How does the world's biggest software manufacturer bring the pain at CES? Read on for a guided tour...
"Vista, get your Vista here! Best. OS. Ever!"
3D window cascade in
Vista. Sweet.
Media Center, Vista style.
The rarest and most beautiful of creatures,
Femalus Gamerus.
New game for Windows:
Incinerate the Penguin.
Probably the only time these peeps will ever get to play 360.
World's most expensive
bicycle wheel.
Windows Local is the best. True dat...double
true.
"I wonder if this rocks some sort of
DRM..."
This ain't your grandma's jukebox.
"Don't listen to Pogue and
Mossberg,
listen to me."
Family reunion.
Music Gremlin in the wild (thankfully prior to midnight).
"Damn, I thought
this was the Apple booth."
posted Jan 6th 2006 5:46PM
# 48
Dock will become old school as well with Tiger's new spotlight feature, a feature that MS won't even be able to include in Vista.. it'll be a "patch" later on, which won't be part of the OS's core = no software integration... all those programmers and they've had since 2002 and still not able to keep up w/ Apple, jeez.. Seriously, must be cause their OS is a big patch w/ a ton of spagetti code.
Interesting website on Macs vs PC's (Windows), lots of useful factual information.
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/
Quote: "50 million lines of code mean it'll never be secure enough.
Windows XP: 45 Million lines of code
Mac OS X: 2.5 Million lines of code
Starting from scratch has some advantages :)
Also, http://www.hilditch-architect.com/HTML/WhyMac.HTML
"Mac users often swear by their Macs, whereas PC users often swear at their PCs.".... thought that was funny
Mac OS users, when compared with Windows users:
Spend 38 fewer hours per year fussing with files
Save U.S.$ 4,950 annually on support and training
Use more software applications (14.3 vs. 8.3)
Save U.S.$ 2,211 in their computer's three-year cost of ownership
Earn U.S.$ 5.01 more per hour
Constitute 62 percent of the top 10 percent in personal income
Mac OS (vs. Windows) firms:
Earn U.S.$ 12.22 more revenue per hour of labor
Produce U.S.$ 25,550 more in annual revenue per person
Create U.S.$ 14,550 more profits per year per person
Earn 32 percent more net profit per project
Achieve platform payback in 7.2 months (vs. 13.9)
Geez, had to scroll past all the Mac vs XP crap - the way this board looks, you'd think every MacInBot came out to post.
Just wanted to say I think Vista is looking awful...tempting. Definately gonna give it a try when it comes out. I'm really interested to see how the final version looks on speed (since they are still in BETA).