Are You Going to Buy Windows Vista?

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear

Can anyone tell me if Vista has any features that Mac 10.4 doesn't have? I don't want to start a Mac/PC ****ing match, but I am curious about where Microsoft is relative to Apple feature-wise...

None comes to mind. Are you talking underlying technologies, eye candy...?

To me though, it's not about what Mac OS has and Windows doesn't or vice versa, it's about how quickly and efficiently I can get things done with the least amount of frustration.

I can tell you things about both systems that aggravate me but Windows has much more of the pull your hair, throw your pc out the window type of things.

[fanforever1986]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Live Thumbnails --> Also in Mac Expose --> Opera's Browser has done this for open Tabs for a while
Instant Search --> Mac Spotlight, again been around for a while --> Copernic Desktop Search
Icon Thumbnails --> Those have been on the Mac Dock for a few versions of OS X now.--> They've also been in Linux for quite a while
Windows Sidebar --> Mac Dashboard.-->Desktop Sidebar
Windows Gadgets --> Widgets. --> Konfabulator

You can't really tell MS to get original when Apple also liberally borrows ideas just as freely.

But perhaps Apple does it better than MS, until I try both I won't know.

I can't say who had what first, but the first version of Mac OS X came out in 2001...Not sure which of those features it had then. Mac may borrow idea's from smaller single purpose companies, but I don't think they've borrowed any from MS.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by fanforever1986

I can't say who had what first, but the first version of Mac OS X came out in 2001...Not sure which of those features it had then. Mac may borrow idea's from smaller single purpose companies, but I don't think they've borrowed any from MS.

Well, they did add a right click to their mouse

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

You can't really tell MS to get original when Apple also liberally borrows ideas just as freely.

But perhaps Apple does it better than MS, until I try both I won't know.

A lot of people use the argument of Konfabulator vs Dashboard. Konfabulator is a collection of applets written from a scripting language. Hardly revolutionary. The Classic Mac OS had these back in the day too.

Apple does buy companies whose products interest them (BeOS, NeXt, coverflow), they contribute to the open source community and various consortium's. Microsoft likes their own, proprietary standards.

Are all of Apple's ideas new? No. Are the applications of ideas new? Yes.