Have you ever visited the Mac OS X Leopard Sneak Peek web page? And judged it from a Windows Vista user's perspective? Let me tell you. It is hilarious! In fact, hilarious is an understatement. Apple has gone all out applauding Leopard.

Actually, the first message on the page reads: "what do you do when you reach enlightenment? Keep going. Mac OS X Tiger was ahead of its time in 2005. But that didn't stop Apple engineers from moving forward. Get a glimpse of the not-so-distant future. Introducing Mac OS X Leopard."

What do you do when you reach enlightenment? Since when is building an operating system, or writing code for that matter a religious experience? Should Apple users begin crossing themselves to the Leopard? But this is not it. The hilarity is in the fact that the creation of Mac OS X Tiger ahead of its time in 2005 did not stop Apple's engineers from moving forward. However, Apple's much praised engineers did manage to trip over the iPhone and postpone the availability of Leopard until October.

In all fairness, Apple's engineers have not come to a complete halt and a beta build of the operating system will be delivered at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007, between June 11 and June 15. But still, iPhone has to be credited for banning Leopard into the Winter of 2007, and allowing Windows Vista a market window to breathe.

One other aspect that put a smile on my face involved the Boot Camp technology integrated into Leopard. "More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Boot Camp lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac," Apple claims. And the fact of the matter is that Boot Camp supports Windows XP, but also 32-bit Windows Vista. Apple should get up to date on this one.

And the last touch is also hilarious. "Get ready, get set, get Leopard!" reads one last message from Apple. Get ready? Get set? For what? To get Leopard all the way in October? How about Windows Vista? It runs great on Intel-based Mac computers, and is available now.