Must… resist… urge… to… use… “cat is out of the bag”… pun… in… headline…
Newsweek’s Steven Levy gets Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Jim Allchin to piss all over each other’s operating system.
Says Jobs: “Microsoft has followed our taillights for a long time. Maybe [in the ’90s] we stopped innovating for a while, but now they’ve been copying OS X the same way they copied Mac.”
Allchin described Mac OS X 10.4 as “a peripheral to the iPod.”
Free update set to be released on April 29:
For the new version we’ve focused in three major areas – Tiger support, internationalization, and bug fixes.
Mac OS X Tiger is right around the corner and Delicious Library 1.5 has been optimized to run flawlessly with it. We’ve also added new features to take advantage of the many new exciting Tiger technologies including Spotlight and Dashboard.