Windows 8 Will Take on Mac OS X Lion

somewhat biased windows point of view then !

"Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7 had no real competition from Apple." - issues like?

.Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard,


what issues?
works fine for me from day 1
you must have installed it wrong (how??)

Oops, Windows vNext, or Windows OSX, erm i mean Windows 10.7..i mean windows 8 OSX....agh...Forget it...


"Windows 7 was my idea" - Steve Jobs

Yes and Macs NEVER EVER EVER COPIES ANYONE EVER!
The entire operating system was stolen from an open source project.
They took the app place from Linux Ubuntu.

I actually like Macs, but you can't pretend that everything about them is infinitely superior to everything else. Every company steals a bit, its the only way not to get left behind...

"Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7 had no real competition from Apple."

Have you been under a rock the past 3 or 4 years? Windows can't maintain consistency between ANY release it has ever put out, thus correcting some issues and creating more. Each new Windows version is a jarring and chaotic mess of rearrangement, new titles (often stealing from OS X in many ways), and cumbersome set-ups like a window screaming at me constantly that I don't have virus protection, or "my system is at risk," or how I'm missing a driver, only to click "find driver" and it come up with nothing. Then shooting me to a 5 page dissertation about how I can find a solution to a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place. Anyone notice My Computer quietly change to just Computer? And the fact that Windows has switched to a numerical based system for their OS's, much like Apple has been doing for years? They want to be Apple as much as they hate to admit it. I'm no Mac fan boy (ok maybe a little), but Windows has got to be one of the most terrible OS's out there. If Linux would get the support it deserves I'd rather use it. And it's FREE. It's a shame to see Micro pull the wool over millions if not billions of people's eyes with new releases that just plain don't stack up. What's different in Windows 7 from Vista? Nothing. It runs better, sure, but I can take a crap on a porch and the next day I can clean up the poo and put flowers out there and say I improved the look of the porch and the bad smell is gone. That's my biggest beaf with Windows. Oh look, we took something that was really crappy and made it only sorta crappy with this next release. THEY EVEN USE IT AS A MARKETING STRATEGY. "We fixed Windows now, har har." "This was his idea and her idea." This, that, and the other. IE 8 is still buggy (ok it sorta understands basic CSS code now…a little), it is still "plagued" with viruses, and it's STILL * to use as it has always been. Constant errors that don't make sense without a programming book in your lap and countless hours of third party software hunting just to get it to kinda do what you want it to do, and even then it doesn't integrate with ANYTHING else to make life easier. Windows 7 STILL doesn't know what a RAW file is! It's a RAW FILE! They are basic digital photo files. Why can't I see that without having to download 4 things and only one working? And you guessed it, I can't see RAWs in the preview, only the garbage third party software. Take a look at OS X, * OS 9 even, and come up to Snow Leopard. It is an OS that has evolved, not rushed to catch up with what's kicking it's * in the satisfaction surveys. When does Windows actually update an OS? Not release a new version, just a simple update. It just lets outdated junk sit there for decades then tells you that you need a BIG ASS PATCH that will take hours to download and install. This is why IE 6 is still out there being used. Instead of pushing a small update like Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, or any other modern browser, they force it * near engrained into the entire OS to where a user has to sit through a century long update process just to bring their browser current. What normal PC owner is going to do that? None of them. They won't do that just as much as they won't google "IE 8" and sit through yet another * Microsoft driven in-browser update. Bah. If it was only Microsoft out there I doubt I would even use a computer.

Troll bait...

And what are these issue plaguing OS X? It's the most stable version I've ever used.

"Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7 had no real competition from Apple."

What utter * . Snow Leopard has had no issues WHATSOEVER for me. Nice unbiased, factual, article, Softpedia. I'm glad I never read you for tech news.

Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard ...
ha ha ha ... a big joke ...

I my self went trough all MS Dos's and Windows's till Vista and somehow could free myself with a Hack Mac ... what a relief ...
since Leopard 10.5.6 I'm riding OS X now SL 10.6.6 a blessing!

I feel MS window's are just plain robbery something which runs for two years and then you trow away hoping the next surely will be better or solve your PC problems.
And now Windows 8 what a JOKE!

With regard to "Given the array of issues that plagues Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows 7 had no real competition from Apple." There seem to be quite a few Apple fans distraught with this.

Well, I have an Apple computer (3 actually running Jaguar, Tiger,

Looks like lot of apple fan boys got offended. Go play with your games and do your browsing, because that is all apple products can do. It cannot even copy a huge amount of data and play a movie simultaneously.

dude you know what you say? if you would say windows can't play a movie good yea but a mac? dude i use now a piece of * windows that has the same price of a macbook pro 15 inch and it sucks it got windows 7 and omg i * hate it is lags it can't play a good blu-ray movie from 8gb good or its blurry xs and all those stupid updates u have to w8 1 hour till u can start clicking webpages but slower on a mac and ow yea i like to play wow on my mac and hate it on my windows just stopid i need a windows * for school els i would pay something better where you don't have to go back after 6 months and say your HDD is broken xs so think twice before you say something windows fanboy

Windows 7 had no real competition from Apple? This is a funny point of view! Most agree that Snow Leopard had no competition from Windows 7, although the latter was released much later. I'm also interested in having the list of "issues that plague Snow Leopard". Maybe switching from Windows to Lion would be an option for the writer of this story in order to leave his dark and blurry surrounding behind...