Microsoft has been taking more and more hits from Apple. Vista is just like OSX Tiger, so kudos to Microsoft\. The down side is Tiger was released a few years ago.

Releasing Vista with bugs was old school marketing that started in the 1980's when companies began the practice of releasing software and hardware products that were in the Beta stage in order to beat the competition to the market. The consumer loses. I'm afraid that the practice of releasing Beta version software will stay with us for decades until the consumer revolts and stops buying products that are still in the development stage.

i hate vista. microsoft has really set things back. iwould be very happy to get windows 98 back.

Synchronization/compatability with Vista was poorly planned and has irritated many of us . Fortunately XP is still around to bridge the gap while waiting for fixes.

It is a sham by both Microsoft and all the hardware manufacturers to not have software compatabilities ready for all the peripherals which operate flawlessly under XP.

I use AMD processors and hope they come back strong. They offer excellent alternative to intel and very reliable.

"in part because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp their products to work with the new OS"

That is not "in part". It is the main reason why there were incompatibilities. Vista have been available as Beta, RC for a very long time but yet drivers and updates were not created. The reason is very simple: Money. You think Apple will update their drivers for 3 years products? Of course not. They wants you to buy a new ones. Everyone does that. When they don't do it, Microsoft takes the heat as always. With Leopard, the extent of the problems were less severe simply because there are fewers products and Apple fanboys tends to upgrade everything everytime.

But when I got my Vista machine, I had 0 problems. Simply because everything else was also new. New printers, new monitors, new graphics card, new everthing. When I got my new MacBook, I also had 0 problems. Simply because everything I connect to it is also new.

Troublesome release issues with Apple's Leopard OS? Say what? Can't be. Walt Mossberg didn't write about it; David Pogue didn't write about it; PC World didn't write about it; PC Mag didn't write about it; Business Week didn't write about it. After all, whenever Microsoft has some "troublesome release issues" with a piece of software, the whole world hears about it, almost instantaneously. All of the above write about it--loudly, vocifierously, vehemently.  No issue, no matter how small, how trivial, how relatively unimportant goes undenounced or undisparaged.  Now I am sure that these same entities would not hesitate to do the same for Apple if, in fact, the occasion ever presented itself, and with the same denunciatory and disparaging sarcasm that they so unreservedly and so unhestitatingly lavish on Microsoft.  So I conclude that whoever alleges that Apple has had "troublesome issues" with the initial release of Leopard must be guilty of spreading false and malicious rumors, perhaps set in motion by unknown nefarious forces, about that most perfect of companies, Apple computer, Inc. After all, how could perfect, indeed the most perfect, offerings from the perfect company ever be anything less than, well, perfect?

I'd trade in my Vista for Windows Xp in a heart beat.

Familiarity with an O/S helps loyalty and adaptibility.

I didn't want to re-learn techniques that do not add

anything significant.

Other then GREED , what was the point ?

I feel gouged.

I don't really see a problem for AMD. I have been and always will true to AMD. The hell with Ismell.

Do you think Apple is going to begin taking market share away from Microsoft (albeit small) with the release of Leopard and the fact that it runs Vista as well as any PC?

i'm a little worried about AMD's slip-up, myself. i'm of the ilk that chooses one of the two "sides" in the processor wars - between AMD & Intel - and have been a fan (and customer) of AMD since 1998 when I owned my first K6-II 300Mhz processor.

The fact that their stock price has dropped almost 65% leaves me a little worried that they could be in real trouble, especially when you consider the fact that they shelled out $1 billion to purchase ATI and borrowed another billion to pay for that same deal.

On top of this, it means that Intel is in a good position to control a near-monopoly over the processor business if AMD can't recover from their slip.

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