A moment of fun
- Published October 31st, 2007 in Rant
Every time I need to release some stress I point my web browser to either Neowin or Paul Thrurrott’s Windows Super Site.
Take a look at this comment from Paul:
That said, there is one real difference between Vista and Leopard. Unlike Leopard, Windows Vista has been rearchitected from the ground up into a componentized new OS that is both more secure and more easily malleable at a low level than were previous Windows versions. Of course, Microsoft abused this functionality and its user base by bifurcating the Vista product line into far too many versions, and packing the best features into the most expensive ones. Meanwhile, Leopard is an incremental, evolutionary update over the previous release with no major architectural changes, which makes me wonder why Apple is even charging for it: In the Windows world, such releases are called service packs.
Right, so when you do changes to the underlying structure of an OS that’s broken from the beginning in terms of security and you try to fix that than it’s fair to charge $399 for the product. Since Apple didn’t suffer from Windows buggy architecture and did not need to fix major flaws related to security, than it’s not worth a product and you shouldn’t charge users and just provide it as a “Service Pack”.
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