Microsofts next-generation operating system is coming in early 2007, offering improvements that are both impressive and unprecedented in the Windows world. On Apples side of the world, Tiger, the 5th incarnation of Apples legendary OS X operating system is still up to challenge as to what Vista has to offer, even if its already two years old.
Although Vista and Tiger are almost playing in the same field in terms of features and technology, theres a major difference in the strategy that the two companies made in delivering their next-generation operating systems. Microsoft wanted to bring everything new and shiny to the table all in one big package, while Apple slowly built and perfected a world-class operating system by frequent, less dramatic, major upgrades. This explains why while Windows XP stayed for 5 years without a major upgrade, OS X had 3 major upgrades to its original incarnation in roughly the same time frame.
User Interface
The most noticeable improvements happen here, and rightfully so, since improvements in the user interface are the ones that affect the users first and foremost. Vista seems to have taken many pages from the Tiger book of...