Well I seem to have been right, again (if I may say so). As I said, in my short blog, the next version of OS X will be the same Leopard – just it will be really massaged – debugged and optimized and turbo charged! Do you draw a similarity with the Microsoft approach here? Windows 7 will be Vista – just it will be really massaged – debugged – optimized and turbo charged! Sacrilege! Apple following Microsoft in to the den of lions, no way! Well yes way!I guess this step on behalf of both companies is the nest logical step. They both have a great OS, and now after all this time, they will step back and improve their respective Operating Systems. Microsoft can go far in fixing the grievances that exist against Vista and make it what PC Users are looking for. They have a great and brand new Code Base that they can modify – fix and optimize to hell, especially in the area of Multi tasking – SMP – Threading and Thread Management. They can also improve the Thread_to_Core development tools in Visual studio 2009 or as a service pack to VS2008. This will also help other Software Engineers to develop that type application, that will certainly makes a better User experience. Apple on the other hand can improve on 64 bit version and in fact make it the de facto of OS X, that can run 32 Apps as well. In time all the Developers will recompile their applications in 64 bit format. Apple has a lot of work to be done on the improvement of her the XCode. In comparison to Visual Studio, XCode is very basic and primitive. So this will be time well spend to set Visual studio as a starting point and then deliver Visual Studio as a minimal delivery cornerstone and surpass it by a long way. Mind you this will prove to be very hard task to achieve, since Visual Studio 2008 is totally amazing. But is great in under promising and over delivering. May be both companies can admit that they have great Operating Systems that is in dyer need of optimization and improvements. Yes Stranger things has happened, but would this also happen? Hard to believe!
“If Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista were graded for its first year, its report card would read, “Not meeting expectations,” analysts said Friday, a year and a day after the operating system code went “gold” and was sent off for duplication.”
I read this Article in ComputerWorld.
That might be true – and I am sure it is. But the problem is that MS has not moved fast enough to release the Service Pack 1 for vista, which in turn would change a lot of opinions towards Vista. Microsoft – get a Move on and deliver SP-1. Only worry that I have right now is this: Once SP-1 is released and Installed – how many other things will break and how many new bugs will be introduced? May be that is the reasoning for Microsoft not releasing Vista Service Pack 1. Test Test Test!