Apple Declares War on Microsoft and Windows Vista.

As usual, Steve Jobs keeps a tight secrecy before every major event. But when he finally decides to reveal his plans, you’d better take your heart pills. This year’s WWDC is no exception.

Even before the official opening of Apple’s biggest manifestation, there were clear indications that Microsoft and Windows Vista are targeted. PR managers (or some other guys at Apple with a lot of courage) have thought at dubbing Leopard, the next upgrade for Mac OSX, exactly…Windows Vista 2.0! An occasional photographer captured this picture of a banner from Moscone Center. Moreover, a slogan written on another banner says “You’ve come to the right platform” a clear shot at Windows platform.

Apple has begun surging into Windows’s market share from last year, after the announcement concerning the shift from IBM-produced processors to Intel-produced ones. The increase in performance was obvious and financial results started to go nuts. This shift, which is nearly complete, has helped propel Mac sales, which grew nearly 20 percent to $1.9 billion in the most recent quarter. "It'll mean they've turned around the entire line in nine months and not one year," said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for the NPD Group, a research firm.

From the exclusivist and restraint area Apple had until a year ago in the PC domain, the Cupertino-based company moved to a broader and more popular brand, and thanks to Intel they managed to gain a lot of positive reviews from IT technicians and end-users.

Apple’s “leap ahead” is now completed by the new series of high-end desktops Mac Pro, which are destined to replace the PowerMacs. The new Mac Pro with Dual Core Xeon 5100 should be the end for all IBM-powered Macs. Xeon 5100, previously code-named Woodcrest, will probably offer a dazzling speed for the high-end desktop, but for a price which could make anyone think twice: $2,499, standard version.

The Mac Pro will include Intel’s Dual-Core 64-bit Xeon 5100 series processor (which by the way, was meant to regain from AMD’s Opteron’s the king’s crown in the servers area); it will run at speeds of up to 3 GHz with 4 MB of shared L2 cache. Each microprocessor will have independent 1.33GHz Front Side Buses (FSB), with 21 gigabyte per second (GB/s) processor bandwidth. The processors are fed by four-channel, 256-bit 667MHZ fully-buffered memory, up to 16GB—twice as wide as the memory bus in a G5 and faster.

“It’s an amazing processor to put in our products, but in every Mac Pro we’re going to put two of them,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product market.

source: http://www.playfuls.com/news_03848_Apple_Declares_War_to_Microsoft_and_Windows_Vista_at_WWDC.html


As for my input on this looks like Apple and Steve Jobs is back at it again and going to bring more surprises into the Computer Industry. I just cant believe I thought a couple of years ago Apple was dead and PC and Windows was going to rule everything. I have always been a Apple fan, I owned Windows Computers before for my gaming but now Apple is coming back strong and realizing there Operating System is so much more stable and right out of the box you are ready to go. Now for the new Intel Core processors on the Macs and powerbooks it is amazing how they pull it off by running the OS X operating system and the Windows XP operating system, Now I wonder if you will be able to run the Windows Vista Operating system on it as well. Which I'm hoping so cause I know Windows Vista is going to be 64 bit. We will find more info on that on the next couple of days or weeks, but it is going to be interesting. Which I have to say I'm really excited about.