Comments on: Spinning More Leopard FUD

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a-scared of Leopard.

[nicolasdore]

Calculator buttons are so small...

Me thinks the hoofs hit the wrong keys on the calculator: 6 years - 2.5 years = 3.5 years, not 4.5...

Wouldn't be a Mac user if I didn't care about details... :)

[mochant]

Great post and points

One not - if you're going to (sic) AKH on his typos, be sure yours are fixed. "...Bill Gates originally stated..." would be correct.

Nits aside, you nailed it (as usual). Link baiting works however. He's run up a long comment thread that, as suual, has little or nothing to do with the merits of the post and everything to do with flinging poo at people with opposing opinions.

[GlennF]

Three pillars of Vista perfection

One might also note that Vista shrunk in featureset as security concerns grew to eclipse all the supposed other improvements. There were three pillars of Vista that were supposed to take it into the next generation of goodness, making XP just like some dross scraped off a booth: a host of application environment stuff that's too detailed to describe; WinFS, a next-generation filing system; and Aero.

So...Aero made it in.

The application stuff turned out to be less important, scaled back, and deprecated.

WinFS was the big one. WinFS is to Spotlight what Spotlight was to Panther's Find feature. WinFS was a reworking of the filesystem to create a relational database infrastructure that integrated meta data and file storage in such a way that files and data within programs could make use of the same framework. Very cool. It meant smart folders, but also smart datasets.

And....it's outta there! After years of development, it appears that something that cool just can't be inserted into Windows. WinFS went from a critical component that would replace 20 years of Windows and DOS nonsense, to an optional installation under Windows following Vista's release to a pretty fairy that we can imagine while we sleep.

Leopard between announcement and release lost Time Machine backups to AirPort Disks and, by extension, network-attached storage. Which rumors imply might return in a future Leopard release.

[andydahl]

Don't forget a key point...

Macalope,

Don't forget this key point: "Now I?m going to be honest and say that I?ve not seen any of these bugs that people are talking about. Partly that?s down to my Mac being a clean install running nothing but the Mac OS..."

AKH seems to be saying, "I don't want to confuse you with the facts, but it worked great for me." And what's with the "clean install" BS?

I'm always suspicious of anyone who says "to be honest". Does this mean everything else they say is a lie?

Love the column. Love your MacBreak appearances.

[kimgh]

Leopard slipped 4 months

Originally slated for June (and probably would have been the end of June). End of June to end of October = 4 months, not 6.

Just sayin'.

[Melissa Good]

Apple Unfair!!!

I feel cheated. I upgraded (standard upgrade) two Macs and didn't get any of the reported problems. I find this totally irresponsible of Apple. All the blogs are talking about these issues, and I have been prevented from experiencing them. I think its time for a class action suit.

Down with Apple! To get them back, I'm going to go buy an iPhone.

[Ma8thew]

No problems

I've experienced no problems either, and I wasn't exactly running a pristine
Tiger system. And the 'Trojan'? It's basically the equivalent of telling someone to
run 'sudo rm -rf /'.

[frank bruce]

No OSX 10.5 for me >:-\

The local distributor for Mac related things in Costa Rica will be delivering OSX 10.5 next 15th, until then I have not found a single re-distributor here that has it.
What I think of Vista and OSX?
These are two different operating environments? with their good things and their bad things. And the only relationship they have is that now OSX can run Vista in virtualization mode (real virtualization through several other programs) or through a dual boot option (all of this reminds me of my OS/2 Warp years).
About the 300+ features and so on, I don?t fall into the marketing loop, the only thing I know and I?m concern is that my parent?s Mac Mini (Core duo) and my iMac (Core 2 duo) will work fine with the new environment, if I encounter a problem I will see how I can solve it (I set for my parents a simplified finder).
Do I expect bugs from a new release? IBM use to say: never buy version 0 of any product, I usually wait for all the compatibility issues are solved, but I have not seen many problems with this version of OSX to stop me from moving forward.
Regards
-Frank