BBC Article on Vista turns into Advert for Mac OS X

[elppa]

I thought it was funny.

Read some of the comments. Apple could almost stop advertising as some of them are practically quoted line for line from the get a mac pafes.

To be fair, the article was about “The Battle of the Operating Systems”, but it is unlikely it would have written if Vista wasn't arriving next week.

 

[Mr Skills]

Interesting that they going to pick a representative of each OS to have a (presumably televised) debate.

When I have seen that sort of thing in the past, they usually pick the least articulate Mac user they can find.

Could be an idea for someone from this forum to join the fray...

 

[QuantumLo0p]

Paul Thurrott's head has to be on the verge of exploding.

 

[elppa]

The Linux users made a late rally and ended up doing quite well. FWIW they have finished taking responces, so I totted up the results:

Mac OS X — 24
Linux (or specifically Ubuntu) — 16
Vista (or Windows) — 10
No Preference — 2
Mac OS 8.2** — 1
Amiga — 1

Whichever way you try and spin this, it doesn't look that good for Windows. Perhaps Microsoft will blame voter apathy.





** Was there such a thing? I remember 8.1, 8.5 and 8.6, I have no recollection of 8.2. The only reference I found to this was a Wikipedia article which stated this was the name given to the beta of 8.5.

 

[ITASOR]

** Was there such a thing? I remember 8.1, 8.5 and 8.6, I have no recollection of 8.2. The only reference I found to this was a Wikipedia article which stated this was the name given to the beta of 8.5.

Yeah, it was just a beta, and a pretty cool one. It had the genie effect that was never used again until OS X. 8.2 is code named Snowman.

 

[apfhex]

Yeah, it was just a beta, and a pretty cool one. It had the genie effect that was never used again until OS X. 8.2 is code named Snowman.

Really interesting. I'd never heard of it. How'd it have the Genie effect?? However 8.2 in this article /must/ be a typo of 8.5.

I don't suppose it's a coincidence that there was a movie named "The Snowman" released in 1982.

 

[bigandy]

Paul Thurrott's head has to be on the verge of exploding.

even mr "i want to hump windows most hours of the day" seems to be liking macs more. he's even got macs at home

 

[aussieNickuss]

even mr "i want to hump windows most hours of the day" seems to be liking macs more. he's even got macs at home

Yeh....didn't he buy a mini for his wife?...becuase it was easier to use and more stable and reliable!

 

[MacsRgr8]

Yeah, it was just a beta, and a pretty cool one. It had the genie effect that was never used again until OS X. 8.2 is code named Snowman.

Hey.. cool!

This was a "real" OS 8-beta, and not some beta of Copland?
Any screesnhots??

 

[djejrejk]

Amazing how many Linux people responded,... Linux makes my head hurt

 

[ebouwman]

I was looking at the adds for Vista and it seems to look a lot like OSX

Like MS couldn't come up with their own ideas for features to put into a new OS. Either that or they're just years behind apple in developing software.

>Their new icon tray on the right side of the start bar looks more like the the umm whatever it is on the top right hand side of the macs.

>their high speed search

>better security hahahahahahahahaha

>and that thing where you see the little preview for the windows that are minimized is like a crappy copy of OSX's expose.

The overall styling also more like OSX in my opinion.