The conventional wisdom, that Mac's OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system according to Preston Gralla of ComputerWorld. After your done reading his article view the video from Chris Pirillo.
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Pirillo is an idiot.
alphaxion - April 9, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
the really killer apps on apple right now are final cut pro and motion - they are truly amazing and more than justify having a mac if you want to edit video. Apple have really made a smart move with those apps.
But, from the corporate perspective (since no bugger will ever raise these because they all lack the experience) I’ll give you 5 reasons why windows, not just vista but windows as a platform is better than osx
1) active directory - once you sample that, you’ll know
2) group policy - ok,technically is a part of AD, but is so configurable that I would place it as its own entry.
3) exchange - an utterly fantastic mail server with so much potential, tho it isn’t as customisable as domino is, thankfully it doesn’t have notes as its client!
4) sharepoint services - integrated with exchange and active directory for an easy method of creating collaboration services.
5) WDS/RIS - installing windows across a network is a breeze with this imaging system, RIS is the old 2000/XP method of installing windows, WDS is the “longhorn” method. Installing from a disk is painful after you have it running.
6) WSUS - create a centrally controlled mechanism for keeping your machines up to date utilising your network and AD.
I know that’s six but I could keep on going… as a corporate solution windows is very hard to beat unless you have the resources to invest in alternatives to windows. So many of you guys n gals argue from such a myopic view of the computing world that you simply need to learn about just what is possible - this is why I am a very vocal advocate of windows home server including a very user friendly version of active directory.
1. Vista comes pre-installed with all the extras you need. Vista has a large pre-installed library of applications ready to help the user take advantage of the power of their computer. This includes programs such as games, multimedia, office, graphic design, and networking tools. There’s Solitaire, Notepad, Paint, RegEdit, regsvr32, Ping, etc. The list goes on and on.
2. You can change the color of Vista’s theme. Unlike a Mac, you can make your Vista PC shine with all the glory of the rainbow! Whether you are partial to blue, lavender, red, green, orange, pink, whatever you like, you can customize your Vista PC to give you a wonderful, colorful experience.
3. Vista is an entirely new design. Unlike the stagnant organizational techniques used by the Mac OS X operating system, Vista is organized completely differently than anything Microsoft has ever done. You can forget all the non-sense you learned with XP and begin an adventure through a completely uncharted landscape. You can spend countless hours hunting for options like how to change your desktop background, or how to show hidden files!
4. Vista has an improved security system. Unlike on a Macintosh, where programs can just change setting whenever they desire, the user of a Vista PC must explicitly accept any change to any system setting attempted by an application in Vista. Vista will also load the prompt window for this feature using the Vista Basic theme instead of Aero, which allows the user to have both themes loaded entirely in memory at the same time! This added feature, on some systems, can also halt any open media which is playing in the background when it is closing. This will help protect against the user becoming distracted by playing media while they are trying to see the results of the action they have just accepted.
5. Vista has a structured price vs. feature layout. Instead of being forced to accept all the features that the operating system comes with, a Vista user can select from a variety of different versions which include and exclude various features of the operating system. This means that a user who predicts that they will never need any advanced networking features available in their computer can choose an operating system more geared towards multimedia or office applications. This will allow the user to be free from the clutter of any advanced features that he deems unnecessary at the time of purchase.
Anonymous, you are aware that OS X also has a large pre-installed library of applications ready to help the user take advantage of the power of their computer such as: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, iChat, iSync, Mail, Address book, TextEdit, QuickTime and list goes on This is not counting the GUI tools such as Terminal & X11 an oh yeah all Unix command line tools and programs.
OS X also sports improved security and Ill agree with you that it was way past time that Microsoft fixed all the XP security problems with Vista.
OS X can also use Open Directory or Active Directory. Really you can manage OS X clients in much the same way you can mange your Windows AD users.
OS X is also an entirely new design in case you have never seen an old Mac running OS 9.
OK I am not sure about your share point services comment as I have not used them myself. However you were my first Windows admin that has had any thing nice to say about Microsoft share point services.
Vista has a structured price vs. feature layout? Well I am not sure if you are serious or not but in practice it is disappointing an a waste of money to buy the wrong version and then have to go back and buy the version you really wanted. Most folks do not understand the differences between each version. I like OS X as you get everything and you don't have to use it if you don't want it. OS X unlike Vista it not be sucking up precious CPU cycles for software that you are not using (Vista eye candy)...
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