Is that even a word? Perhaps I should quote Blanche Deveraux, “I’m stunned. Just Stunned. Stunned can’t begin to express how…stunned I am.”

Today has been one HELL of a day. Started off bad, work made it worse, too much to do, not enough time to do it, now I live with that ever constant decision, work all day and all nite or have a life… sigh.

Even though that’s weighing heavy on my soul, it’s not what this post is about. It’s another, get ready for it Apple Rant. Now once again to my Windows friends out there, I don’t want emails and IM’s telling me all the reasons I’m wrong, I am sure they are some and that you might even be right, but get your own blog and start spouting about Microsoft, this is my blog and it’s all about me!

Howerver, if you do have something to say… feel free to in A COMMENT. That’s what it’s there for. Tell the world (or at least my readers) what you think.

Ok…

Now there has been more than a few Tiger vs. Longhorn articles recently. I’d like to say first of all, how is this even possible to compare a FULLY BAKED, RELEASED OS (Tiger) to a Pie In the Sky, barely beta ready OS (Longhorn). I don’t see how Microsoft can (and they are in many ways) claim that Apple has stolen functionality from Longhorn. Excuse me… your OS isn’t done. It doesn’t work. It’s not real. The technology in question is Spotlight. Apple not only has figured it out, but it’s out now. I don’t get it, ast time I checked Apple has Mac OS X 10.4 coming out on Friday, and Microsoft just released another DEVELOPER BETA of Longhorn.

On to that… This morning Ed sent along some screen shots of Longhorn. I was truly kind of excited, I mean yes, I am an Mac geek but I am still above all a technology whore. Well to that let me say…YAWN. How boring. It looks like XP. It doesn’t look like what they were pushing THIS TIME LAST YEAR! But they did over a year extend the date (late 2005 to late 2006) and strip out lots of features…I mean Bill touted WinFS as the core of Longhorn in 2003 and now it’s not coming out with Longhorn in late 2006, I mean what’s up with that? I also don’t understand how every little event causes Longhorn to be delayed! Patches, bug fixes, service packs? Isn’t this the world’s largest and most profitable software company?

It appears that I am not the ONLY one who feels this way. Paul Thurrott a Windows Guru and Advocate is actually quite disappointed with Longhorn, he actually said “Longhorn is in complete disarray and in danger of collapsing under its own weight.” He has nothing good to say and actually feels pretty much the same as I did, and he was there for the presentations! Presentations where they promised more polished features, but again it’s a year later and this beta looks worse, and feels like another Microsoft “polish the shinola” effort. Delays, stripped features and “hey you stole something we don’t even have yet” leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Microsoft is really starting to wear thin on me.

I think this might just sum it up. The other day, I was having a conversation with Fig about Tiger and Apple and how this releasing an OS upgrade approximately every 18 months is getting old. This is true. It really is, however, I buy them. Not cause I need to but cause I want them. Apple OSes bring new software, neat features, cool additions make it worth while. Not so with Microsoft. I routinely choose Windows 2000 Professional over XP. It’s cleaner, smaller and I can do all the same things as with XP. I realize that it’s a good thing Microsoft doesn’t update their software that fast, I just wouldn’t buy it.

I know I’m a Mac Geek but there are reasons I swear! For one, why does OS X come with tons of software apps and Windows comes with only a handful of useless ones? I mean Address Book in OS X is so much more than Windows Address book. iSync? iCal? iChat AV just to name a few. What does Micosoft give you? Solitaire.

There really is a better way people, it’s Macintosh. Seriously, go try it.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming!