Posted by sjs
on Monday, April 16
I may be doing some .NET development on Windows this summer so I booted into Vista and installed Visual Studio 2005. That entailed installing VS, an SQL Server service pack followed by VS SP1, and finally a VS SP for Vista, which means I spent some time poking around Vista too.
I won’t lie, most of the time I just played poker but I did get more comfortable with Vista. Let me just say as a Windows refugee this release may change my opinion of Windows as a horribly broken OS which should be scrapped as a failed endeavour…
Posted by sjs
on Thursday, April 05
From The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (the emphasis is my own):
Unix derivatives such as Sun’s Solaris, Cal’s BSD Unix, and later Linux have grown to serve key roles as network servers. DOS was eventually replaced by Windows, which sports some of the user interface features pioneered by Mac OS such as the desktop, as well as some of the underlying ideas behind Unix such as preemptive multitasking. While Unix systems remain in the lead for reliability and scalability, and Mac OS continues to push user interface innovation forward, Windows has successfully narrowed the gap in both areas.
That last bit highlights exactly what I find so great about OS X. I love the power of Linux but the UI is lacking (uniformity of keyboard shortcuts, X is still antiquated1 despite X.org’s fantastic efforts to bring it up to speed). I have the best, and worst, of all worlds now though.
Why triple-boot when I already have Parallels desktop? I wanted to try out Vista on the only machine I have capable of running Aero. I need IE7 regardless so I figured why not. I can’t form a fair opinion of Vista without seeing it on real hardware either and family members have been asking me about it.
I run Windows XP (stripped with nLite) in Parallels on my MacBook which is great for IE6. I had Windows XP installed with BootCamp as well and used that same installation with Parallels Desktop, but it was somewhat slow so I decided to change things up. I wanted to try out Vista, install a fresh copy of OS X, and just for the hell of it throw a penguin into the mix as well…
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