have a similar muscular attack response system?
I wouldn't call Microsoft's response to the worms exploiting the MS05-039 bug "muscular". Judging from the eWeek article, it seemed desperate and entirely improvised. I think Microsoft's actions reveal their awareness of the embarrassing fact that their software is primarily developed for, and used by the under-trained and inexperienced.
Patches for security vulnerabilities discovered in open source software are generally created and released much faster than Microsoft.
Open source communities properly educate their users about computer security, which helps prevent computers administrated by such users from being compromised.
Open source software has sensible default settings, which helps prevent the host computer from being compromised.
additionally, what happens is that over time, because of it's exposure, microsoft actually gets pretty darn well patched from all of the really scary expoits out there
Unfortunately, Microsoft's software designers and engineers just create more vulnerabilities due to their world-famous stupidity.
I said that Windows has no unique features, and the features it does have are poorly implemented.
Therefore, I think the main reason for people choosing Windows in the corporate environment is due to laziness or ignorance.
My point is that the lazy and ignorant don't apply patches.
(By the way, I'm a programmer who previously used Windows, from version 3.1 to XP, over a period of approximately 9 years. I've also tried Fedora Core. I'm now using Mac OS.)
We're not ignoring the fact that the latest versions of Windows are immune to the worm when updated; we're discussing why major companies fail to apply such security updates.
It seems you are the one who is conveniently ignoring things.
Everything it offers also exists in operating systems such as FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS (with an extremely higher quality of design and implementation).
Its use creates significant problems for everyone, due to bad design and programming.
Microsoft encourage (or at least, fail to dissolve) a subculture of end-users and developers who are guilty of ignoring Web standards, developing generally poor software, and refusing to learn how to secure their computers.
Therefore, I think the main reason that such companies use Windows is because they are ignorant, lazy, or both.
It would be easier to understand if they didn't make a nonsensical analogy between information in the context of quantum mechanics, and information in the context of human memories.
*SMACK!* Stop trying to make quantum mechanics cool, and make me multicoloured cola!
We're told that yet another feature won't be present in Windows Vista by someone who seems to think that there won't ever be a virus capable of penetrating Vista's "security". These Microsoft guys crack me up!
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Thank you for explaining something which you obviously have absolutely no real understanding of.
Funny, because I don't remember having to download Gecko separately to compile SeaMonkey or Firefox.
Actually, WebKit is considered to be superior to both the generic Mozilla/SeaMonkey engine and the fork of it used by Firefox. It was the first engine to pass the Acid2 test and I personally find it to be considerably faster than Firefox.
Kent: Mr Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.
You couldn't "commander" my computer unless I gave my web browser administrator privileges, and why would anyone do such a foolish thing? Heh.
Custom interfaces are confusing and make the graphical interface of the host operating system hideous as a whole. I'm baffled by Apple's decision to progressively wreck their formerly beautiful operating system. What a shame.
Exactly.
It isn't fair to compare the sales figures for the Nintendo DS and the PSP because most PSP owners don't use their PSP to play games.
From what I've heard from friends and read on the Web, most people who've bought one either regret it or don't regularly use it.
If you'd bothered to follow the case from the beginning, you'd understand why so many people are protesting against this series of outrageous decisions.
The United States have, through massive exaggeration and dishonesty, virtually abducted a British citizen in order to make him a scapegoat on which to blame the exceptional lack of security in their government computer systems.
Which is probably one of the reasons for why Microsoft destroyed Be.
What?
Supporters of open-source software are prohibited from criticising Vaporsoft-- er, Microsoft for telling an entire series of spectacular lies for over more than a decade unless they themselves create equivalents, or rather, implementations of Microsoft's wet dreams?
Microsoft and their minions are the biggest and funniest joke in the world.
Can't we go one day without Microsoft doing something immoral or illegal?
What's ridiculous is that it seems to have been written in Java! They've somehow used a platform-independent language to create a single-platform applet.
Silly monkey--no banana!
The fact that Microsoft Word can export documents as plain text is evidence that Microsoft are are giving false reasoning for their refusal to add OpenDocument support to their products.
This article is a terrible and biased comparison between the implemented features of Apple Tiger and the partially-implemented and proposed features of Windows Vista.
He thinks that every innovation in any operating system except Windows is irrelevant.
He claims to be comparing Windows Vista to Mac OS, yet he is writing about business practice. Additionally, he fails to mention is that most of the features which Microsoft promised to include in Windows Vista were abandoned.
This conclusion has been drawn without any supporting evidence. Thurrott even mostly critises Windows XP and Vista in the leading paragraphs.
I think shell folders are pointless for these reasons:
I think criticising the lack of pre-created folders in /Users/Shared is extremely weak.
Only an idiot could not find the Spotlight Comments field. The Help Topic stating its location is returned when searching Mac Help for "Spotlight".
The average Windows user, who cannot even secure their computer, will not spend hours adding and revising their metadata.
This is also an extremely weak point. I'm certain the reason for Apple not implementing this is because a standardised selection of distinctive icons allow humans to identify file types faster.
I think this is a scathing overstatement.
Yes
As far as I'm aware, there is no popular software for Linux which is as poorly developed as Microsoft's software. Additionally, open source operating systems employ a variety of methods to boost security, most of which are enforced by their kernels.
According to Netcraft, Microsoft have only 20.43% of the Web server market share as of August 2005. Can you recall there recently being any worm capable of compromising the dominant non-Windows servers?
Unfortunately, Microsoft's software designers and engineers just create more vulnerabilities due to their world-famous stupidity.
Exactly
Those who defend Microsoft are those who are ignorant of their atrocities.
No, I didn't say that.
I said that Windows has no unique features, and the features it does have are poorly implemented.
Therefore, I think the main reason for people choosing Windows in the corporate environment is due to laziness or ignorance.
My point is that the lazy and ignorant don't apply patches.
(By the way, I'm a programmer who previously used Windows, from version 3.1 to XP, over a period of approximately 9 years. I've also tried Fedora Core. I'm now using Mac OS.)
Less than six years by my count, but close.
We're not ignoring the fact that the latest versions of Windows are immune to the worm when updated; we're discussing why major companies fail to apply such security updates.
It seems you are the one who is conveniently ignoring things.
In my opinion, Windows is less than useless.
Therefore, I think the main reason that such companies use Windows is because they are ignorant, lazy, or both.
It would be easier to understand if they didn't make a nonsensical analogy between information in the context of quantum mechanics, and information in the context of human memories.
*SMACK!* Stop trying to make quantum mechanics cool, and make me multicoloured cola!
We're told that yet another feature won't be present in Windows Vista by someone who seems to think that there won't ever be a virus capable of penetrating Vista's "security". These Microsoft guys crack me up!
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's way is the worst:
Wow! I didn't know Microsoft commission so many studies!