Vista Arrives
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The issues with 'security' between the OSes are not just 'how many' but how many people were hurt by the security holes.
There are no known viruses or exploits for OS X. That sums it up.
That's not saying that no one ever had bad hardware, r bad ram, or a bad harddrive, or a bad OS install - that happens. You can't completely eliminate that.I am saying that there are no security vulnerabilities on OS X that affect people or hurt them or their data.
I think we all know that is not true about windows.
The issue about "who came up with what' first is pointless. Everything has been done or thought of - we're just pushing and evolving it.
Desk Accessories became Konfabulator and Konfabulator become Dashboard.What is important is the implmentation. Apple thought of putting it into the OS with Desk Accessories and revived it with some inspiration from Konfabulator in Tiger. Windows copied them after they added it into Tiger. I guarantee they were not adding it until Apple did.
Regardless, I think widgets are lame and annoying.As for the interface - we can argue about MS ripping of Apple - but it's pointless since Apple is moving away from the glassy candy look anyway to something more refined and less saturated.
What we SHOULD argue is the usability and practicality of the features.
The app switcher, Expose, Dock and window design in OS X are all brilliant and help increase my productivity.
It remains to be seen how the UI in Vista helps users and productivity.
Honestly, I think the 'modes' in their apps are very nice - it isn't a new concept, but it IS a nice implementation - however I'm not sold on the DESIGN of the interface, just the concepts.
It seems like they're adding in 'work modes' like tabs almost - except instead of there being new documents - there are additional workspaces with separate tools to work from.
Not everything should be done with floating palettes - and redundancy across the modes for the most commonly used items is a no-brainer.
Should be interesting to see how that stuff plays out.
the GUI's design, however, is fucking ugly