Sorry, that should be Dissecting Paul Thurrot's Review of Leopard. Anyway onto the dissection!

Unlike Leopard, Windows Vista has been rearchitected from the ground up...

WRONG! Leopard has also been redone from the ground up. Well they both have as far as we're talking. Windows Vista is based on NT6 whereas Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, and Media Centre, were all based on NT5.x. Mac OS X 10.5 is based on Darwin 9.0 whereas Tiger was Darwin 8.x, Panther was Darwin 7.x. Same thing!

...[Vista is] more easily malleable at a low level than were previous Windows versions.

I do recall numerous A/V companies complaining about how they couldn't gain access to the kernel.

Meanwhile, Leopard is an incremental, evolutionary update over the previous release with no major architectural changes, which makes me wonder why Apple is even charging for it: In the Windows world, such releases are called service packs.

Ahem, see above about Darwin and stuff.

Its added a useful if limited new feature called Stacks to the Dock to close the gap with the superior and more logical Windows Start Menu.

The Start Menu can't navigate folders around one's HDD.

In previous versions of OS X, if you dragged a folder to the right side of the Dock, it would act like any other shortcut (excuse me, alias in Mac-speak)

The term Alias has been used since 1992. Get used to it.

Search For, as you might expect, is OS X's answer to Vista's Searches folder. Here, you'll see links to prebuilt searches such as Today, Yesterday, Last Week, and links for searching for images or documents. And as like Vista, you can create your own saved searches. These will automatically show up in the Search For list in the Finder when saved.

Had this since 2005. Vista since late 2006/early 2007.

This feature, apparently modeled after the preview feature in Windows Desktop Search...

Spotlight has had this since it came out in 2005.

When Apple copied Microsoft's instant search feature to create Spotlight...

Microsoft promised instant search by 2003. Apple provided instant search in 2005. How could Apple copy somthing that hadn't been seen?

And for all you DOS-minded folks out there, you can actually use Spotlight to search for file names now

You're a moron, seriously.

For those with multi-Mac households, Spotlight works across the network now, too, which could be useful. You have to enable Personal File Sharing first, however.

I do recall having this feature already. Just today I got something off my parent's iMac.

...no application compatibility mode, no wizard for moving over documents and settings automatically...

We do have an application compatibility mode; Rosetta. We don't need any other. And how would Apple be able to move over the settings from a Windows box? I don't think Apple has access to the inner workings of Windows.

Are there problems with Leopard? Sure. I point first to the price, $129 ($158 in Aus), which is extravagant for a product that's been updated so frequently since 2001.

Hmm, $158 for Leopard or $750 for Vista Ultimate. What to choose?

For all the baloney news stories about Vista's supposed problems, Microsoft's latest operating system is actually a solid effort that finally closed the gap with Mac OS X.

Vista does problems. One laptop I used couldn't even activate Flip3D, the other lost the sound driver then lost the card itself.

...like Vista...

Sorry, he just says it a lot.

Now off to bed!