OS Upgrade Microsoft vs Apple: The parable of the boiled frog

The parable of the boiled frog says: If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, then the frog will jump out because the change is too great too QUICKLY. To successfully boil the frog, you must SLOWLY change the heat , so that the frog gets time to adapt…and cook.

Microsoft has planned a frog-boiling party in the first part of 2007 when Vista is released and everyone has to switch AND upgrade their hardware to enjoy the benefits. Apple boiled a whole bunch of OS X frogs a few years back by allowing users to slowly migrate. Here’s an article in eWeek about the rollout of Microsoft’s next OS, Vista, versus the way Apple computer did the rollout of OS X.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2011142,00.asp

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