Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”
This Friday, April 29th, Apple releases another major upgrade to their Mac OS X operating system. The new version will include two really great features: Spotlight and Dashboard. Spotlight is a feature that gives you a google-type search for all files on your computer. It searches through text files, emails, metadata, etc…on the fly. This is probably the single feature that I’m the most excited about. The dashboard is a widgets-type application similar to Konfabulator that allows you to have weather, stock, etc all at your fingertips quickly. This may not be the best description of the features of Tiger, so check out some of the resources:
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View: Paul Thurrott’s Apple Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” Review
May 3rd, 2005 at 9:10 am
Bill Gates during talk about Next-Gen XBox:
The Microsoft chairman also drew guffaws when he took a dig at Apple Computer Inc. in response to questions about the rave reviews the competitor’s newest operating system, Mac OS X “Tiger,” received upon release last week.
The overwhelming consensus was that Tiger was far and away the best consumer operating system available now, with Microsoft not expected to match it in features in Windows until the end of 2006 at the earliest in its “Longhorn” system.
Gates said he was pleased that the media were getting excited about computer operating systems. And then he took his jab at Apple, whose share of the consumer market is nearly 4 percent.
“You can always tell if you’re working on a Mac or a PC. Just take your applications and stick them in there and see if they run,” he said, moments after calling Apple “the super-small market share guy.”