I was actually gonna post up how much i dig windows 7, lol.

Why put some silly question on philosophy..
If you don't like Microshit, then go for linux or some other OS.
No need to talk about Windows on Philosophy..

In order to stay on top, they have to continue to expand their software base and try cover many markets at once. Ultimately, they're like butter being spread too thin. Yes, it's delicious butter, but not fully satisfying.

It's successfull because it's easy.
Everybody is used to it.
Software is developed mostly for Windows.
And after all it's EASY!!!

I just got electrocuted trying to get some of this butter

I am still kicking my self for buying my laptop with XP. I was not about to upgrade to something even better(SARCASM) I have no planed upgrade pending if you know what I mean. Wile typing this I was asked if I was sure I wanted to continue FIVE times
So I know exactly what you mean.

Cant be a Gates hater he does care and donates LOTS of money. I applaud his Corporate Responsibility but we have little choice in computer operating systems his or the Mac.

There are a few more OS choices but the common man cant find the software to run on them.

We dont have a Technology section so were else should this be posted?

I did not vote yet I guess this would fall under the last option on the poll.

One word Monopoly!


PEACE
MV

I'm happy as can be with my O/S... MAC O/S that is.

Windows and PC's never seemed to offer a coherent platform by comparison to me.

I like what Ian Pundit said recently about it on Coast to Coast AM, "Have you seen the mac computers? They're like the Legos of computers, everything just fits together..."

I even infinitely prefer running windows vista on my MAC for the handful of APPS that I use it for...

What an awesome software PARALLELS is... running multiple operating system side by side on the same computer...

I have consider a Mac before but now they run windows as well could be my next computer. I never talked to a Mac user that did not like them.


PEACE
MV

Seriously, linux. It's the wave of the future.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs gates and windows

I love windows

I've tried with Mac, but I'm far to used to the windows platform. I can't justify spending the extra cash on a mac.

MV, I also had the image that linux had no softwares.. But honestly, I've been running Ubuntu for a year now and its GREAT.. Its like the simplest linux for those coming from Windows.. You can test-boot it straight off the cd without installing, to see if you like. This also means if you ever have a serious problem (which I never had of course) you could boot from the cd so it would not be a problem if you had corrupted files or these things that happen to windows but not to linux hehe

Also, remember you can have both in your computer.. I have ubuntu and windows vista dual boot.. The only only reason I ever turn on windows at most once a month, is when I need to get some pictures from the xD card of a friends camera, because my laptop's internal memory card reader for some reason works on linux with all the cards except xD.. All the rest works, all sorts of software I wanted has or has a good equivalent in linux (skype, firefox, office equivalent, photoshop equivalent, msn equivalent, etc etc)..

And it runs all out of the box, its all plug and play, or at least was for me, no driver installing ever. And no need for antivirus

Try it if you have some patience.. just make a partition (or two) for linux on your hard disk and install it... Back up before just in case, of course, but it should all work fine and once installation is finished, automatically on the start up it appears a list for you to chose which OS to start in every time you turn on your computer

Monopoly.

M$ has many great app's today but their evil doing of the past gave them a bad corporate karma.

Yes windows isn't optimal but there is NO other OS that is supported with so many apps and that runs on so many types of hardware. With the Mac Apple has an easy job, they only have so many types of hardware. Linux is already better but is still in the corner of the geek.

The only possibility I see to break the Microsoft OS hegemony is with Android and it's bigger brother Chrome OS. It's all moving to cloud computing and M$ knows this, they are working as hard as they can on Azure, their cloud computing variant. Maybe they can catch up but in the end the days of monolithic OS's like Windows XP/Vista/7 are over.

In not so many years we have enough bandwidth available everywhere to stream the application and games real time, just like in the past with terminal computers. No need for fancy client hardware anymore, the app/game server calculate everything. I'm not sure if this is a good thing but it certainly is the way we are moving to.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

It's exactly these totally idiot pop-up's with lame excuses for why your computer is crashing this time, bizarre anouncements and weird questions, that in a reflex made me post this poll.

I believe that their monopoly position must indeed have something to do with the shittyness of their products. So i would go for them having adopted the businesmodel of the firm that produced the infamous trabant in the DDR.

Windows is the trabant of the I.T. world.

Looking at it from a moral perspective, i find making shitty products (especially when spending billions of dollars on research) is a form of waste. Waste of time, waste of money, waste of energy, waste of technology and therefore waste of materials and resources.

I don't understand that people even dare, commiting their name to some products and asking money for it.

I don't understand bad design. You would expect firms to do some test-runs on the stuff they sell.

"It's exactly these totally idiot pop-up's with lame excuses for why your computer is crashing this time, bizarre anouncements and weird questions, that in a reflex made me post this poll."

I share your frustration.

I use "Litestep" as Shell Replacement. I didnt set "Explorer" as shell since long imte. nobody hates microsoft more than me trust me. They are giving us very useless primitive technology, they are selling us their constipated shit to eat. Its inhuman what they are doing. Every body knows its just a marketing strategy. "Why to sell a perfect system, while we can sell 100 useless systems to people" is a really crappy idea.

MS and Apple produce poor quality products and have shady business practices because the consumer more often than not has more money than sense, and doubly so when it comes to computers. My friend bought an MS Zune 1st gen, and it will regularly shut off if it's in his pocket because of an issue with static electricity building up between the headphones and the unit. MS refuses to acknowledge the issue, despite lengthy threads in their forums of people having the same problem.

That said, Windows 7 is awesome and "just works"

Ubuntu is wonderful, but you have to be willing to learn a thing or two about your computer and Ubuntu itself. Hardware developers are still generally hopelessly devoted to microsoft and tend not to make things incredibly easy for linux developers. Most computers work fine with it right out of the box, but my custom desktop and my laptop had some issues to overcome in terms of getting the sound and whatnot to work properly. The advantage is that if you do have a problem, there's a fairly strong centralized community to help you out, but be prepared to learn a thing or two about scripts and command-line. My in-laws' computer worked just fine with Ubuntu, however. I can't imagine ever going back to windows or mac ever again.