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I find it insulting when applications bundle unrelated crapware like browser toolbars, particularly when the installation selects the extra junk by default...

...software upgrades need to be elegant and streamlined. Bundling in a browser toolbar cheapens the whole experience because it starts looking just like so many other crapware applications that plague the PC industry.

I found this more useful...

I'm a mac-user-hater.

It is insane to judge entire nations by few morons that belongs to it. Same thing with your poor "experience" that makes me laugh.

JFYI: We are running a bank that machines are only macs. And at least our 6K internal users has totally opposite behavior as your customers.

These days OSX is a Unix. Just that plain Unix that is registered at Open Group consortium (well, Linux since not Unix, hence is not there). Lots of my friends that are Ph.D. actually, moved from Linux to OSX just to make stuff really done. We all use Linux and we love it in its niche. However, our time is expensive, thus waste our time to configure it *properly* -- too costly for us. Among with that, Microsoft Windows even not considered to look at because we already has been there and know where it sucks and where it really wins.

Summarize, Macs are not problem-free or bug-free. In some cases OSX Server is like Microsoft product or sometimes worse. All software sucks, no matter what you use. But despite of this, Macs still does *much* more efficient at the end of overall run: they are cheaper, stable and better integrated. Personally I watch how Linux evolutes and how OSX does. And currently I can say: "Bravo, Steve!" for how clever Apple combine proprietary and open source together. Yes, I would love it more open source than it is. But I see evolution and see how Apple moves to the right direction.

What this sort of articles wants to say me? Use Windows? -- no, thanks. Use Linux/BSD? -- I do for years, I know them all. Apple is very serious about software. And probably this is the answer why.

Michael Stonebraker sure sounds like a moron: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/01/19/mapreduce-reading/

Does anybody have an example of something Stonebraker has said that isn't vapid, patently obvious, or flagrantly wrong?

Everyone calm down! Changes are Java 6 will be released in a couple of weeks time, since Apple always does a major Java update after a OS release, read this blog: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/10/28/os-x-java-definitive-timeline/

Apple has not "screwed" Java. Java5 works on Leopard, and for that matter, no one is holding a gun to Mac-using Java developers' heads forcing them to upgrade.

Historically, Java releases on OS X have not been aligned exactly with updates to the OS as this timeline shows. Yeah, it would be great if Apple would announce an estimated release date for Java6 on Leopard, but it would have been the wrong decision to delay Leopard in order to get Java6 finished for inclusion.

It's coming in a week?