...It's like boxing. When the champion fights a challenger, unless he wins by a knockdown, the champion gets the benefit of the doubt. The odds are stacked in his favor, and the challenger must do better than to just barely win on points. He must have clearly won the fight....
Continuing with your boxing metaphor: MS showed up drunk to this round of the match. But they have some real haymakers that they can throw if they get desparate--like ending Office for Mac.
Still, I have to say that Apple's efforts in Win Safari are pretty bad. I have used many beta programs in the past and Safari is the worst I have tried out in a long time.
Was that a standing bug since April of 2005 or was that something that they just recently discovered? Microsoft has been notorious for leaving ciritical flaws open for years before attempting to fix them. That's part of the reason why I use Apples now, I'd been a Windows user since 3.1. i'll never go back.
Or did they think that submitting the unfinished software to public would help them nail down obscure bugs quicker? It's very probable that they know the newest pre-release of Safari 3 crashes more, they may be in the middle of doing something major to the framework, but i'm pretty sure that the additional million plus eyes noticing flaws will allow them to be exterminated quicker. Maybe they needed the extra help to make Safari 3 solid for October? What better way to expedite fixes than to expose them to the billions of Mac and Windows users?
It's not like this is common thing for Apple, nor is pre-releasing software. The Boot Camp beta has been more solid for me than most final version Microsoft apps.
I'm not sure, honestly. I wouldn't trust either company to tell us the truth about when they knew about the problem and when they actually fixed it.
Boot camp for me has been pretty bad, its no where near the same experience that running on a real PC has been. It blue screened on me twice installing XP with bootcamp 1.1. Its finally to a level where it is close to being used with a real PC, but I had driver issues in Vista, where I had none on my X31 or desktop.
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...It's like boxing. When the champion fights a challenger, unless he wins by a knockdown, the champion gets the benefit of the doubt. The odds are stacked in his favor, and the challenger must do better than to just barely win on points. He must have clearly won the fight....
Continuing with your boxing metaphor: MS showed up drunk to this round of the match. But they have some real haymakers that they can throw if they get desparate--like ending Office for Mac.
Still, I have to say that Apple's efforts in Win Safari are pretty bad. I have used many beta programs in the past and Safari is the worst I have tried out in a long time.
Was that a standing bug since April of 2005 or was that something that they just recently discovered? Microsoft has been notorious for leaving ciritical flaws open for years before attempting to fix them. That's part of the reason why I use Apples now, I'd been a Windows user since 3.1. i'll never go back.
Or did they think that submitting the unfinished software to public would help them nail down obscure bugs quicker? It's very probable that they know the newest pre-release of Safari 3 crashes more, they may be in the middle of doing something major to the framework, but i'm pretty sure that the additional million plus eyes noticing flaws will allow them to be exterminated quicker. Maybe they needed the extra help to make Safari 3 solid for October? What better way to expedite fixes than to expose them to the billions of Mac and Windows users?
It's not like this is common thing for Apple, nor is pre-releasing software. The Boot Camp beta has been more solid for me than most final version Microsoft apps.
I'm not sure, honestly. I wouldn't trust either company to tell us the truth about when they knew about the problem and when they actually fixed it.
Boot camp for me has been pretty bad, its no where near the same experience that running on a real PC has been. It blue screened on me twice installing XP with bootcamp 1.1. Its finally to a level where it is close to being used with a real PC, but I had driver issues in Vista, where I had none on my X31 or desktop.