Leopard Release Watch: People must really, REALLY hate Windows Vista

[thatcrazycajun]

...because twice as many customers are ordering Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), due out a week from today, as ordered its predecessor Tiger (10.4), and the Mac Observer website cites one of the two factors given by providers as disgust with Vista (the other being Leopard's plethora of whizzy new features, of which Apple has just posted a video walkthrough on its own website).

Never thought I'd be glad about a WinBlows release possessing Nth-degree levels of suckitude, but hey...Macs gained market share this quarter (up to 6.6% worldwide and 8.1% here in the US of A). And have you noticed, between Jaguar, Panther, Tiger and Leopard, this is probably the most drastic upgrading any OS has gone through without a major version-number change? (As in "no Mac OS XI as yet.")

Comments

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

My impression has always been that St. Stephen would dedicate the whole range of names to big cats, so once he runs out of animals (much like Earth) he'll need to think up a new naming scheme for OS 11. Personally I hope he goes for the German pronuciation, "O.S. Elf", and then he can name each upgrade after a different literary character. Would Dobby, for example, be a better OS than Gimli? It's a thought.