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Monday, April 14, 2008

Apple C&D Incoming in 5…4…3…2

A brassy little outfit called Psystar is getting a lot of attention today for peddling Leopard-compatible desktops. These “OpenMacs,” as the company’s named them, run on Intel (INTC) chips and feature 2GB of memory, a DVD drive and whatnot. They’re built from PC parts and, if you’d like, Psystar will even outfit them with Mac OS X Leopard.

Sounds like a compelling proposition for folks who would like the Mac OS on cheap hardware. Too bad the Mac OS X EULA specifically forbids installing the OS on non-Apple computers. Apple (AAPL) legal is, no doubt, already half-finished with a cease-and-desist letter.

Posted at 11:04 AM PT

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Whatever It Is, You Can Get It on eBay.

Posted at 11:00 AM PT

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“Windows as We Know It Must Be Replaced.” Well, There’s a Truism if I Ever Heard One

redmond-photocopiers.jpg“Windows is too monolithic.” So says Gartner (IT) analyst Michael Silver who, with colleague Neil MacDonald, told attendees of a Gartner-sponsored conference in Las Vegas that Microsoft’s (MSFT) ubiquitous operating system is “collapsing” under the weight of 20 years of legacy code.

Silver and MacDonald argued that the operating system’s evolution is hamstrung by a vast and unwieldy code base that hampers meaningful change. “This is a large part of the reason Windows Vista delivered primarily incremental improvements,” they said. “Most users do not understand the benefits of Windows Vista or do not see Vista as being better enough than Windows XP to make incurring the cost and pain of migration worthwhile.”

Ob-vious-ly. And?

“Windows as we know it must be replaced,” said the two.

OK. But replaced with what?

It should be replaced with a smaller OS, the two analysts said. A thinner, more robust, more modular OS. One that makes application development, support and, above all, the user experience easier, more pleasant. An elegant OS that encourages users to upgrade, rather than desperately cling to older versions.

You mean an OS like … like Mac OS X (AAPL)? Isn’t Microsoft already working on something like that?

Posted at 6:44 AM PT

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

OS X Leopard, Tiger Treated for Feline Distemper

Apple’s latest security updates include so many fixes that you might mistake them for a Windows Service Pack.

Among the 25 issues repaired in Leopard 10.5.1: a major one that resulted in a “potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder” as well as other problems with Time Machine, Firewall, Back to My Mac, Airport and Mail.

The release of OS X 10.5.1 follows hot on the heels of OS X 10.4.11, Apple’s 11th and likely final update to Leopard’s predecessor, Tiger, which patched 41 vulnerabilities in the OS.

Posted at 3:05 PM PT

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