VISTA is nice! 1612
Mitch
Um. What? This is just incredibly wrong. The major Windows rewrite (re-implementing a big chunk of the system on top of .NET and replacing the UI model first introduced with Windows 95) was supposed...
To be fair, Apple doesn't promise anything. We have no idea how many features have been cut from each of the 0.1 incremental updates. It could be that many of 10.5's features were supposed to be in 10.4, but were cut and delayed to 10.5. And since 10.0 was released, Apple started on itncremetal update strategy, which makes it easier to release "in a timely manner", since the changes are relatively minor.
Read what Brad Wardell has to say regarding this: "However, where Leopard will be the 5th revision of a very modern OS architecture, Windows Vista will be a brand new OS designed to look like previous versions of Windows. Windows Vista is a major change from Windows XP. It is not as much of a departure as MacOS X was from OS9, but it is a much bigger change than Windows XP was from say Windows 2000."