There's not a huge deal to choose between these assistants on macOS and Windows. Both are well integrated into their respective OSes, both can manage your daily life and look up queries on the web, and both can control various settings and local searches too. iCloud is a slightly slicker option, though OneDrive can do a bit more and work with more devices, so it's about even here.Īs for Siri vs Cortana, again it's about honours even. Microsoft's Office apps remain paid-for extras on top of the operating system itself, though you can access lightweight versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint in a web browser.īoth Microsoft and Apple are improving their cloud offerings after a stumbling start, though neither OneDrive or iCloud offer the same breadth of features and quality of interface that Google Drive and Dropbox do. One could be a facial recognition camera – similar to the predicted 3D scanning camera on the next iPhone – which would unlock your MacBook, iMac or Mac Pro.The integrated apps that come with Windows, from the mail client to Microsoft Edge, are still very much works in progress – they come with enough to cover the basics, though not much else, even if Microsoft is adding new features and extra polish all the time.Ĭompare that with macOS, which throws in a very capable mail client, calendar app, contacts manager and web browser, not to mention a full office suite and a home movie-making program in the form of iMovie. It’s time that FaceTime added this capability. Skype has offered this for a while, and isn’t the only video service that allows more than two participants.
Talking of FCP, it would be great to have a mode to turn off all unnecessary effects and disable low-priority background tasks to give all available resources and processing power to the app you’re using, be that a video editor or a game. This would offer more personalisation and flexibility. And it would also be nice to choose your own tint or highlight colour, as you can in Windows 10. This would be useful when working in dim lighting, but also when you’re using dark apps such as Final Cut Pro. There is a Dark Mode for the Menu bar and Dock, but we’d like to see this extended everywhere.
What features didn’t get announced for macOS 10.13? Dark Mode
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