Microsoft thinks the future is about one operating system that runs on all sorts of gadgets. To swipe a line from Yogi Berra, both Apple and Microsoft see a fork in the road–and they’re taking it.
Each uses an Internet service–iCloud in the case of Mountain Lion, SkyDrive with Windows 8–to share data, settings and other items between multiple computers and other devices.īut what’s most striking about Mountain Lion and Windows 8 isn’t the similarities, but their fundamentally different visions. Both draw inspiration from their makers’ mobile operating systems, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Superficially, the two updates share big-picture themes.
Apple’s new Mac software, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, is hitting the Mac App Store today Microsoft’s Windows 8 is due just three months later, on October 26th. We’re about to get answers to that question from both Apple and Microsoft, in the form of major upgrades to the world’s two most popular operating systems. Follow do you prep a venerable computer operating system to flourish in late 2012 and beyond?
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