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Seems that computer users of Microsoft and Apple are on the warpath as these computer giants. After countless arguments towards the nonsense of Mac OS X greatest ever update - Leopard, which may be combined and united into one statement "I don't pay for service packs".

Well, such sayings are very predictable. But only for those who understand and think of "service packs" as of mostly security updates for Microsoft Windows releases. Apparently, you're not thinking enough. Leopard is a set handful of configurations with a limited set of applications to run.

The Leopard update features:

• GUI (just reminisce Cover Flow, which lets you scan through documents without opening them)
• Time Machine (amazing interface, long overdue)
• Spaces (awesome virtual desktop behaviors)
• Mail updates (To Do, Notes, Stationery, RSS - Outlook killer)
• iChat (live video backdrops, photobooth effects, screen sharing)
• iCal (CalDAV support, auto schedule, event dropbox)
• Dashboard (Dashcode, .Mac syncing)
• Spotlight (search Macs on your network, inline preview)
• Core Animation (for developers who understand design)
• Boot Camp (simple Windows replacer)
  
  

All in all more than 300 new features. Were you expecting that from a so called "service pack" ? If so, then you're a 100% Mac user. These are not trivial upgrades. You combine the features of this list with better parental control, seamless 64-bit  compatibilities, wider accessibility and much more. Just install and test it for your needs. Microsoft’s  Service Packs are free, and they offer us… security updates, which should be free to begin with. Oh yeah, and pop-up blockers for browsers that are sadly past their prime. Still, Windows Live content is worth consideration and use, but Windows Live Writer looses it's appreciation just because a basic user doesn't see it in Windows by default. Apple has invested a significant amount of time to ensure that both our personal and professional lifestyles will be enhanced and extended by Leopard. Microsoft has been shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic - and Windows Vista proves it. I guess it'd be a more constructive business if Windows fanatics could get off their high horses and realize what's happening today. Computers are the center of media-life, not only of the hard working days. It's a beautiful addition and help in many lives today. Leopard looks to be idiosyncratic and entertaining in a way it's hard to imagine a Microsoft product being. When Apple introduces a brand-new user-friendly and powerful Time Machine feature of Mac OS X 10.5, Microsoft has felt the need to introduce Vista's lubricating features such as User Account Control - a function that keeps users aware of dangerous activities on their PCs. But you've got to 
wonder if Apple will be able to stay smug about security – we've been hearing about security holes in Mac OS X, and hackers seem prepared to target it. Let's face it, they weren't going to leave Apple alone forever.

Sidebar in Vista is a pale imitation of features from past Mac OSes and offers nothing original, but it will be unfamiliar to Windows users. Leopard's Web Clips feature, which allows parts of your favorite website to appear as Widgets on your desktop, is by far the outstanding function on offer here.

To make a long story short, it becomes clear why Apple Inc. decides on dissembling its development and new ideas. Apple engineers don't feel fervent about their Widgets becoming Gadgets in Windows Vista, about their Aqua interface turning into an Aero one. But that's just a play of words. If to compare Backup and Restore Center and Time Machine, Microsoft and Apple have both kept all the functions in a single location. But again - how? Microsoft has concentrated on making the interface easier to understand and navigate, although Apple Time Machine is arguably easier to use, just because Leopard Time Machine's space-themed interface won't appeal to everyone. Only to those whom the time of the result matters. Both Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager and Apple Spaces (what a cynic thievery of the word MSN Spaces!) of these features allow you to create virtual environments - separate desktops, in effect - for collections of applications to sit in. This is particularly useful when working on several tasks at once. And again, Virtual Desktop Manager has not been incorporated into Vista; it's part of the free PowerToys download pack, which is currently compatible with XP but not Vista. Spaces is an integral part of Leopard.

Do you want an additional mess in your life? Then instead of installing a non-confident and not truly ready Vista, which has clearly missed computer market's tip, I decide you to install Windows XP with thousands of additions and service packs (as Microsoft sees them).  It is not the Microsoft's early bird that catches the worm. A lenient and smart Apple's cat continues catching all Microsoft's birds and dictating the fashion in the whole computer world, which keeps its almost every invention in vogue.

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