Why Windows 7 is not competing with Mac OSX Snow Leopard

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Apple’s specialization and unique differentiation from generic Windows PCs, including the Mac’s advantages of being a highly integrated product with centralized support resources, distinctive hardware design and attractive OS software, all combine to make it better suited for certain markets than the run of the mill PC. No features in Windows 7 can compete against those core strengths of Apple’s integrated platform.

The only way Microsoft can take on the Mac is by creating its own PC hardware. That’s exactly what the company realized it must do with the Zune to compete against the iPod, and it’s what the company plans to do with the “Pink” Windows Phone to rival the iPhone sometime next year.

The Zune failed, and Pink is still vaporware with little chance of success. However, a Microsoft PC would likely do far more damage to the Windows monopoly than simply passively watching as Apple erodes its way deeper into Windows’ most lucrative markets. Microsoft was quick to gamble away the failure of PlaysForSure to obtain a shot with the Zune, but risking its comfortable, if abusive, relationship with PC makers just to take a stab at Apple would likely be disastrous with little upside for the company.
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There’s nothing in Windows 7 that makes the generic PC more competitive with the Mac experience. Instead, Windows 7’s borrowed similarities, including Microsoft’s own version of the Mac OS X Dock and Expose, only endorse Apple’s Mac platform as being the leader and innovator.

Windows 7 won’t make PCs cheaper. In fact, Microsoft has clearly outlined that it wants to use Windows 7 to make netbooks more expensive. This could conceivably create anti-trust problems, given that the company just spent considerable efforts to push Ubuntu Linux off of cheap netbooks using product dumping, but it won’t do anything to help Microsoft leverage cheap hardware against Apple, something that the company has already failed to do even as the Average Selling Price of PCs dips down into the $600 bucket while Apple’s computers are mostly $1000 and up.

Windows 7 simply won’t introduce anything game changing. The global PC market won’t radically rebound because of a new name affixed to the latest Vista service pack. Today’s trends point to PC makers attempting to diversify their offerings by toying with Linux, something Google may be able to exploit with its web-centric Chrome OS for low end PC devices. But nothing out there portends any rebound in the fat profits Microsoft harvested throughout the 90s from its exclusive monopoly control over PC sales.
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The heading to this should be the other way around. Honestly. After looking over the features that Snow Leopard has, I was left scratching my head. Apart from a few things here and there, it sounds little more than a glorified service pack. Features they are trumpeting have been available in Windows for years now. It's also ironic that the feature they most shout about, Exchange compatibility, is made by Microsoft.

Spin as they may, when you get down to it you realise that it's actually Apple admitting defeat there. Yes, tons of features are now moving to web based mail, the cloud etc..., but the fact is that Apple couldn't create a groupware suit to rival Exchange.
 
They've re-written Finder and now it looks more uniform and is faster.
They've updated some multi-processing scheduling issues which means the OS runs a bit faster.
They've gotten rid of 32 bit elements - Leopard was already 64bit but now it's all 64bit.
They've gotten rid of some code - it's now all Mac Intel - so less OS bloat - something like 5GB more disk space freed.

What is also nice is that you can upgrade from Leopard without having to do a clean re-install. With Win 7 MS recommends a clean reinstall which sucks,
considering you have to activate your Office, PhotoShop, every filter and plugin, 3rd party utilites and codecs and so on - it's a time waster of epic proportions
and could lead you to extra expenditure if your serial number for plugin xyz is lost - or won't activate (Adobe!!!) - means you must buy another copy.

There's not much in terms of eye candy but Apple Mac users don't like UI changes for the sake of change. What works well is left alone.

This Service Pack (SL) is however only R300 odd - ie $29 while Windows 7 will cost you a full R3000 or what-not.
 
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YAPOC, we are talking 300 bucks to get from Leopard to Snow Leopard... 300. I think its still cheaper to go buy Leopard and a snow leopard upgrade disc than to just buy the version of windows 7 that has all its features...
 
A few thousand?

Have you seen how much a mac desktop costs? Not to mention if you want to game you mostly need windows so people with apple pc's who game still need windows.

What microsoft charge for windows and how cheap windows hardware is, it is still cheaper than buying a mac.

All to their own i reckon and i agree with you cerebus, he is worse than a linux fanboy. The worst thing is at least the linux fanboys have used windows 7 or vista for that matter and can make an informed opinion, peter has not used vista or windows 7.
 
How am I a fanboy? It's a valid point. Use it or don't use it.

edit: oops. I blame apple *duck*
 
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Lol i wasn't referring to yapoc. Peterch's mac fanboying is really getting tiresome. He keeps dredging up these bilious one-sided invectives. Get a grip - Windows isn't all bad and OSX isn't as wonderful as you believe.
 
YAPOC said:
How am I a fanboy? It's a valid point. Use it or don't use it.

edit: oops. I blame apple *duck*
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No we not talkin about you, we are talkin about peter who has never used the operating system he has posted about and i don't mean mac :D.
 
killadoob said:
No ......peter who has never used the operating system he has posted .............:D.
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Sometimes I just wonder if even have a mac, maybe just a Japanese (cannot be Chinese) OEM brand PC with win3.11. Therefore his hatred for anything Microsoft or Sony or just "Twooo" much Japanese Hubly Bubly.

Back to topic.

Why Windows 7 is not competing with Mac OSX Snow Leopard ????????????
Simple and straigh forward answer. There is just nothing to compete with. Microsoft are left to compete with themselfs (or as only one person in the world believe, with Peter). Apple at least know they are not competing as they service a expensive, very expensive nich fanboi club/market.
 
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Yea i dunno what peter has used but i know he does a lot of reading and posts any kuk he can without knowing about anything he posts on.

Very very trollish as cerebus pointed.
 
Ladies, ladies, ladies - killa, cerberus - come on, let's get those panties un-knotted ok? :)

Seriously, just because you disagree with something, it doesn't mean that the article is a troll. I don't troll. FYI this forum is full of Windows 7 articles. I posted a few interesting Mac OSX vs Win 7 tidbits. That's all I did. No need to call me a troll - you're abusing the definition anyway. Disagree if you will but STATE why you disagree - don't just say "Oh he's a troll." Also don't use foul language, please.

I also called SL a service pack - if you look up - I'm not an Apple Fanboy but having used both systems Apple Mac is way more superior than Windows + generic PC. I run an Apple Mac Pro, a Panasonic Laptop and a NEC netbook. For me Apple is the only non-Japanese PC maker to make quality products, but Windows does suck and this guy at RoughlyDrafted tells us why, plus why MS is selling vapourware.

You also can't deny that MS has copied the Apple Dock. What you guys are raving about in Win 7 is something Mac OSX had since Panther. BTW I was a Windows >>> Mac fanboy too, once, long ago (even on this forum).
 
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killadoob said:
A few thousand?

Have you seen how much a mac desktop costs? Not to mention if you want to game you mostly need windows so people with apple pc's who game still need windows.
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And if I want to play Valkyria Chronicles or Star Ocean 4 I need a console. A PC won't work either.

WHAT is your point then? PCs play a few games more than Macs? Consoles beat everything anyway.

Besides Macs are for work, not for playing games. I'd prefer my work car to be reliable, my play car can be a Mickey Mouse affair on the other hand.
 
I am Penguin said:
Sometimes I just wonder if even have a mac, maybe just a Japanese (cannot be Chinese) OEM brand PC with win3.11. Therefore his hatred for anything Microsoft or Sony or just "Twooo" much Japanese Hubly Bubly.

Back to topic.

Why Windows 7 is not competing with Mac OSX Snow Leopard ????????????
Simple and straigh forward answer. There is just nothing to compete with. Microsoft are left to compete with themselfs (or as only one person in the world believe, with Peter). Apple at least know they are not competing as they service a expensive, very expensive nich fanboi club/market.
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This guy has issues.
 
PeterCH said:
............ Disagree if you will but STATE why you disagree - don't just say I'm not an Apple Fanboy but having used both systems Apple Mac is way more superior than Windows + generic PC. I run an Apple Mac Pro,.............., but Windows does suck and this guy at RoughlyDrafted tells us why, plus why MS is selling vapourware.
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bwahahahahah, ROFL, Not a fanboy, Bwahahahahah....

Anyway thats the point We do not slate Apple as we do not know it, we do not use overpriced proprietyware, we are not part of a nich fan club. Thus we cannot agree or disagree. From the onset You slated Windows 7 and used excuses from economy to timing, cost, ...ware, how M$ cheated Apple since 1922, How they killed the opposition, how they are a monopoly, why the cat had kittens again, the japanese wars, etc. YET YOU NEVER RAN WIN7 but you act the ExSPERT. Freaking hell.
 
The Jealous winpirates are defendng their cracked Windows copies.. so sad..
 
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