Take a pill, people, and wipe the foam from your mouths. I've sen more inspired commentary on nVidia tech forums.
In case you don't know, that's not a complament.
7 is the 'best' MS OS to date, but that's considering previous OS's were of course limited by then technology and hardware.
And Mac's are nothing special compared to PC's, people. Get over your over inflated selves and stop fondling your iPod. Nothing in the computer world is original, everyone stole everything from everyone else.
I bought my first computer in late '91, an AST sx33 w/4MB of RAM and 512k on board video. 250MD HDD and a floppy. Didn't even come with a CD-ROM as they had just come out that year, I got a SoundBlaster Discovery kit, an SB16 and a 2x CD-ROM, installed it myself, never even owned a computer before loads of fun.
I paid something like $800 or so for that computer with a 14" VGA monitor from Radio Shack, was my Christmas present from my parents. I could have gotten that, or I could have paod around $2,500 for the exact same thing from Apple.
I've never liked Microsofts business practicess, railed against their and Intels monopoly in my own ways. The E8400 in my system right now is the first Intel CPU I've owned in my own personal computer since the original Pentium 200. Intel came out with the AGP bus after that, fucking me pretty good on what until then had been actual choice in computer hardware. Didn't own a Intel CPU again until last year.
Conversely, I've not owned an nVida video card in my own personal system for almost 10 years. Didn't like the way they did business either, and I shop my opinions.
Everyone hates Microsoft but everyone wants to be them, too. Microsoft itself fell voctim to this wierd ass hostage like phenomnenon when they becase that which they hated, IBM. nVidia wanted to do the same thing with 3dfx. Apple wants the same thing, so does Linux. They all want to rule the market because that's where the big money is, obviously.
I often wondered what we could have had if MS had not taken over the world like they did, but hey the industry screwed themselvs on that shit with really, really stupid licensing agreements. But that's capitalism, bitchs, get over it.
But then I've also wondered what it could have been like if MS had not taken over and no one did. If IBM had never fucked up and opened up their PC platform and had kept it proprietary like Apple. Would we have the choice we have now, or more choice, or none, I don't know.
Windows brought the computer to the masses, it made computers a consumer product. That's good and bad, both really good and really bad, actually. But if MS haden't of done it, someone else would have, and you can't say it would have been better or worse. It just would have been someone else.
By the by, I've ran every MS OS since DOS 5, as well as other OS's and DOS's, but as far as Windows is concerned, I've had exacly one virus in my entire computing lifetime. And that one, I gave to myself by clicking something in an email I knew better than to click, but did because of who is supposedly came from and other circumstances that clouded by better judgement.
Windows is no more or less secure than Mac or Linux, it just has a lot more stupider people using it. It also owns 90% of the entire world market, so yeah, gee, who you gonna target, the 95% or the 3%? Big freakin' wow that Windows gets more viruses targeted to it.
As for Vista, I got it right after it came out. Beside piss poor initial wireless support and Visioneer deciding to fuck me on my scanner, I had ZERO problems with Vista because I had all newer hardware besides the scanner. Besides, it's not MS's responsibility to make sure their one products works with hundreds of thousands of others in all the millions of possible different configuraitons. It wasn't their fault everyone elses drivers sucked, and again, I had ZERO problems with it.
The way I have Vista set up now it's faster than any XP system I ever had, except maybe a bare bones test system when I owned my computer store. Took me all of three minutes to read how to, and then turn off, the notification bullshit. Wow, that was a real inconvenience. Vista has also been at least as if not more stable than XP ever was to me. Vista wasn't OMG! or anything but it was never the giant POS people made it out to be, Most of those same people will say the same about Windows 7, and alreday are.
My computer is my computer, my stereo, my TV, my game system, I play any movie, run any program, play any game, watch any show or media that exists, often at the same time, without it crashing or hanging up 99.5% of the time, I'm just pulling a number out of my ass, I have no idea, but the system has been up for weeks or even months at a time before. I only started turning it off to save electricity.
And I do it all on a Windows Vista computer. Windows is the VHS of computer OS's; cheaper and good enough. I can do more than I could on Linux, or Mac, that is fact. It's an appliance, people, a platform. It's not even as important as what kind of car I drive, which is not important at all.
