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

MAC Vs WINDOW

Difference between MAC and WINDOWS

First Windows is based upon a DOS programming language (think of it as the foundation for the operating system); Mac is based upon unix programming language, (linux is also based upon unix as well.)

Macintosh is often more secure than windows due to less attempts at hacking because the majority of computer users use Windows.

Macs tend to focus on graphics and multimedia while Windows focuses on office function.

Short history of PC v Mac

Macs and PCs are both computers but with different histories. Primarily, the difference between the two is the Operating System and Processors.

Macs are based on the Unix operating system which was originally developed at Bell Labs (now part of Lucent) in the late 60s (1969 to 1971). The Unix OS was designed from the beginning to be a fault-tolerant, multi-threated and multi-task capable OS for AT&T (the original phone company) to run on its CO (central office phone switches) boxes (Do you remember the little red brick buildings in your neighborhoods? Those were the CO phone the neighborhood phone network). That's a SHORT history of UNIX.

From this original unix os general public license was developed, and unix evolved into the different major branches of unix: AT&T's Unix, IBM's AIX, HP's UX, SCO's version, and Sun's Solaris.


PCs developed a bit later from a combination of three companies who desired to bring computing to the masses. Microsoft, Intel and IBM. Ibm produced the first PC in 1981 with the OS by Microsoft (DOS), and the cpu by Intel.

Apple also came out popularly around this time but the Apple 2e series hit the market in 1983/4 - but it also ran DOS. Later versions evolved to run Apple's Unix OS.

In short, Macs ARE generally faster and stabler than celeron based home PCs. Macs are also A LOT more expensive than PCs, which is why can't outsell PCs.
Macs originally developed a closed standard of sales: PCs evolved into the OPEN-standards that we see today: Many brands of PCs, and white boxes (PC clones).

Apple refused to open its hardware standards like Intel, IBM. In fact, one of the earliest brands of PCs was Compaq.