Hoga-Boga

That is the question that Steve Lohr and John Markoff are asking in today's New York Times. They aren't referring to the speed of the actual OS, but rather the speed of the OS development. In the time since Microsoft released Windows XP, Apple has released 4 major OS upgrades, whilst Microsoft is still struggling with their next generation OS called 'Vista.'

Why is Apple able to do what the much larger Microsoft is having trouble with? It all pretty much boils down to compatibility. Apple, with OS X, basically replaced their OS completely. If you wanted to run old applications you had to' (and still have to ) run Classic. Microsoft refuses to break compatibility of any program that may run on the codebase of Windows, and so they need to make sure that' odd little DOS programs will run on their latest and greatest OS.'

An interesting read.