OK ... In snow leopard, there’s a built in search function that lets you EASILY search for files with a wide variety of parameters, via an intuitive user interface. In Windows 7 (which is REMARKABLY error-free) the ability to find a file ‘out there’ on your spinning media is obfuscated by a interface that was designed by a blind sadist.
How can they possibly be that bad with UI???
Remember, I actually LIKE Windows 7 ...
I won't consider a Mac...even for a second.
Note to all: I will be only able to post every couple of days, if that. Mrs. Swordmaker and I are leaving for a ten day cruise to Alaska. I'm not going to pay the $25 for 20 MB of downloads the cruise line wants to have internet access, so I will only be able to post when my iPhone has connection in port.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Snow Leapards and the Seven Window Dwarves... ping!
Difference:
OS X - Apple knows their customers are the people who will actually be using the OS.
Windows - Microsoft thinks their customers are Dell, big corporate IT buyers, and DRM-obsessed big-money MPAA/RIAA content sellers.
Unix© vs. OS/2 3.0A complete re-write of the code vs.
this season's shade of lipstick on NT.
I’m running Windows 7 Professional, and although I like it and think it’s much better than Vista, there are a few shortcomings. Here’s what I’ve observed:
1) Search. How can you make search actually find anything? My search returns NOTHING! Seriously, search *.* in any folder and Windows can’t find a thing. Search for the exact file name and it still finds nothing.
2) Screensaver. If you do the photos screensaver, Windows will only include photos in the folder you point it to, but not subfolders. So files in the folder “My Pictures” will show up, but not files in “My Pictures\vacation”. To get around this you need to use Windows Live Photo Gallery as your screensaver, but at least there’s a workaround. Vista did not have this problem.
3) Opening multiple files (also a problem with Vista.) If I highlight a txt file and a doc file then press enter, in XP they both would open. Since Vista that functionality is gone.
4) Canon Camera software (maybe not a Windows problem.) I can’t get my Cannon Camera software to work in Windows 7, although it worked fine in Vista. Windows 7 seems to want me to only use their built-in image downloading tool, which I’m not a fan of.
5) Homegroups and sharing. Giving read/write permissions while using homegroups is not intuitive. The help files tells you to enable read/write access, but then does not tell you how to do that. Homegroups are only marginally better than using “Network” to find files, and I think they’ll probably improve upon the concept in the future.
6) MSDN AA activation. It’s clearly spelled out in the EULA that I can install my copy of Windows 7 on two (or more?) machines, but MS won’t let me activate the second copy. I shouldn’t need a second key, but I may have to get one to continue to use Windows 7.
It also seemed that a fresh install was fast (well under an hour), while an upgrade from Vista Pro took a few hours.
Have a safe trip!