Bobvin
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Well, just to chime in, I was a Mac guy going back to ~ 1987 with my IIci. I taught myself enough to get offered a job at Microsoft where I spent a half dozen years. When I started my company all Apple offered was boxes with SuperDrives, etc. More stuff than I needed for simple workstations, so I built a couple computers from parts and I run Windows 7 now on all machines. I don't really have any troubles with my units, and even though I disliked Vista it was stable for me too. When Apple went to UNIX OS, I didn't want to learn yet another operating system. I use iPad and iPhone (finally got one) and they interact with my Win boxes quite simply.
To me, it has become just another tool. I am hardware agnostic, though I used to be an Apple Demo Days evangelista, back when Windows ruled the world and Apple was struggling.
I think a lot of Win problems come from all the BS software loaded on OEM machines, which is why I build them or buy them with no software and load them from scratch. But... When I recently crushed my old iPad, it was so simple to restore the new one from a backup I was up and running as if nothing happened. Way to go Apple for making that a simple background operation that took minutes not days.
That said, Windows 8, IE10, and Office 2013 have totally f'ed font rendering, so where Cleartype used to work across the system now its been dumped for something designed for super resolution screens (like Retina Display) and consequently fonts are blurry depending on where they are rendered. I removed Office 2013 on my Win boxes. So yes, Msoft has its foibles. But Apple, with Unix file permissions, sometimes makes me a little crabby as well.
To me, it has become just another tool. I am hardware agnostic, though I used to be an Apple Demo Days evangelista, back when Windows ruled the world and Apple was struggling.
I think a lot of Win problems come from all the BS software loaded on OEM machines, which is why I build them or buy them with no software and load them from scratch. But... When I recently crushed my old iPad, it was so simple to restore the new one from a backup I was up and running as if nothing happened. Way to go Apple for making that a simple background operation that took minutes not days.
That said, Windows 8, IE10, and Office 2013 have totally f'ed font rendering, so where Cleartype used to work across the system now its been dumped for something designed for super resolution screens (like Retina Display) and consequently fonts are blurry depending on where they are rendered. I removed Office 2013 on my Win boxes. So yes, Msoft has its foibles. But Apple, with Unix file permissions, sometimes makes me a little crabby as well.
