From Christopher Saunders @ internetnews.com:
Apple's Snow Leopard puts the industry to shameIt's not just Apple; both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 are relatively minor upgrades largely focused on performance, polish, etc., and neither really pushes the limits of your hardware. But it's not just Apple and Microsoft, either. It fits neatly into an idea of a "good enough" revolution, which Wired wrote about in its September issue.
"In the age of Windows Vista, this seems incredible," writes Saunders. Maybe it would have then -- but we're no longer in the age of Windows Vista. Nowhere close.
The fact that a new OS doesn't require new hardware isn't reason to celebrate in and of itself. It's only reason to celebrate because the changes we've been seeing in operating systems don't seem cutting-edge enough to warrant new hardware. So, as we relish only having to pay $30 to load Apple's latest and greatest onto our computers, perhaps we should shed a lone tear for the age when a new OS simply couldn't run on old hardware -- when it was actually progressing by leaps and bounds.
We've moved on. Oh well.
Or maybe we haven't.
Whatever.
