One thing for sure the boys at Microsoft had better get busy as the boys over at Apple are going to start putting the hurt-locker on Microsoft. The announced features to MAC OS X Tiger are not due to be out until 2005 but I even had to say wow. One thing I find very intriguing is the Apple’s big push into RSS. Seems Safari is going to get some serious enhancements.
My question is when is Microsoft going to invest some money in Internet Explorer. When my 14 year old tells me Firefox is a lot cooler that IE then it is obvious that Microsoft is loosing their edge. [Apple]
So long as Microsoft continues to ship IE and open their OS up to a million and one security holes, everyone has the chance to jump ahead of them – not just Apple. If the department of homeland security is telling people to avoid IE, it’s really bad. Personally, I think OS X has been way ahead of anything Microsoft has had to offer since 10.1.
If MS went big with XML and RSS years ago, they sure forgot to tell the end user. I don’t recall IE or Outlook taking advantage of RSS, furthermore Apple’s pre-X releases were miles more stable than what MS had to offer regardless of filesystem type (with the exception of Windows 2000 at that point).
Microsoft HAS gone big on XML and RSS years ago… If anyone is jumping on the bandwagon after the ship has been sailing for years, it’s apple
Same with database based filesystem