You should be upset with the hardware vendors not Microsoft.

I really appreciated your article and I find it amazing how many people seem to not comprehend on how to argue their side/opinion and you’ve been kind enough to ask them to clarify. Attacking the person instead of the issue has been a long time tactic.

I personally believe that in fact Vista has had some issues and yeah is a little bloated and the network searching is painful but otherwise I’m sure I need to upgrade my skills a little with the new OS. I’ve always owned a Mac since OS8 and I still own one and I like it but i don’t know if its better but many times it works better for me. Personal taste choice is all. However I do in fact use Vista and yeah Ubuntu which is a great OS but I NEED Vista for things I can’t do in Ubuntu and Mac. therefore I love the comments by R0b.

Keep up the good work Zach I’d like to read more!

In my experience I have noticed that most people tend to defend their “team” rather aggressively without any sort of quantitative rationale. By “team” I mean nationality, sports team, flavour of beer, gaming console, and even OS. Most people are frightened of change. Therefore anything that challenges one’s comfort zone is usually deemed a threat. Hence OS Zealots.

By slapping a subjective tone on their marketing (Vista Sucks because it isn’t as cool as Leopard) Apple sidesteps the real issue: both OS’s are different flavors of the same thing. We really can’t compare Vista to Leopard anymore than we can compare one nationality to another. We can compare similarities but nothing so concrete as to make a definite judgement as to why one is better than the other. Hence the tired OS argument. Apple knows this, and so they go right for the same spot Teeth Whitening, Weight Loss and Rogaine commercials aim: sex appeal, popularity and acceptance. In effect Apple, is targeting our insecurities rather than computing needs. A very effective tactic for most products.

As far as I am concerned, an OS is a tool as is the hardware on which it is installed. Tools are used to perform tasks, nothing more. My tools do not care about me. The people who make the tools I use don’t likely care about me either. They care only about my money. So why would I, or anyone, devote their time evangelizing a product unless that product’s manufacturer is compensating for such effort? Insecurity?

Maybe you should pick up some training on Microsoft products. If you had proper knowledge on how things actually work then maybe you would understand some things. Blue screens are hardware related 90% of the time, maybe you should check you ACTUAL machine. Most of the stuff you refer to in your posts are opinion, where most things in this article are fact. You seem very stereotypical Mac users, you attack people who use something different than you do because you dont understand it. Enjoy your 10% of the marketshare, it will be a long time before Apple beats Microsoft or PC’s for that matter; Unless of course you are selling iPods…just because its trendy.

Apple assumes that its users are technologically-limited (I would argue cognitively limited too). That’s why you have to take their crap product to a “genius” for any defect that might pop up. They don’t want you to be confused or do anything besides checking your email, surfing the web, or adjusting picture saturation. Good luck standardizing on mac in an IT enterprise.

I suggest a new slogan for Apple: “Don’t think.”

Check out this link:

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/#/?video=v1

This experiment illustrates exactly what I’m saying in this article. Although, I’m sure Dizzle and the 3 other people that live in her alternate universe will find some way to distort this and twist this into something that serves the fervent but ignorant Apple audience that have posted comments on this article so far.

I can’t wait to hear what they have to say. Ladies and gentlemen, the delusional comedy styling of Dizzle…

I find that statement inconsistent with the length of the incoherent rambling “Dizzle” has had the time to post on this page.