Full FeedTop ten reasons to buy Windows 7 (i.e. switch to Snow Leopard)
It’s widely known now that Windows 7 will be released on October 22nd of this year, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard will also come out to the public in September. There’s no doubt that each operating system update brings fairly outstanding features to each platform, whether they be under the hood or with the user interface. That said, Business Insider has posted an article with their “Ten Reasons Why People Will Upgrade To Windows 7.” And while I agree with most of the list, it is funny to think that Mac OS X has had many of these for a while.
Here is the list without the descriptions they provided:
- Easy Wi-Fi connection
- Fewer pop-ups
- Easier to share files
- Device Stage
- BitLocker support for removable storage
- Faster boot-up
- Libraries
- Less annoying User Account Control
- Multi-touch feature
- It’s not Vista
See what I mean? From the top, Mac OS X has always made it super easy to connect to wireless networks with a simple Airport icon in the menu bar. Furthermore, pop-ups on Mac OS X aren’t really an issue at all, seeing as how the user interface has been designed in such a way to make notifications work seamlessly (for example, there is Growl, even though it’s not made by Apple).
To point out a few other things, my Mac OS X machines have always booted up fast, and I’ve never had to deal with an ugly UAC as the Preferences window is clean and easy to use.
Like I said, this list from Business Insider points out some great updates to Windows, but I just find it interesting that such simple things have taken so long.
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That goes both ways though ;) Why did Apple take so long to get something like EFS? WDS? ASLR? Restore from trash? :P
Also, the only two things there that exist in Snow Leopard are the two you pointed out, at the top. Maybe “boot faster” but really, my Macbook loaded Vista faster than it loaded Leopard (which was much slower to start than Tiger). So Windows 7 would be even faster.
There is nothing like Libraries, Bitlocker (let alone Bitlocker-to-go), HomeGroup, Device Stage, Multi-touch, etc. And OS X doesn’t really have anything like UAC (protected admin account, secure consent prompts instead of credential prompts, UIPI, etc). They just have a GUI over sudo.
on July 28, 2009 at 09:03 PM - LINKIt will be interested to see if Microsoft can combine, Notepad and Wordpad in a single text editor?
on July 29, 2009 at 06:26 AM - LINKI don’t understand, why there are 2 editors, one basic and one bit advance. Why can’t they be come up with single editor, containing basic to bit advance features.
I can only comment based on my systems, but bootup on my XP system is crazy long. It takes a good 10 minutes or more for the system to become usable after bootup. My Mac on the other hand… Speedy.
on July 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM - LINK