OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Buying the upgrade copy you mean?

 

Yes. upgrade to Home Premium still costs 100 Euro for the download version. That's too much.

 

http://www.apple.com/osx/server/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Server

"Carry on."

 

Yeah. We were promised XFS what, 8 years ago?

 

Actually taking a stock OSX install and making it into a Unix server is extremely simple. I'm not saying OSX server isn't a good or better product, but I can make a regular OSX install into whatever server you want in a matter of hours or less.

 

Have you checked out Amazon? When Win7 launched they were MASSIVELY cheaper than local retailers, and I seriously doubt buying the OS straight from MS is going to be the most cost-efficient alternative either. Anyway, with Win8 busy slouching towards bethlehem to be born, you may want to simply skip this generation entirely...

I wouldn't suggest holding on to vista for too long though, MS and everybody else seems so eager to dump it like it was radioactive. You better start saving up some cash methinks, or consider switching to linux maybe...

 

IIRC that's because on the first few months Microsoft had some serious discounts for Windows 7 to encourage upgrades. These discounts are mostly gone for now.

 

Could you elaborate this point?

*Microsoft has extended support going till 2017 for Vista
*I haven't seen a single application that works in 7 but not in Vista. Mostly because Windows Vista is very similar to Windows 7 in underlying technology
*I'm having 0 problem running Vista (for a long time now). Most 'bad experiences' posted on the web can be described as follows: bad drivers from device manufacturers, people generally hate change, people don't understand how Vista memory management works (hint: it's a lot better than it was in XP), poor Microsoft marketing (they assumed everybody would upgrade without needing to properly explain why + MS pushing Vista through games with only superficial DX10 support)

 

if it's like windows 2000 vs XP, both OS will be equally supported for years, and they are like 95% the same thing. only towards the end, new APIs or drivers only supported XP SP2 or 2003 (what if you want Powershell, xbox 360 controller etc.)

but when that happens to Vista, you will be able to switch to windows 9, or just not care till EOL.
myself, I did hold out on windows 98 for an unreasonably long time, I had directX 9.0c and .NET 2.0 on it, even Cygwin. running my DOS games natively with fully working sound was just too convenient (some I had carried since 1992). I had to let it go because apps wouldn't care about the 16bit GDI resources limit and would cause graphical corruption.

 

Yeah, Vista SP3 is almost identical to Windows 7 internally.

 

Well, should be an easy hack.

Several 3rd party programs already enable AirPlay functionality in Mac OS X.

 

It actually uses Intel QuickSync

That's why only a limited number of Macs will support it with Mountain Lion.

 

I'd recommend you read John Siracusa's review of OS X Mountain Lion at Ars Technica.

He is always very thorough about even minor changes and differences.

The only issue I have is that it doesn't support Cumulus 7 anymore because it ditched all 32-bit .kexts ... bummer.

 

seems pretty minor (Glad it looks like they havent gone all IOS on us)
for anyone thats used it
did they fix finder?

and for Xcode users, does that semi-work now? (I know working completely would be a huge ask but is it like say MSVC from 1999 i.e. massive improvement), how the hell the programmers that work on XCode get to walk around apple company without getting pelted with fruit is a mystery (perhaps they dont say, I know theres a culture of security at apple, but I thought that was external not internal)

edit - I'll update after the first or second bug fix i.e. 10.8.1 or 10.8.2

 

Fix what exactly?

 

Must be something with your setup. Have it running on my home computer as well as a work computer, no issues.

What Mac and did you do a clean install of Mountain Lion or upgrade? Reset PRAM and repair permissions?