Mountain Lion

Windows 8 released, one-third of users consider Apple

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> Most Windows users in the U.S. know about Windows 8 but few have immediate plans to upgrade to Microsoft’s newest operating system.

> What’s more, about one-third of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP users who are ready to buy a new personal computer say they intend to switch to an Apple product.

Fascinating numbers for me, but they must be frightening for Microsoft. Imagine that one-third of your customers — 350,000 people in this survey — decide that your product is so bad, they are switching to the competition. Microsoft has run out of goodwill from its users.

Apple releases Mountain Lion v10.8.1

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The update contains the following changes:

* Resolve an issue that may cause Migration Assistant to unexpectedly quit
* Improve compatibility when connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server in Mail
* Address an issue playing audio through a Thunderbolt display
* Resolve an issue that could prevent iMessages from being sent
* Address an issue that could cause the system to become unresponsive when using Pinyin input
* Resolve an issue when connecting to SMB servers with long names
* Address a issue that may prevent Safari from launching when using a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file
* Improve 802.1X authentication with Active Directory credentials

Bring back Web Sharing in Mountain Lion

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Adam Engst:

But it’s important to distinguish the marketing discussion of new features from release notes about precisely what has changed, and one change might have escaped your notice: the elimination of the Web Sharing options in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Adam gives a couple of suggestions on how to bring the feature back for those that need it.