Comments on: Gates and Jobs, will we miss you this time round?

By: Anonymous 167

Anonymous 167 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:10:26 +0000

I'll be the Mac user to speak up. For those of you who have the time to wade through 22 pages of an in depth review, check out John Siracusa's 10.6 review over at Ars Technica.

For those of you who don't, while Snow Leopard may be light on new features, what this OS release brings us is a true 64 bit kernel (just one more step to a fully 64-bit OS, perhaps 10.7 or 10.8), many deprecated/clarified/extended API's, and OpenCL and Grand Central for excellent multi-tasking and effective GPU usage. Among many other smaller bits that probably only developers care about (migration to LLVM instead of GCC for example).

By: Anonymous 167

Anonymous 167 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:10:26 +0000

I'll be the Mac user to speak up. For those of you who have the time to wade through 22 pages of an in depth review, check out John Siracusa's 10.6 review over at Ars Technica.

By: Mauricio Perez

Mauricio Perez — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:59:55 +0000

i agree with rich completely…

By: Mauricio Perez

Mauricio Perez — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:59:55 +0000

i agree with rich completely…

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:58:55 +0000

Just because news is kind of slow (after all, pretty much everything has been covered) doesn't mean you need to trash this site. Windows7news has had the best overall coverage to date. As the launch comes to a close, the news on this site will dwindle and most of the users will migrate to Windows8news. It's been a great ride but new “news” is unlikely as the final product is already out there (just not to retail yet). This is relevant to Windows 7 in general and some of us (like me) weren't aware that Gates had completely backed off the project. If you don't like the articles on this site, try going elsewhere.

By: g1lmour

g1lmour — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:13:04 +0000

stephen, im fed up with your meaningless long winded comments, stop trawling and GTFO!

this is a great site, and they do the best at what they do

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:04:18 +0000

This site needs an op-ed page, so that this sort of meaningless navel gazing isn't presented as news. So there is nothing new in either Windows 7 or SL? Have you bothered to to even use the OSs before presenting such subjective opinions as facts? Both OSs have substantial new features under the hood and (at least for Windows 7) on the surface as well.

As far as SL goes, I'll let a Mac user address that subject. On the Windows front, I don't know whether you noticed, but the Windows 7 taskbar has been completely redesigned and the Aero concepts (introduced at a basic level in Vista) are much more robust. Perhaps if they dropped the Aero label, you might notice they are really entirely new features. Of course, even though XP Mode does not impress me, and is hardware limited, the seamless integration of a virtual OS into a disk-based native OS would also seem to be a rather substantial change.

BTW, if you want to be controversial or stir up interest by making provocative statements, the effect is lost when you then insist on pandering to everyone. The "what have we lost/it''s not what it could be" post, when combined with "but everything is wonderful for everyone" has about as much effect as saying Toyota makes better cars than Honda unless you like Hondas. I also still haven't a clue as to what you mean by both OSs have coincided, nor does anything you've written suggest either was designed by accountants. Like a particular Mac user, I think I'll pass on reading these posts as well....

Stephen

By: Jerish Brown

Jerish Brown — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:56 +0000

I wouldn't think that windows would get “Boring.” I mean, compare the number of games on Windows to Games on Mac. Yeah, boring isn't happening anytime soon!

Its sad to see bill gone, but Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky are working to make windows fun, safe and up-to-date!