TameBear: Mac Web HostingDesign and technical intel for webmasters hosting web sites on MacOS. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- February 20, 2007 75 Percent of Vista Reviewers Compare Mac OS X: Sample quotes from a dozen different reviews demonstrate how favorable comparisons with the more mature Mac OS X operating system are irresistable. More reviewers are acknowleging features of Vista have been in Mac OS X for years. Ars Technica via MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/20.html#a838 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Windows Defections: Scott Lowe speculates about why, when Vista is now available, the Windows power users -- experts who have championed the Windows platform for years --are switching to Mac OS X. Scott Lowe via MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/20.html#a837 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Broadband Passes Halfway Mark in U.S.: Residential high-speed (broadband) internet access is expected to hit about 55 percent by end of 2007. That's 60 million U.S. households. CNET Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/20.html#a836 (Untitled)- February 15, 2007 U.S. Servers Suck More Power Than Mississippi: Power-hungry servers consumed 45 million kilowatt-hours of power in 2005 - twice the power usage of 2000. One obvious solution: solar powered servers. CNET News.comhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/15.html#a833 (Untitled)- February 5, 2007 Jim Allchin to Microsoft: I Would Buy a Mac Today: The top Operating Systems exec at Microsoft retired a week ago, the day after Windows Vista was officially launched. Presumably now he can buy a Mac. An email Allchin addressed to his bosses Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer nearly three years ago suggests Windows users have a better option in Apple Macintosh computers, because "in my view we lost our way." Read the whole email (PDF) for insight into a very troubled Microsoft. MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/05.html#a827 (Untitled)- February 2, 2007 How Soon are You Moving to Vista: The results of a Cnet poll of over 13,000 readers provides this telling statistic... slightly more than half of the respondents indicate they are "Sticking with the Mac -- or moving there soon". Cnet Pollshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/macWebHosting/2007/02/02.html#a826 |