Monday, September 15, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 2008

comparison between best OS


Booting……….




Installing Software

Mac OS X Leopard


Windows Vista


Launching Software

Mac OS X Leopard

Dock 


 

Spotlight Menu
If you want to quickly launch an application that you don't have an alias for in the dock, you can perform a Spotlight search for the application.


Windows Vista

Start Menu's shortcuts



Closing, Minimizing, and Maximizing/Zooming Windows

Mac OS X Leopard


Windows Vista



Moving and Resizing Windows

Mac OS X Leopard



Windows Vista



Appearance

Mac OS X Leopard



Windows Vista



Application Menus

Mac OS X Leopard

Windows Vista


Mouse Support

Mac OS X



Windows Vista



Email

Availability

Mac OS X

Windows Vista

§  Mail comes with the standard installation of Mac OS X.

§  Windows Mail comes installed on all versions of Windows Vista.

Functionality

Mac OS X

Windows Vista

§  Mail's quick search offers additional options for filtering search results on mailbox and message contents.

§  Searches can be saved and run at a later time as smart mailboxes.

§  Does not support subscribing to and reading messages in newsgroups

§  Does support subscribing to and reading messages in newsgroups

§  Quick search offers no additional filtering options and only searches messages within the current mailbox folder being viewed.

§  Windows Mail offers no way to save searches.

Usability

Mac OS X

Windows Vista

§  The address panel makes adding and searching the e-mail addresses of a user's contacts to an e-mail message simple and straight-forward. Contacts even appear in the same groups the user has setup in Mac OS X's Address Book.

§  Text formatting options are not available within the compose window and must be accessed by opening additional dialogs.

§  Text formatting options appear within the compose window.

§  While adding the e-mail addresses of contacts is straightforward, there appears to be no way to choose from the e-mail addresses of previous recipients as only contacts that are saved in the system are displayed. Searching for contacts is cumbersome and requires additional steps and opening of additional dialogs.

 

Media Playback

Mac OS X

Windows Vista



Browsing Photos

Mac OS X Leopard


Windows Vista



Editing Photos

Mac OS X




Windows Vista


Slideshows

Mac OS X Leopard


Windows Vista




Viewing Files

Mac OS X


Windows Vista





Moving & Copying Files

Mac OS 


Windows Vista


Deleting Files

Mac OS X



Windows Vista



Managing and Uninstalling Software

Mac OS X Leopard

Applications on Mac OS X are easy to uninstall due to their self-contained package design. To remove an application, just drag it to the Trash (and empty it).

Windows Vista