Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Tiger vs. Longhorn

Tiger vs. Longhorn
Relations between the users of Apple and Microsoft computers have never been particularly cordial. Windows users claim they've won the war for the desktop: all you have to do is look at the numbers and you find the most of the world using a Microsoft OS. Mac users point out a near total lack of security problems, along with a bombproof operating system that never seems to crash. (Then they sneer at the Windows masses.)

The truth is that both operating systems are powerful, especially compared to what either company offered a decade ago.

But while Microsoft's Windows XP (news - web sites) is under a nearly constant assault from new security threats, Apple keeps pushing OS X forward with major updates on an annual basis. Apple's next update to OS X, Tiger, should ship in the first half of this year, while Microsoft's next major Windows upgrade has been pushed out to 2006.

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