Leopard demolishes Vista in a classy, coherent upgrade according to Slate Magazine on Wednesday. Apple has underpromised and overdelivered while Vista’s techincal improvements remain difficult for users to appreciate and utilize.Apple’s OS update approach stands in sharp contrast to Microsoft’s. While Apple remains modest in its numbering system and includes lots of new features in periodic releases, Microsoft “trumpets each new version of Windows as an epochal breakthrough, thereby raising expectations so high that it can’t possibly meet them,” Harry McCracken wrote.
As a result, Microsoft’s “The Wow Starts Now” campaign, intended to create wonder has simply resulted in users being speechless and full of desire to cling to a six year-old XP. Read the full review on Slate.Com (via MacObserver.com)
