Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-06 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:27 PM 05/03/2007, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Thane Sherrington wrote: At 02:20 PM 03/03/2007, Chris Shaw wrote: I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-06 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thane Sherrington wrote: :: At 01:27 PM 05/03/2007, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: :: :: ::: Thane Sherrington wrote: At 02:20 PM 03/03/2007, Chris Shaw wrote: : I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The : reason the Japanese have : been so successful with cars

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 02:20 PM 03/03/2007, Chris Shaw wrote: I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving what already works, instead of reinventing all over

RE: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-05 Thread Jason.Tozer
To be fair, is it wrong to incorporate a feature from somewhere else? Wouldn't it be the most idiotic buisness practice to have a policy of Do not implement anything that a competitor has done already? I actually have Vista and OSX dual-booting on the same PC (its a hackintosh). I like both,

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:20 PM 03/03/2007, Chris Shaw wrote: I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving what already works, instead of reinventing all over again. Isn't that that

Re[2]: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-04 Thread Joe User
Hello Thane, Sunday, March 4, 2007, 10:26:45 AM, you wrote: At 02:20 PM 03/03/2007, Chris Shaw wrote: I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving what already works,

[H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Shaw
I just wanted to thank you personally for this post. It is another of the long list of the stay away from Vista articles that have put me off Vista for at least another year. I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-03 Thread JRS
I sure wish Apple would sell OSX for PC's. We know they could do it. I think it would be a gold mine for them.. :) I just wanted to thank you personally for this post. It is another of the long list of the stay away from Vista articles that have put me off Vista for at least another

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-03 Thread Gary VanderMolen
I've never understood why MS just didn't improve on XP. The reason the Japanese have been so successful with cars (Toyota, Honda, etc.) is because they just keep improving what already works, instead of reinventing all over again. I suppose at some point the OS source code would get so

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-03 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side) I suppose at some point the OS source code would get so convoluted from all

Re: [H] Re: Apple OS X vs. Vista (Apple side)

2007-03-03 Thread Rick Glazier\(Gmail\)
First time I heard those types of rumors was with Win95... A big freepatch CD... The only time I remember it happening was when they screwed up Office97 so bad (before anybody had broadband) that the patches were so big it turned it into a free re-release on a CD and they even had to give you new