David Pogue's piece on the nascent Windows 7 in the Times this morning devotes a paragraph to what Pogue delicately calls "Apple borrowings," although I have difficulty finding any promised Windows feature on the entire second web page of the article that doesn't already exist in Mac OS X except the aforementioned relics - no supplied paint program and no WordPad. A Mac's supplied bargain-basement Text Edit functions not only as a text editor (think Notepad) but also as a minimalistic word processor with spellchecking that even reads and writes Word files. And, possibly an "improved backup program," whatever that may be - I stopped even thinking about backups with Apple's Time Machine.
Yeah, OK, I know, I'm indulging myself here. Windows 7 is Vista cleaned up some - and hang in there, Windows users, the day will come when you have computers that work too.
In the meantime, if you don't want to wait for it, you can always get a Mac...or, you can get a Mac. Says Pogue:
It’s no Windows XP, but even with months of fine-tuning still to go, 7 feels snappy. (On a Mac, paradoxically, it’s positively supersonic.)
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