What’s the deal with Lion?

Before it even came out, the PC press was desperate to tar it as —not as in “a pleasing view” sense but as in the . Adrian Kingsley-Hughes even called it

Well, the Macalope never personally installed Vista (because it takes a Winotaur to navigate the maze of Windows version options) so, while he imagines it was more painful than a proctologic exam from , he can’t speak from personal experience. About either. Just to set the record straight.

Of course, most of the point of making the Vista comparisons was obviously to get Mac users all riled up, which is why the Macalope ignored them. The two operating systems are hardly comparable. Microsoft foisted Vista on its users after making them wait more than six years for an OS update. It wasn’t a viable alternative, though; most XP users waited another two and a half years for Windows 7 instead, meaning they had ended up waiting for Microsoft to ship an OS update that they could actually use.