Apple's Snow Leopard Beats Windows 7 On Price, Ship Date

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Apple's Snow Leopard beats Windows 7 on price, ship date

Exec calls Windows 7 'same old Vista,' but analysts doubt Apple's lower price, earlier launch matter

By Gregg Keizer

June 8, 2009 09:12 PM ET

Computerworld -

"Apple executives took potshots at Microsoft's Windows 7 today as they trumpeted the September release of the company's own Snow Leopard operating system and its $29 upgrade price.

"What a big hole Microsoft has dug," Bertrand Serlet, Apple's head of software engineering, said during the keynote of the company's annual WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opened today in San Francisco. "They're trying to get out of it with Windows 7 [but] it's the same old technology as Vista. Fundamentally, it's just another version of Vista."

But the more Serlet talked up Snow Leopard, the more he sounded like a Microsoft executive outlining Windows 7. Both Apple and Microsoft, for example, have described their next operating systems as less about new features and more about building on the foundation of their respective predecessors, with special emphasis on performance, stability and usability."

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