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Apple Computer said on Tuesday it will preview Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, at a developers conference in June.

Chief executive Steve Jobs plans to show off the new operating system software during a keynote address on 28 June to kick off the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

The Mac maker offered few details, saying only that Jobs will "offer a preview" of Tiger. Apple has thus far said little about the latest cat, which follows other Mac OS X releases that bore code names such as Puma, Jaguar and Panther.

Apple postponed last year's developers conference from May to June so that it could preview Panther, the current version of Mac OS X, which went on sale in October.

If Tiger goes on sale this year, it would mark the company's fifth version of Mac OS X in five years. In the same period, Microsoft has released one major version of Windows -- XP -- along with various updates. Longhorn, the next major release of Windows, is not expected until the middle of 2006, at the earliest.

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Well, congratulations but if Microsoft had released a new version of Windows - and made people pay for it, no matter how small the differences (i.e. bye bye free service packs), I wouldn't be very happy about it.

But, of course, Apple is actually adding stuff to them. And you gotta admit they look nice...

via Facebook 5 May, 2004 08:45
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ZDNet measure the two operating systems as though they think that the MS strategy works better. It clearly doesn't. I would much rather pay for my yearly OS evolution than download monthly patches that break patches, and install service packs that are really upgrades that just plaster over the endemic problems within the core system anyway!

You simply can't measure a yearly OS release with a single release in four years and multiple patch strategy! This is another ZDNet-in-bed-with-MS article which tries to put off potential Apple customers with FUD.

Windows has a lot of good technology, and XP more life left in it yet. But let's be more open and honest about the real issues behind Longhorn's delay: they can't innovate like Apple can. Mac OS X is clearly not only a beautiful OS but technically superior in every respect. What ZDNet fail to say is that by the time the first release of Longhorn comes along, Apple will be miles ahead and OS X far moe advanced and refined...

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