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| Posted by: Mike Murray |
2/12/2008 |
 Yes. It is true. Last week I purchased an Apple MacBook Pro.
I've decided that my Pro-Microsoft days are over. Vista and most of the stuff coming out of Redmond these days are turds. That's right TURDS. Vista is a steaming pile of them.
Now before you jump to conclusions (especially if you work for me), I am not saying Windows is dead or anything like that. Microsoft will always have its place in the business and consumer market. But when you compare Vista vs. Leopard OS-X there is no comparison. Leopard is elegant, fast, and nimble. Vista is elegant, bloated and slow. I almost hate to call it elegant though. Aero is beautiful. Its almost striking at first. However, UAC is the most useless pile of steaming poo anyone has ever laid eyes on and totally ruins the rest of the interface. Way to go Bill.
What I am saying is that the consumer market will continue to move away from full blown PCs to machines designed for web browsing. Apple obviously knows this. Look at the iPhone, iMac and Mac Mini. Look at the beautifully simple design of the operating systems. Any average Joe can use a Mac.
And lastly. For the Power User. Macs are now Intel processor based and can run Windows natively or in a VMWare session. No need to own a PC anymore. The Mac can do it all, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the new world. Where Microsoft is no longer king. It is coming and Microsoft did it to themselves. |
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Re: My move to the Dark Side |
By craig on
2/18/2008 |
| I think you mean "My move FROM the dark side." I always thought Microsoft *WAS* the dark side.<br><br>Right on about your comments on Vista and Microsoft. I still like their programming tools, but even those are becoming bloated and over-complex. Simpler is better.<br><br>The downside to owning a mac and being a Microsoft developer is that i'm constantly having to use windows. So i have to deal with 2 different sets keyboard shortcuts, 2 different file systems, etc. VMWare works great but i still think it bogs down having both OS's run side by side (mostly because of windows.) My experiences lately have made me consider selling my mac or to stop developing under windows--maybe i'll become a java or ruby on rails developer. I love Mac OSX for the most part but having to switch back and forth is painful. Whatever I decide, I will never run Vista if i can help it. I've heard too many horror stories. <br><br>Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot. I don't know how or why with a company that has more money than god, but they are doing it. I even like Ubuntu Linux better than vista which is very Windowsey and has the same shortcuts and symbols as windows but runs faster and smoother. <br><br>Microsoft should take a page out of Apple's book and decide to start over. About 8+ years back, Apple said to themselves: "Screw backwards compatibility! We've gone as far as we can with the Mac OS9 architecture--we need to start over!" So they took a unix distro, slapped on a nice vector based GUI that was fast and lean and have been rocking and rolling ever since. They even provided a framework to port OS9 applications to OSX. And now OSX even runs on the IPhone and IPod. <br><br>Microsoft could do the same. If they gobbled up some Linux or Unix company and rewrote windows on top of it, lots of Unixey software could work almost from day one. Then they could create some kind of migration framework to get old windows programs to run on the new OS the same way Apple did with Cocoa. <br><br>But currently their OS gets fatter and slower as they pile new features (many of which are useless) on top of code that dates all the way back to windows 95 or before. <br><br>Here's another funny thing. I can legally run copy of OSX on 5 computers and I never have to activate it. |
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