Windows Vista: Prettier than before

[The Former DMiller]

Wait, wait, upgrades about as much as Windows' free Service Packs, which you pay for, and you call this a GOOD thing?

... Apple is just as much of a racket as Nintendo is! :D (eg: Pokemon, etc) ... just with much more expensive products. :)

I should have clarified that the 10.X.X updates are free. Apple releases them to fix any known vulnerabilities or bugs they find, and they come out once every few months pretty regularly. The only updates you have to pay for are the major "cat" updates, and the Intel updates are not a part of the major updates.

Anyway, I'm not going to say Apple is perfect because they aren't. I was very close to switching to PCs in the late 90s because the Mac platform was horrible, but OS X is such as efficient OS that it is hard to use anything else, and I'm not talking about graphics. Something simple like the ability to press F11 and hide all the current windows, or F9 to see every window that is open makes the whole user experience just a little bit better. And the new search utility is great, and is the main reason I upgraded to 10.4. A quick search for "Nintendo" brought up the following:



As soon as you start typing it begins searching, and you have results almost immediately even on my 6 year old Mac.

And, yes, Macs do have viruses, but so far none of them have been malicious, and they were really more trojan horses than viruses since it took compliance from the user for them to work and they couldn't self-replicate.

If you like Windows better that's fine, but I use both OSes about the same amount now since we have PCs at work, and it is just too obvious how far Microsoft has fallen behind in terms of usability.