On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing that I found markedly different is that OS X releases form a > more or less natural progression: each adds some things that were > difficult/impossible in the previous version.
And in Windows, they make difficult/impossible things that were possible in the previous version. It's a strategy. I guess. > There are tweaks here and there, and a couple of ancient things are removed > or overhauled, but you never get the feeling that Version X-1 was crap, or is > useless now. Agreed. OS X has had it's share of upgrades that make things incompatible, but it's always been on a more reasonable schedule, imho: new stuff is introduced, old stuff works in parallel, next, old stuff works with a compatibility layers, then it's deprecated. The CoreDuo retirement, Cocoa/Carbon, PPC to Intel transition. There ARE new features, nice compelling ones. And the price has always seemed fair. > I still remember Microsoft ads which targeted the BSOD as the > "competition" from whom they were trying to convince you to run. They convinced me. I haven't had a BSOD on my Linux boxes, my Mac or my LAMP servers in nearly a decade now. In all fairness, MS is doing a lot better with their Blue Screens of Death, too. There are far fewer. And they upgraded the color. I hear black is the new blue. Black & Blue seems appropriate. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4vnhf1tX9i8kwv1==sz+p6awhk-_s101vgwi2dvxyh...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
