Comments on: 140 million copies of Vista sold. How does Leopard compare?

By: Anthony, Belleville Michigan

Anthony, Belleville Michigan — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:06:05 +0000

Vista is actually a very powerful and excellent version of Windows. Anyone that tries Vista on a proper machine would have had to have lost their marbles to not see that Vista is better hand over foot. Now there are many people that complain about Vista's performance, it crashing, etc. Vista wasn't meant to be installed on Pentium 3, single core, low Ghz processors. So if you install Vista on that of course you're going to have problems. The other half of the camp that doesn't like Vista is your older crowd that just doesn't want to learn a new O/S.

By: TommyO Grand Rapids, MI

TommyO Grand Rapids, MI — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:08:25 +0000

Sure 140 million copies sold, but I formatted my computer and installed a copy of XP instead. Did they deduct those from the count? I doubt it! Vista is a boat anchor and all the truly smart folk are using XP, Mac, or Linux.

By: Joe, Webster NY

Joe, Webster NY — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:58:41 +0000

I recently bought a lap top with Vista on it. I really didn't have a choice in the OS – and this is where Microsoft is getting all it's sales. That said, it works great and has never crashed in two months. I like it better than XP.

By: dwayne hoobler, SD, CA

dwayne hoobler, SD, CA — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:14:11 +0000

lol haters, i got vista busisess, well, cause i do business. im not some half baked freshmen trying to bit torrent on the fagoogle- soy chai late whiny hater in hand.

if you like apple, get one- but also keep quiet.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:31:14 +0000

"here’s a question, how many of those 140 million copies are actually in use?"

Four — counting Ed Bott.

By: Taojones Huntington NY

Taojones Huntington NY — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:04:50 +0000

Apple estimated that about 19% of the OS X user base was on Leopard by the end of its launch quarter.

one last thought today and a heads up for Mr Munster Leopard will not run on a mac with less than an 850 megahertz processor users (and there are lots ) with older macs CAN'T upgrade I have 3 macs running Leopard and an old dual 450 running tiger. 2 are intel macs and on some jobs the motorola 850 processor burns through them faster than the intel chips. You can't fairly use Percentages of the user base to tell you anything about the success of the popularity of the os. if anything i will have to spring for a new mac this Xmas for my poor kid poking along in tiger on the 450 (ie: the really great OS upgrade is driving the hardware sales)

By: John, Washington, DC

John, Washington, DC — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:08:09 +0000

here's a question, how many of those 140 million copies are actually in use? I know LOTS of folks companies that would probably qualify as a 'sale' and are NOT using the new OS. Can't say I know anyone who is using Leopard in a test environment to see what's broken.

By: taojones Huntington NY

taojones Huntington NY — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:32:59 +0000

How the heck can you get more secure than leopard? the only way to hack it would be for the user to allow remote control and to uncheck all of the default security settings

your hacker conference set you up. any security breeches on the mac have been discovered by eggheads in the college computer labs and apple gets the fixes out there before the damage is done.

the separation of the resource and data forks in the mac is the reason it can not be hacked (you can't hide a malicious piece of code in a document data is not acted upon by the system "toolbox") Windows and vista have to search the entire command line for snippets of executable code and catch the horse once he is out of the barn. one .exe in the text and your in deep doo doo. to screw up a pc you have to work ON it to mess up a mac you have to work AT it!

heres an idea for you pc guys hold a Mac hackers convention prebook about 1000 rooms you will clean up ! …(not)

By: ED, BOYNE CITY, MI

ED, BOYNE CITY, MI — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:23:52 +0000

NUMBERS ARE NICE, BUT HAS ANYONE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE NUMBER OF VISTA OR XP SALES MADE BY INTEL APPLE USERS? I FOR ONE, BOUGHT XP FOR MY NEW MACBOOK.

By: valeriupalos

valeriupalos — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:14:20 +0000

What about the copies of Vista that are shoved down the throats of computer consumers. I bought a ThinkPad T61 few months ago an it had Vista installed. I had no choice!!! That copy of Vista was sold and counted, but the fact that I did not want to use it remained unknown obviously! In fact no one even cared that I did not want to be forced to pay for Vista! That is disgusting…