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Friday, March 10, 2006
No Windows for you! That’s what the Vista Nazi will be saying to all you iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini users with those Intel chips in them. Yes, it seems that the development manager at Microsoft, Andrew Ritz, spit the bad news out at the Intel Developer Forum this week at Moscone Center in San Fransisco. To further the blow, Ritz said Microsoft operating systems will never support EFI booting on systems with 32-bit processors. This completely removes any hope for dual-booting OSx86 machines at this point.
What SvenOnTech finds interesting is the lack of true innovation from Microsoft. We’ve been critical here with the Redmond-based company not because we hate it, but because it keeps making false statements. Windows Vista is suppose to be this amazing jump in the Windows family but our view of it at CES was nothing short of ripping off the Aqua interface from OS X and just being a dot upgrade from XP. A command prompt in XP shows one that the OS is 5.1 while Windows2000 is 5.0. Why do we feel like Vista will show 5.2?
With Vista ditching such great advancements as a new file system, dumping support for EFI is just one more step in making this operating system just another marketing challenge for Microsoft more then a leap forward for Windows users. Once again, users will be forced to use the 20-year-old BIOS to boot their systems instead of the next generation channel of communication between the operating system and hardware. While Apple users get to enjoy their drivers living in EFI flash memory, Vista users will continue to have hardware and software issues like crashes that have so plagued Windows for over a decade.
So again, Apple will have the truly advanced operating system and once again, Apple and Microsoft can’t play together on the school playground. Surprise, surprise.
March 11th, 2006 at 13:52
Surprised? Not me; not one bit. Microsoft has always prided itself on delivering garbage. Why should we expect anything different this time around. Windows Vista is exactly what you describe it to be, and something else, that not many know is that there are already 420 documented virus/trojan variations for the latest ’secure’ build of Vista.
Microsoft CAN’T deliver anything good. It’s simply not in the company’s DNA. They don’t know what good really is so how can they be expected to deliver it. The problem in my opinion is, if it wasn’t for Apple, most people would have nothing to compare Windows to and hence never really know what a good, secure OS should be.
Windows Vista? Please, I wouldn’t install it even if it were free. Then again, I always advise against any Microsoft products and hence why our companies have the best performing, lowest IT costs out there, bar none.
People who go Windows are really uninformed. I mean REALLY. From my experience, its a hands down fact!
Thanks for the article!
March 14th, 2006 at 8:38
Is anybody talking about the possibility of Mac osX on non-Apple hardware… like Dell or HP?
March 14th, 2006 at 11:54
Dell has off the record expressed interest in OS X; however, Jobs has been very clear that he does not want to see an Apple OS on a non-Apple product. Remember, it was he that killed the Apple clones when he returned to Apple.