windows can do this at random – an app becomes unresponsive, and you can’t do anything anymore – you’ll have to wait. but when linux does this, it’s very very busy (eg doing several big compiles, which fill up memory, so it starts to trash swap). and i might have done more than just installing office – doing a virusscan, windows update… what i also felt is windows, just like my linux system at home, can be very unresponsive for a few seconds, or even longer now and then. Well, it might indeed depend on hardware as well, tough the hardware i tried windows on wasn’t that sucky. Plus MS actually sells upgrade versions of their OS rather than demanding full price each time. As far as upgrades, MS will likely sell more licenses for Vista in the first week of release than Apple does during the supported lifetime of Leopard. Just as in previous versions of Windows, there’s a standard API that MS and others can (and have) built UI atop. Vista has no default UI for virtual desktops. Apple offers nothing different in this area besides the UI. You can pick through individual files and/or perform full system backups. Snapshots can be copy-on-write or tied to an event of your choosing. UAC dialogs appear less often, and neither System Restore nor VSS/Previous Versions limits you to date-based granularity for snapshots. Current builds of Vista are almost on par with XP in performance (unlike Apple did with 10.0, MS optimizs before release). WPF offers a superset of the functionality in Tiger and Leopard. Mac users will rush to upgrade to Leopard while individuals and certainly businesses are likely to upgrade to Vista only if they have to. The virtual desktop with the ability to drag apps between them (spaces) in Leopard is far better than Vista. Vista has way too many pop ups and warnings for the average user. System restore requires you to choose a specific date and thats it wheres time mahcine in Leopard can restore anything you choose. Even with dual core cpus’ Vista does not multi-task as well as OS X because OS X. Vista is a pig and needs some serious optimization wheres OS X often runs faster or at least as well in each major version. That aero interface is a pale imitation of the capabilities already built into Tiger. Vista doesn’t even match Tigers capabilities much less leopard.
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