Windows versus mac - Essay Example

Mac OS X, a proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. The most recent being Mac OS X v10.4, which was first made available in April 2005. Releases of Mac OS X are named after big cats and OS X v10.4 is usually referred as "Tiger". Mac OS X is a Unix-like operating system and the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apples primary operating system since 1984. [W3] The comparisons of Windows Vista and Mac OS X from User-Interface, security, speech-recognition, web-browsing, multimedia authoring, Widgets/Gadgets, kernel and performance perspective is given in following paragraphs.

User Interface (UI): Windows Vista is very attractive, extremely straightforward and easy to grasp compared to Mac OS X. Vista is better looking than OS X, but only in the Aero UI and only at a cosmetic level. This new interface (Windows Aero) is cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing as compared to previous versions. It has features such as new transparencies, animations and eye candy. Security: This is the tough task as Vista is only one month old (commercially). Microsoft Vista includes virus and adware scanners and advanced phishing protection.

On Mac OS X, one can download anything and everything because having secure (or trust) in the knowledge that they will not get logic bombed into oblivion. Worms are rebuffed Mac OS X and Internet hacks are almost non-existent in it. While Vista will definitely have some sort of major exploit, which will emerge within the next year as it is only two months old. (Biggs 2007) Speech Recognition: – Speech recognition is fully integrated in Windows Vista is at it best. Microsoft Speech Recognition, with having supports to several languages, a better interface, a rich and flexible set of commands, and an extensive command-and-control capability to activate the computer by voice.

Voice recognition in OS X is an