![]() ![]() I returned back to college two years ago, and wanted to have a good laptop/tablet mix to take with me to school, so I bought the Surface Pro 1. I'm glad that they've finally put forth a product that is worthy of Mac OS (and potentially better), but they've really pissed me off enough that I won't be buying a Windows product (other than a Lumia 640) for a while. The best feature of osx is its marketing I think.įorgive me for saying this, but I'm quite frustrated with Microsoft. I watch my wife use her Mac and I cringe at all the drop down menus, the stacks of partially windowed applications in layers, not to mention the mess that the file browser is. Some real progress was made with new and novel user interfaces that really help us interact with computers in a more useful and productive way. But it took some kahones to put out Win8 and say look, this is another way we can interact. While the converse may also be true, MSFT moved too fast for the human animal to keep up, we are creatures of habit. Apple didn't innovate, and tried to rest on previous decades' old sucesses. Apple got crushed by windows 95 when msft put all the pieces the industry had together in one OS. In the years since, they're basically doing what teenagers do to their hand-me-down honda that dad gave them run down to the auto parts store and by some chrome trim, a loud muffler, and a new leather gear shifter knob. OSX in its current incarnation is incredibly stagnet and is essentially the same as it was at inception. It seems to me that Apple is making the same mistake that nearly killed the company the first time around. Is this the direction that OSX is going? WinRT where everything must reside in an APP? I doubt it, but if that is all they could muster. ".El Capitan brings a new Split View feature that lets you view two apps at once side by side." <- this might just be poor journalism, but only APPS? (not applications). Better to read the running blog on gizmodo to get a grip on the actual use. It's not perfect but really, no contest between el captain and w10 unless you specifically require the Apple offering. It still needs polishing and they're are some odd things in the settings menu that go no where but I'm guessing msft is working hard to sort these little quirks out. The stand out feature for windows 10 is that they sorted it out: The ui, memory management on the whole is better. It's just a meta info gobbler like siri and google now and frankly out can be ignored. In Enterprise it'll be ignored and really ego is going to talk to their computer, especially in an office. I have to say that singling out Cortana as a stand out feature is just odd. But really, were anyone actually expecting anything else!? Apples os is really a very specific anomaly, and there's a reason most use windows. That is a real bug bear, when working with logic or something. It is great to see what Microsoft has done so far, and how they are out-pacing Apple in a number of ways with the new operating system. These are just small portions of the comparison, but you should take some time and check the full thing out. You can then save the marked-up page, add it to OneNote or share it with others These include a digital pen and highlighter for marking up pages (best with a pen or touch screen, but it works fine with a touchpad), as well as a way to insert typed notes on the page. ![]() With the new Edge browser in Windows 10, Microsoft cleared away the clutter while adding clever new tools.Where the heck is Siri for the desktop, Apple? Cortana gets smarter the more you use it, but you can personalize it right off the bat via the Notebook settings. Like Google Now, Cortana provides cards that give you a quick glance at the weather, news, sports scores, restaurant recommendations and more. Cortana, a voice-enabled personal assistant that does more than just answer questions, is the star of the show for Windows 10.The good news for Mac owners is that El Capitan brings a new Split View feature that lets you view two apps at once side by side. Apple is playing catch-up with multitasking, and Microsoft is pulling ahead.Some of the highlights from the comparison include: ![]()
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