comparing pears with apples... maybe try to compare vista with osx tiger (which is about 3 years old)... and see which is more advanced and still run on older hardware.

okay, so instead of comparing two NEW operating systems coming out in the same year, you want to compare it to one three years old, and say that it will run on lower hardware?

Of course its going to run on lower end hardware! its an older OS! it was built for computers that didnt have the ram and CPU that we have these days. Vista isnt going to run on everything, and i dout leopard will either.

Its not comparing pears with apples, they are both Operating systems, and (now) run on (nearly) the same hardware.

Its not worthwhile to judge anything on its predecessor, espically software.

well macuser.ro, Apple say that Tiger is 1 year old but i think i can say OSX is 6 years old, because al OSX versions are almost identical. But this doesn't stop Apple sell them as new versions every year.

BTW, XP is overall a better SO than OSX

Neither Vista or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seem to have that much WOW. SabayonLinux with compiz/beryl integrated have more eye candy than both combined. And yes, it is functional and stable; contrary to belief. SabayonLinux is yet to crash on me.
:)

Well, what can I say. Mister Marius Olaga... can you please tell me how long, in hours, because I am very sure that we can't talk about days, you worked in OS X? You are free to share your opinion about win vista and os x but what you wrote makes me sad. You tell me about sidebar in vista and widgets. You know how old is dashboard on mac? I wish for you to be happy with your Vista. Mac os was always ahead of windows. The "windows" GUI was first on mac. The trash can aka recycle bin was first on mac. Aqua was before Aero. You want me to continue?

I will continue... :)

Okay. Vista now has little triangles to collaps folder lists, juste like Mac OS did since... Mac OS 7?
Both have a calandar program, a photo organizing program (and I'm actually talking about Mac OS X.4 Tiger)
Mac OS X.4 Tiger has spotlight... something ~new~ in Vista appears to do the same thing in the start menu
Vista now has a new 3D chest game... Mac OS X.4 Tiger already had a 3D chest game

If I'm not crazy, Mac OS X.4 Tiger is 3 years old, and Vista a few months old. Sooo it's impossible, according to the physic and time laws, for OS X.4 Tiger to be a copy of Vista.

According to Gates on an interview att CNN, the goal of Vista was to make HD Movies, DVD etc, easily. As long as I remember, it was the goal of Mac OS X.0 Cheetah. (Remember on the first iMac, there was a FireWire port for camcorders and it was more than 6 years ago...)

Also, whan can-you do with Vista that you could REALLY not do with XP? I can install gadgets on my XP OS using third party programs. I can skin my XP OS exactly like Vista with third party programs. On the top of that, I never heard something like Quick Look (used to view, play and read files without opening them), Cover Flow (to browse files like browsing music) or Time Machine (Goes back in time to restore a file that you could have deleted months ago) on Vista.

For the 64bits matter... Leopard is made for Intel processors only and Tiger can run on both PPC and Intel processors. This way, Leopard is made to use the full power provided by Intel chips and developer didn't have to make any compromises to run on something else. Apple didn't have to make Leopard run on PPC because they know that almost all of their customers are people who like to use their lastest technologies. So if they want to use Leopard, they will be glad to buy the amazing hardware, regardless of the price, needed to run it. Most of the people who own Macs are people who want quality and lastest technologies.

I'm REALLY wondering where you seen the copy from Vista in Mac OS X.5, you little my-opinions-are-based-on-other-people's-opinions-Marius-Oiaga. Like kaa0s asked, I don't think that you really worked on OS X. I would had let someone else write this new because it's not objective at all.

Oh! I don't know if you know but Bill Gates used to work for Apple before running away with their GUI technology (which was brought in Apple by Steve Jobs from Xerox) to develop it himself. Jobs had always been suspicious about Gates, whose only product when he worked on the Lisa and Macintosh projects was DOS, which was derived from another programmer's QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System)

Gates never been innovative in any way and who pretends the opposite should not pretend being a connoiseur in computer technologies. Unfortunately, people are reading your news thinking you are. That's sad.

Mac OS X Leopard just works. Windows Vista has been here for almost a year and professionals still don't recommend it for production use since all functions are not working properly. If you would bet your life and giving it to someone to use who knows nothing about computers you would be a dead man.

With Windows you need a computer professional watch your back what you are doing.

LOL @ the guy who wrote this article.
I guess his earnings come from Microsoft or something.
I don't hate or like either OS in particular. But I do PREFER OS X.
It's perfectly fine if you prefer Vista, but you shouldn't bad mouth Leopard considering that it seems you only had a few hours of OS X experience.
When I first had my ibook, i wanted to go back to using my PC after a few weeks. But then, after 10 mins on my PC (XP - tried Vista too) I immediately went back to my ibook. Again, just preference. I don't want to bad mouth Vista or XP. I just don't like the way things are done in those MS OS's. I've seen something which i think is much much better. And mind you, I've been using windows all my life until I got my ibook.

Holy biased batman.

The trend from this angle is that Microsoft can't even successfully release an UPGRADE to it's flagship software.

Oh - and try doing research on the two products you are reviewing. It's clear that your biases have overridden your felt responsibility to use actual facts in your defense of Vista.

Let's not forget who invented the windowed GUI and that mouse. (Go ahead, check the patents.)

I hope you don't want to suggest that Apple invented GUI&mouse, 'cause you will be wrong...

I personally think OS X is a better more stable operating system. Having a Unix base, processes are easily handled on OS X. OS X still has a better Window management system, and OS X can be cutomized by the User. Furthermore, OS X can run both Office apps and Unix apps and provides an excellent means to interface with both Windows and Unix. Personally, Vista is full of MS control. OS X allows users freedom and flexibility.

Regards,
Jeff

dude the mouse was not invented by Apple & neither was the GUI get real & stop smoking the Apple dust. Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1964 & the first GUI windows he got the patent for the mouse in 1970 it had a wooden shell & he also invented his own version of windows but could not patent it because software was not patentable in that time frame. But yes Apple would like everyone to believe it was them that invented this & everything else. But the truth is most of what they invent is reinvented by them that someone else already thought of. Take the MP3 player as just another example...anyways

really? you're saying leapord's copying vista? really? First off, look at this quote from the article: "As far as the Dashboard and the widgets are concerned, Microsoft has already been there and done that with the Windows Sidebar and gadgets" Really? widgets copy gadgets? really? because last time i checked, widgets were in tiger, the previous os x operating system which was released in 2005, and oh, when was vista released again? 2007? hmmmm. also, "What does Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard have that Windows Vista doesn't? The answer is nothing..." really? you think so? well, the real question you should be asking yourself is What does Vista have that *tiger* doesn't? the answer is NOTHING.

This is one of the most stupid comparisons I have ever read...Really.