Posted on Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 22:37 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mary Jo from ZDNet reports about what she thinks about Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard operating system. I'm sure her editorial will get a lot of flames from Apple fanboys as she claims that Leopard looks a lot like Microsoft's Windows Vista:
Instead, it was the excitement by the 5,000 WWDC attendees about many technologies in the forthcoming Mac OS X “Leopard” release that already exist in Windows Vista.
A few Mac-show regulars said they thought today’s WWDC audience wasn’t as engaged and enthused as Apple’s developers and customers normally are for a Jobs love-fest. Some said they thought developers were let down by Jobs’ failure to discuss the geekier bits, like Leopard’s use of the ZFS file system. others thought the crowd was subdued because they wanted more iPhone particulars and were let down by the lack of an iPhone software development kit. (Jobs told developers they could simply use existing Ajax and Web 2.0 development technologies to write to Safari, since the Safari engine inside the iPhone will be identical to the one for Mac OS X today.)
To this Windows-show veteran, however, the WWDC developer audience seemed positvely effusive.
I’ve sat through countless Microsoft demos of Vista at a variety of consumer and business events. I don’t remember ever hearing thunderous applause when Microsoft showed off Flip 3D or Vista’s ability to preview thumbnails of documents. The “wows” were few and far between. Yet when Jobs put almost identical versions of these features in Leopard through their paces, there were lots of oohs and ahhs..
Read on at
ZD Net.
