Ground Rules for the Windows vs. Mac War

FreshlyShornBalls writes "The New York Times is running a story that I think needs to be seen by everyone on both sides of the on-going Macintosh vs. Windows debate (i.e. just about everyone who posts on Slashdot): Some ground rules for the Windows vs. Mac War." From the article: "Last week, I wrote about some of the changes Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, which is slated for the end of 2006. Interestingly, very few of you responded to that column, probably because so much may change in the next 19 months. But a few of you fired off diatribes about how I'm either a Microsoft 'shill' or an Apple 'apologist' (or maybe it was the other way around). It's not just me, either; it's a running sardonic joke among tech columnists that you can't even USE the word 'Apple' or 'Microsoft' without getting hate mail from somebody or other."

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First Post + Side Declaration

[Xisiqomelir]

So long as Microsoft keeps making inherently insecure and unstable OSes, I have faith in my proprietary and mildly overpriced faction ;)

Direct link?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or could someone post the article? I hate to have to register just to read this.

Bollocks

[bstadil]

MAybe the first thing to establish is not to comapare something available now with something promised (and subject to change WinFS anyone) in the far future.

19 Month is a lifetime is IT, so STFU

Re:How can we RTFA?!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it's safe to say that if it's in the New York Times, it's absolutely not worth reading. Quite frankly it surprises me that anyone would seriously read and believe a shitty American publication like that.

I don't know nothing about Apple vs Microsoft wars

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like just to share my Apple moving experience with you..
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5 1.6 Ghz w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 30 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 50 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 30 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iTunes is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 1.6 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

It's Pogue - stop reading

[CrazyWingman]

Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War By DAVID POGUE

Ok - stopped reading already. It'd David f-ing Pogue. This guy's as much of a moron as John Dvorak. Try reading one of his gadget articles sometime -- you'll die from the smack to the forehead you give yourself.

You forgot that OOO doesn't run on osx but does

[kentsin]

Run on Linux!

Such a simple fact make Linux a better runner than OSX.

Beside, OSX is slow!