Mossberg on Tiger, XP

Lots of reviews compare Apple's new Mac OS X Tiger operating system to what Microsoft has shown and talked about for Longhorn, the next version of Windows. In his review this morning, the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg makes the Longhorn comparison but also sizes up Tiger against Windows XP.

It might not be the most fair comparison, given that XP debuted in 2001, but it is the Microsoft operating system that will compete against the new Mac OS in the market for the next 18 months, until Longhorn debuts. Writes Mossberg: "Overall, Tiger is the best and most advanced personal computer operating system on the market, despite a few drawbacks. It leaves Windows XP in the dust."

Meanwhile, David Pogue of the New York Times reviews Tiger here. The page also includes a link to a video of Pogue showing Tiger. Among other things, in the review, Pogue pokes a little fun at Apple for claiming more than 200 new features in the new operating system: "Apple's Tiger Web site lists over 200 new features. Not all of them are, ahem, likely to set off a mass exodus to the Macintosh. Will anyone upgrade to Tiger because, for example, 'you can easily find any glyph by typing its Unicode ID'?"

On his Internet Nexus site, Paul Thurrott has been making a similar point with his running "Tiger Feature of the Day" feature.