Vista since its release has taken some fairly large criticisms for some pretty high profile places and people, in certain cases for good reason.

Well some of you may or may not heard (if not where have you been?) that Apple have released their new operating system; Leopard. Since it hit our shelves I have been reading the reviews and news about the operating system and so far its been a big success but the cracks are now beginning to appear. On Tuesday I read two stories which would concern me greatly before upgrading;

Firstly eWeek reported that the Leopard firewall is less than capable. Several issues including turning itself off by default on installation, even if a user had the firewall turned on before upgrading and the block all function which doesn’t work.

“The short answer is the Leopard firewall is … ugly and a step backwards from 10.4″said Rich Mogull, an independent security consultant.

Heise Security’s Jürgen Schmidt posted an article that concluded “initial functional testing has already uncovered cause for concern,” in spite of the fact that “Apple is using security in general and the new firewall in particular to promote Leopard.”

Secondly Ars Technica reported on installation woes that users are having. Problems with blue screens of death when certain applications are use and lost user settings after the completed upgrade.

So why haven’t Apple received any serious criticism from online the community? A fairly large security issue on Vista would of had the internet in an outrage but for Leopard, nothing? It makes me wonder if the reason people are so quick to criticize Microsoft for Vista is because they don’t like the software giant.