Has Leopard fallen into a Copland-Vista Conundrum?

Here’s an interesting article comparing the delay of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to stalled code for OS 8 (Copland) which never appeared, and to the delays of Microsoft Vista. It’s fairly well-blanaced and makes some interesting points, though it’s got a visible Mac bias. (You can’t bash Microsoft’s hardware record based on the Zune without mentioning their insane success with the XBox line, for example).

I’d totally back Microsoft doing a full rewrite of Windows from a stable base up. It really did wonders for the stability of the Mac and it would certainly plug a significant number of the security holes in Windows. The risks are so great, though, that I have trouble believing Microsoft would actually do it. Maybe as a side-project with clear acknowledgement that it’s not going to be compatible with Win 98-level legacy code…

Anyway, a good read, worth checking out.

A few notes of importance

First, the archive is empty. I’m working on it.

I’m also working on the Online Comics Day website. Online Comics Day is May 5th, so obviously I have a bit of a deadline on that one.

Both of these activities would not be of note except that my aunt is dying. I don’t know when I’ll be interrupting my existing schedule to fly to Colorado, but it’ll likely be sooner rather than later.

For similar obvious reasons, updates might get flaky. Thanks for your patience.