Why Panther may tear up Longhorn
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Who will emerge as the king of the desktop OS jungle: Apple's Panther or Microsoft's Longhorn?
Sorry, Linux desktop fans: When it comes to desktop operating systems, it's currently a two-way race between Windows and the Mac OS. While Microsoft's market share dwarfs Apple's, the GUI diehards have keep each other busy for nearly two decades-and end users have regularly reaped the benefits of that competition, thanks to upgrades designed to top the competition's features and performance.
This week, the cross-platform debate's been hot and heavy. Is Microsoft racing to catch up to Panther, the Mac OS X upgrade due to roll out at June's Worldwide Developers Conference? Should Apple be running scared after Microsoft's demos of its Longhorn OS at last week's Windows Hardware Engineering conference?