Has Anyone Here Come From Mac OS to Vista?

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Apple isn't lazy and legacy hardware is not an issue with Mac OS X, at
least based on my experiences and from working with Mac OS X. The Mac
OS X upgrade experience is far easier than Windows -- buy a new Mac. :)
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I'm talking legacy software and not hardware.
 
Pipboy said:
Vista is not Dos. Apple broke all compatibilty with their existing apps
and
every Mac user had to buy all their software once again when they went to
a
Unix OS. Imagine the uproar if Microsoft made such a move.
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I didn't say Vista was DOS. I compared Apple's business strategy of buying
into an existing OS vs. building one to Bill Gates strategy which was
similar, buy DOS and don't reinvent the wheel. It's called an analogy. And
if you want to get picky, when Bill Gates brought DOS into the world, nearly
everyone had to buy new software.

As I said above, I'm not defending the Mac.

Not re-writing the OS was a business strategy that has paid off for several
companies.

Art
 
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Vista is not Dos. Apple broke all compatibilty with their existing apps and
every Mac user had to buy all their software once again when they went to a
Unix OS. Imagine the uproar if Microsoft made such a move.
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I'd put money down that Microsoft will do so, sooner or later. Sort-of.
The difference is that when Microsoft does it, older apps will be
completely virtualized (think Virtual PC showing a single app, no
Explorer or anything else, without the Virtual PC "window" around each
app)
 
Vista is not Dos. Apple broke all compatibilty with their existing apps and
every Mac user had to buy all their software once again when they went to a
Unix OS.
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Not quite, a number of pre-OS X apps could run in emulation for a
while.
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Eye candy do not maketh the GUI though.
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It doesn't?
And you can run X-Window [Linux, UNiX, Solaris, etc etc) apps in OS X
also). And since that time, they switched to Intel which makes it
even more appealing.
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Because of dual booting and/or usable virtualisation you mean? Tis
very handy.
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X-Window ---->> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

And dual booting with Windows XP (and now Vista I suppose?) in the
case of Intel Macs.

It's that old hardware choice vs tight hardware/software integration
thing. Each has its benefits, but unfortunately, they're mutually
exclusive.
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Compared to the pre-OS X days, I don't see where the hardware/software
integration is that "tight".
That's probably a familiarity thing. Get ingrained within the way of
working of one OS, and another will inevitably be alien and seems...
just wrong for a time. Happens to us all to some degree or other.
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It didn't' seem "wrong", just different. It would take getting used
to, that's all. I just don't know if it would end up driving me nuts
or not (especially since I've only had Windows at work).
Ditto as above. Some are too set in their ways to change; others take
to change like a duck to water.
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I'm split. It depends on what kind of change. I like variety though,
which is why I've had Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris on this box also (I
will again soon -- as soon as I get some hardware issues worked out).

Oh and in KDE (an X-Window Desktop Environment) you can switch desktop
settings to give you a very Mac-like look and feel, complete with app
menu bar at the top of the screen. I've played with it that way, but
went back to the "Windows-like" way after a time.

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Art said:
Not defending the "poofs" or anything, but why would you write your own
OS when there's a proven one out there you can buy? It doesn't sound
lazy to me, sounds like good business sense (if that's in fact what
happened). After all, Bill Gates did not write DOS.
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Or NT, or Internet explorer, or windows defender, or or or the list is
huge.

(I refer to Microsoft not gates. Has he written anything since the PDP8)


Matt
 
Pipboy said:
Vista is not Dos. Apple broke all compatibilty with their existing apps and
every Mac user had to buy all their software once again when they went to a
Unix OS. Imagine the uproar if Microsoft made such a move.
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They might as well have. A clean break notified as such leaves no one
wondering. XP SP2 however caused some nasty surprises. Vista another
load. Would not a clean break have actually been better?
 
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Would not a clean break have actually been better?
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Perhaps, although I can just imagine the number of complaints.

I predict we'll see a clean break once there is a stable virtualization
solution included within the OS for backwards compatibility.
 
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