I just watched the keynote - Time machine will save sooooo much money for corporate users.... They can keep their network drive storage infrastructure and just configure time machine to use it. Restore requests are fairly expensive these days, especially if it's files from the customer's workstation that they were supposed to store on a network drive, but didn't..... (If you haven't watched the keynote, do so now. It's very cool.)
Yeah, Time Machine will be great for a lot of people, especially those that are prone to carelessness or excess stupidity (not blaming anyone, I've done it too). But overall, I was pretty underwhelmed about what we got from the keynote, since we'd already seen most of it.
slightly different subject - web clips make RSS look like ass - Now, all we need is the ability to turn "web clips" widgets into google.com "stuff" I mean, geeks like me loved RSS, but now anyone can do it. And by anyone, I mean your mom - It's not surprising to me that apple understands the need for things like this - it's surprising that microsoft doesn't. It's very easy: If you make things that are cool and simple to use, people will use them. A year ago I showed my mom my customized google homepage with different RSS feeds on it - she loved it, but there is no way she could ever set that up.
Who said it was new? Most of what Apple does is improving the usability of existing tech. Sure, Time Machine is just a super-shiny version of Subversion. But it's (presumably) going to be a plug-and-play one-click setup that's on by default. I think they went a bit overboard with the Apple gloss though... that whole back through space thing goes well beyond their usual superfluous.
well, it's not really SVN, since it handles binary files just dandy - i just don't think it's going to be a whole lot of use to companies, who prefer to have something they have more control over, like VSC.
The reason that I said that it will be big to the enterprise is that users will not have to call the helpdesk to do a restore. I know that there are many other backup solutions used by corporate customers - but with time machine a user can do their own restore without involving the HD or the restore team. That's where the enterprise will love it. Tech companies are doing everything they can to get users to stop calling the helpdesk.
You do know that Server 2003 has volume shadow copy don't you? Enterprise users have had this functionality for some time (plus, show me an enterprise where the majority of the computers are Macs).
Volume shadow copy is NOT THE SAME THING - Volume shadow copy is not available for local drives Hallmark (The greeting card folks) are heavy mac users I know of a fortune 500 company that makes athletic footwear and apparel that does nearly all of their design on macs and much of their sales team uses macs. Major universities are enterprise size and several of them are mostly mac or switching to mac.
