Snow Leopard versus Windows 7
Neither Windows 7 or Snow Leopard try to reinvent the wheel, but both pack notable new features, large and small.
By Nick Mediati | PC World
Published: 16:37 GMT, 14 September 09
This is shaping up to be the autumn of new operating systems. The latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, started to ship to customers in August. Windows 7, the follow-up to the much-maligned Windows Vista, hits store shelves in late October. Neither operating system will drastically change the way you work.
Windows 7 builds on Windows Vista, smoothing out Vista's rough spots and bringing a number of new end-user features (such as the reworked taskbar) to the table. Meanwhile, with Snow Leopard, Apple focuses on new under-the-hood technologies that offer subtle refinements and fixes.
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Quick Access via the Dock or Taskbar
Some OS X apps can use the Dock's pop-up menus to display application-specific information and to provide easy access to frequently used commands. For example, if you right-click iTunes' Dock icon in Snow Leopard, you'll get a menu that you can use to see what's playing, to play or pause your music, to assign a rating to the current song, and to control other simple iTunes commands. With Windows 7's retooled taskbar, Microsoft introduces a similar feature called jump lists. Jump lists not only provide access to common commands (Windows Media Player's jump list has a Play command, for example), they also let you 'pin' items to a specific list. For example, you can pin commonly used folders to the Windows Explorer jump list and important documents to the WordPad jump list.
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