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 Posted: Fri Aug 31st, 2007 06:34 pm
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zippofan



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 Heh, after administering 600 Windoze boxes and servers all week, the last thing I want to do when I get home is deal with Microsoft torture of patches, hotfixes, and fixes for the patches and hotfixes.  Plus virus updates running every 15 minutes because some pimply faced script kiddie has come up with a new variation on an old virus or new bot. :X

7 Macs here, from a ca. 1989 Mac IIci to a G5 PowerMac running OSX 10.4.  One of them runs my home automation system flawlessly.  I still haven't bought an Evil Empire (Intel) Mac and I am not happy about it but they caved to market forces so I eventually will. I won't have a Windoze PC in my house, my work laptop sits in my closet unused unless I am on a business trip. 

I have never had an OSX Mac crash, ever.  Yes, the old systems (System 6, 7, 8 and 9) were really no more stable than Windoze, but I have found that the BSD foundation that OSX is on is pretty bulletproof.

Market penetration doesn't mean superiority.  Remember Betamax?  The best video quality on videotape, but VHS held up to 8 hours of (abysmal quality) video compared to 6 for Beta.  VHS won in the marketplace, though Beta remained at production houses and TV studios for years and many iterations.  Microsoft business practices and Apple's premium hardware pricing have kept them out of businesses, not the superiority of the Windoze OS.

Go to a TV studio, recording studio or other media production house and you won't find Windoze... toon1.gif

Cheers,
Griff