@jonnythan Said OS X has gone through *six* major new versions since its inception,
the most recent of which came out in 2005 and another is coming out in a few months.
Each version includes major new features, at least a few of which almost certainly were
borrowed from Windows Vista documents, claims, developer builds, etc. Apple borrows as
much from Microsoft as Microsoft borrows from Apple.
Now, if you know so much, why don't you tell us WHICH features of OS X were borrowed
from Microsoft??
@jonnythan Said I never said Windows was better than OS X. You need to read the actual
content of my posts than infer my position based on criticisms of yours. OS X is vastly
superior to Windows in many ways, but
not in the realm of system stability.
The meat of your post that I took issue with was your contention that OS X is infinitely
more stable than Windows. So stable that you can run multiple applications (and DVD
music?!) without it crashing. The truth is that this is total BS, as I stated in the above post.
Long story short, I said that you were wrong about OS X being so much more stable than
Windows and that Apple probably copies as much from Microsoft as Microsoft copies from
Apple. You took these two comments to mean that I was a Microsoft fanboy, that I thought
Windows was superior to OS X, then you went 100% on the defensive and began attacking
me as if those arguments were true.
Obviously, they are not true. You need to go back and catch up by reading what I actually
said instead of addressing what you think my thoughts might be.
I never said that OSX was more stable than MS. If I did, please point it out for me.
I just said I would never give up my mac for anything else. I am satisfied with its
performance.
@jonnythan Said
Oh, BTW, regarding new "under the hood" features of Vista, these are some of the better
ones:
TCP Window Scaling
ReadyBoost
ReadyDrive (This one is especially cool)
Built-in full drive encryption
TCP Window scaling - that's been around for some time in the Linux world, check out TCP
Vegas on Wiki.
ReadyBoost & ReadyDrive - No candy. It's plain IT gizmo stuff. Not for Joe Bloke. and read
this
https://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1974952,00.asp
Built-in drive encryption - has been there for some years on OS X. Nothing new there.
Actually, Apple did better by just automatically encrypting the user data folder, which is
smarter.
Anyway, there's nothing phenomenal there, all *normal* operating system evolution stuff. I
found more new things when upgrading to XP.
Surely Microsoft didn't invent anything there.