1. I heartily disagree. Windows is principally excellent, it only has a number of flaws, like almost anything.
And i heartily disagree with that. Windows has many design flaws, it's a lazy implementation of a bullshit operating system design.
Having said that, it's the best system out there for Average Joe and Average Corporate Joe, for a number of reasons;
- It's interface has been around since the days of Windows 95 and NT4, that's 15+ years, and people are used to it.
- It features the biggest repository of application software
- Supports almost every home & SOHO hardware device money can buy.
- Microsoft's monopoly and market politics have rendered them into #1 choice for office information systems, not going into quality here, but...
- Windows dekstops/workstations naturally integrate into that kind of environment.
Back to original topic...why is Internet Explorer still the #1 choice around offices and such? Because it seamlessly integrates into Microsoft Active Directory, which is a centralized domain control system where you can control all your computers from one place with user/group policies, rights, etc...administrator can "push" and control Internet Explorer configuration / security settings and updates nice and quick from a single server towards
n computers.
Opera and Firefox, miles ahead in browser area...can't. I mean they can, with tweaks and hacks. But it's not the "official" way and you're not going to get support for it.
2. I hate Mac. Most of the features people kept saying made Mac better than Windows have by now been incorporated to Windows.
Wrong. You're talking about user interface features such as widgets, transparency, etc. However, Mac OSX is fully qualified UNIX system based on BSD and Mach. That's why graphics designers, sound producers and etc. are still on MacOSX side...you can't beat UNIX stability, philosophy and performance. OSX systems often bug because of crappy 3rd party applications, well that's true also for Windows, however i've seen Windows slowdown and bugs without any crappy 3rd party software;
Windows can slowdown because of overfilled registry - that's impossible with UNIX systems, cause they store software configuration in decentralized manner. Windows can slowdown because of fragmented filesystem due to heavy usage. UNIX systems don have fragmented filesystems.
I have around 230 non-base software packages installed on my FreeBSD and i have around 20,000 files distributed on my filesystem. It's 0% faster and 0% slower than base, vanilla installation with 0 non-base packages and couple of hundreds of files. Let's see that ratio with Windows.
3. Wrong. There are people like that, and yes, they do evoke in me the urge to smash their face with a brick, but I know many people who got themselves a Mac and keep all quiet about it. In fact, I have known people who got themselves a Mac and installed Windows on it after a few weeks.
User's choice. Most people are lazy to learn and are used to Windows workflow and how-you-do-stuff.
4. Definitely wrong. The amount of people I know who complain about Mac by far outweigh the amount of people who don't. As I said, I hate Mac, and I know many people who share my sentiments.
I'd like to see real arguments here. You can hate Mac because it sells design, it's more like Armani than computer company, but they do have rock-solid hardware and operating system under that shiny hood.
Some OS X features were stolen by Windows, and Vista's implementation of them was pretty crusty
You're all taking from the perspective of computer user who only sees things on surface, and that's GUI. All those gimicks and fancy 3D effects have nothing to do with operating system itself. I can switch to Berly / AIGLX right now and have 3D effects on my BSD workstation that puts both OSX and Aero to shame.
However it's only an effect. Once you start using your computer for certain function, you won't even notice that effects. Do i notice my Opera titlebar while i'm posting this? No. There might be naked 3D women dancing on top of it, i wouldn't notice it because i'm concentrated on this post.
