I got me a MacBook 1516
Vista's Make Or Break Moment a tidbit... "Testers said that if the next build of Vista doesn't improve dramatically, Microsoft will have a tough time sticking to the outline the company issued in late...
How about directly accessing the operating system?
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"Important: Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. Therefore, you should develop Cocoa applications using Objective-C to take advantage of existing and upcoming Cocoa features."
Objective-C is an outdated language because it requires manual memory management, which slows down programmers to a crawl. In the Microsoft world everyone uses C# for new software development. Microsoft's compebreastors such as Oracle use Java for desktop applications. C# and Java are modern languages with automatic memory management. Apple supports Java, but if you want to write great apps you have to access OS features directly, and that is where Apple is discontinuing support. Objective-C may have been a fine language a decade ago. Today it is outdated. Requiring Windows programmers to learn this outdated language that no one but Apple uses, before they can begin programming for Mac OS X, is a big mistake.