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Originally posted by Choli

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Originally posted by PlusFan
1]If a virus turns off the security center+the virus scanner, people won't notice, because when the security center is turned off, it won't warn you that virus scanner is broken, and when the security center is turned off, you won't notice!! Therefore, I refer to it as "crappy".

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can really a virus do that? i don't think so.

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Originally posted by PlusFan
If you are talking about revolutionary, you should be talking about the competition in 2005-2006. Mac OS X is already full of eye-candy, and the noob-friendly GNU/linux distributions seem to have hired some graphics artists too!  (I've got this beatifull water+green grass+blue sky picture with SUSE 9.1!)

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don't compare Mac to windows, because they run in different machines (apple vs x86)

about linux, it's "user friendlyness" is very far from windows'. In 2001 you could connect an usb pen drive and Windows xp automatically detected it and "mounted" it in an unit (asigned a drive letter). Today, 2004, I haven't seen any linux able to do that. Just an example of the user friendly.

M$'s integration is much better than linux', imo. Example: everywhere in windows you can do Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V to copy-paste things. In linux... well, that depends on the program. It may be select, middle click or Ctrl+K, Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc... There's no a clear unification of the way things are done. That's the point where linuxers have to improve their kernel, programs, etc...

And Windows has security holes? yes, the same as linux. But the ones of linux are less known and are constantly updated in next versions. A important thing to know is that Windows OS is way bigger than the kernel of Linux. THere are very much more lines of code in Windows. It's normal that there are bugs.


With all this, i do not mean that windows is better. It has better things. Linux too. But for the final user, the in-home user, I'd highly recommend Windows.

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Well, I've used a couple of Mac computers in my short lifetime, and they seem to hang while starting up. I was at a science competition, and we had to put together a PowerPoint presentation (PP for Mac) and one of the computers lost power. We turned it back on, and it took, no joke, 45 minutes for it to get to the login screen. While this might look like I'm saying that Mac OS is bad, you might want to keep reading. Mac OS is MUCH more secure than Windows. Windows has too many security holes for my taste. I patch them up as best I can, using programs like Norton, and Spybot, and Firefox . But there's only so far I can patch it without having to edit Windows. Which isn't all that hard, considering that all you have to do is open a command prompt window, and edit explorer.exe. Anyways, what I think is that Windows should look at trying to expand their market. They did a really good job with XP, as it almost never needed a restart, unless you did a big update (SP2 for example) to your computer. Older versions (98, 95) sucked because you had to restart before you could use a program. Now, though, Microsoft has to focus on making their platform THE platform for everything. The main way to do this, in my opinion, is to add endless amounts of goodies that can be tapped by people installing certain programs. For example, let's say you have a graphics artist. Windows could have a feature that, when Photoshop (or a similiar program) was installed, cuold allow you to turn your desktop into a drawing studio, with dockable/hideable toolbars with the different tools. But these options wouldn't appear unless the person had Photoshop installed, because Windows would need a program that supported whatever was needed. Then, let's say you have a music mixer. What about having Windows allow access to advanced Windows Media features, such as creating an internet radio station hosted by Microsoft or some affiliate, or maybe adding features into Windows Media Player that allow the user to play around with the song as it's playing, to give him inspiration. Not only would these ideas increase product appeal, but they would also not take up much space or processing power, since they would only be activated when the required programs were installed. Of course, the feature to turn these things off would be included. Just my two cents.