Leopard/Vista - Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

Oliver Rist writes 'Leopard is the new Vista'. I suspect that Macs have a higher proportion of users in the blogosphere than in the population at large, which may explain these charts:

My take: more people are talking about Leopard problems than about Vista problems (on average) in the last month.

I'm sure if Microsoft were engaging Apple's publicity people we would have seen an ironic twist on this ad by now.

Comments

[Philip Flip Kromer]

Hello,

The problem is that if I post announcing "I installed Leopard and I had no problems <3 mac" it will appear in the results next to "I installed Leopard and have had nothing but problems I'm ready to sue".
0.44 M leopard "no problems" http://google.com/search?q=leopard+%22no+problems%22
2.2 M leopard problems http://google.com/search?q=leopard+problems
1.3 M vista "no problems" http://google.com/search?q=vista+%22no+problems%22
25.6 M vista problems http://google.com/search?q=vista+problems

Here, 20% of the people who were so moved by their Leopard experience they posted about it did so because they were happy; compare with 5% of the people inspired to post about vista did so out of happiness.

Also, the keyword "OS" is highly correlated with Mac OS X Leopard and much less so with vista:

2.83 M leopard +os +problem http://google.com/search?q=leopard+%2Bos+%2Bproblem
5.88 M leopard +problem http://google.com/search?q=leopard+%2Bproblem 48% of total
6.19 M vista +os +problem http://google.com/search?q=vista+++%2Bos+%2Bproblem
50.4 M vista +problem http://google.com/search?q=vista+++%2Bproblem 12% of total

Putting it together:
1.05 M leopard +( "no problem" OR "no problems" OR "no crashes" OR "never crashed" OR "flawless install" OR "everything works")
7.76 M leopard +( "problem" OR "problems" OR "crashes" OR "crashed" OR "painful install" OR "everything is broken")
1.85 M vista +( "no problem" OR "no problems" OR "no crashes" OR "never crashed" OR "flawless install" OR "everything works")
75.1 M vista +( "problem" OR "problems" OR "crashes" OR "crashed" OR "painful install" OR "everything is broken")

==Summary==

Short search:
* 0.20 Happy/(Happy+Sad) ratio leopard
* 0.05 Happy/(Happy+Sad) ratio vista
Long search:
* 0.135 Happy/(Happy+Sad) ratio leopard
* 0.025 Happy/(Happy+Sad) ratio vista

[Dmitry]

For what it's worth, I'm a happy Leopard user. Two Macs, not a single problem and (get this!) everything works, both software and hardware. I've _never_ had such problem free upgrade with Microsoft operating systems, not to mention when migrating from x86 to x64 (Leopard runs x64 apps).