Mac Os X Steps Ahead of Windows, written by MATTHEW FORDAHL, begins with:

Tired of waiting while your PC slowly scours its hard drive for a document you stashed somewhere six months ago? Sick of having to change how you work to conform with the computer's rigid way of organizing files? Bored with the flat look of the desktop's graphics?

Uh, I can work around all three of these shortcomings… Copernic Desktop Search takes care of the first two issues, and the third is easily fixed with either Konfabulator (which sucks CPU cycles and memory like they're going out of style) or DesktopX (which suffers from an utter lack of worthwhile, well-designed widgets).

No argument: Tiger made it out the door a lot sooner than Longhorn – and with a lot more polish than Windows XP. Should Tiger be free? No more than XP should have been free for everybody who suffered through Windows Millenium Edition! The article continues:

It's less prone to malicious attacks.

That's because it's not the tallest nail. That's like saying FireFox is more secure than IE, when (in fact) it's just not getting attacked as much because the installed user base is nowhere near that of IE. Trust me, if the market share tables were turned, folks would be saying “IE is more secure than FireFox.” Ah, but we finally get to the reason why the article has an extreme bias in the Mac direction:

I've been trying out Tiger on a borrowed an iMac G5 and my own dual-processor Power Mac G4.

No wonder. MATTHEW FORDAHL is writing like a biased zealot because MATTHEW FORDAHL is a biased zealot.

Topping the list of 200 or so improvements in Tiger is a built-in search tool that goes a long way toward relieving one of the biggest headaches that's plagued computers.

1. 200 improvements – our 14 real improvements and 186 bug fixes?

2. There are plenty of Desktop Search Tools that Windows users have been enjoying for many months now… Google has one, MSN has one, Yahoo! is using X1's code, and I've already mentioned my favorite (Copernic).

Spotlight's speed, even on my older Power Mac, is impressive. Results were on target, too.

Copernic's speed, even on my fiancee's slightly older system, is impressive. Results are on target, too.

Indexing with Windows add-ons is a more computer-intensive process. Most are smart enough to do their work only when you're not working on something, but that means new information isn't always available. I have also found their range of files to be limited.

WTF?!

Well, at least he's giving props to the Windows platform. But what does it mean when he writes “computer-intensive process.” Aren't all computations on a computer “computer-intensive?” You probably don't use a Desktop Search app to look for something you just did – it's when you're trying to find something you did days, weeks, months ago! He may have also found their range of files to be limited because he didn't look far enough into the Options panel (at least, with Copernic – which wasn't even mentioned in this friggin' POS AP release).

Spotlight only searches for files on the local computer, not networked hard drives or remote shared folders.

Awwwwww… MSN does. Oddly enough, when I searched MSN for “desktop search,” the #1 hit was Google's. At least you know MSN is not skewing results o'er there.

But Tiger is about a lot more than look and feel. It's also about looking at more people than ever on your video screen live.

Nobody's saying that OS X isn't slicker looking than Windows – I'll be the first to admit that. But… there's been plenty of software on the Windows platform that will let you do the same thing. PalTalk (with PalPlus6), for one.
Of course, it's impossible to judge how Tiger will compare with the next-generation of Windows since Longhorn isn't available.

Well, Microsoft gets in trouble with the law if they bundle too much with their OS. I'm not against it, mind you, but… you can't have it both ways.

As more details come out, additional complaints of Microsoft copying Mac OS X will surely be heard.

ROTFLMAO! Sounds to me like a classic case of “vice versa.” Methinks Apple's been copying stuff that's already available for (not necessarily with) Windows.

The onus is now on Bill Gates & Co. to see if it can one-up Steve Jobs' shop.

If anybody one-upped anyone here, it was Jobs. And ya know what? He made it look 100x better. I cry foul – Matthew may have been paid to write this article.