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 with so few threats (and there really are very few). But as OSX becomes 
 more attractive to switchers (and it is), so the sun will disappear and the 
 scum of the earth will begin to see MacOS as a money earner. It will then 
 be plagued as XP is and Vista will inevitably become. 
 Ade Cox, Derby, UK 
  
 I use both Windows (have beta'd the Vista) and the OS X. I prefer my Mac 
 and the OS X. Main benefits: Hardly any crashes, features such as 'active 
 corners' that allows me to quickly overlook all open windows and chose the 
 right one for instance, icons and their contents are neatly organized in 
 the dock, excellent aid available in the system that will help you use 
 specific features if you are in doubt or use them for the first time. 
 Responses from the operating system make sense, as someone else said: you 
 plug in and it works. The Vista is a step forward with lots of very good 
 features, but it still feels like it is more of a make-over, cosmetical 
 change rather than a whole new way of doing Windows. 
 Susanne Brix, Copenhagen, Denmark 
  
 I am a Microsoft Certified Professional. The surprise here is that I'm 
 going to be buying a mac when the new OS is launched come spring. I can 
 boot into OSX, Windows or even Linux if I want to, all the kit works 
 straight out of the box and most importantly..it won't come with dozens of 
 bits of bloatware like Norton pre-installed. The mac only has one drawback, 
 it's not as good a gaming platform as windows is. That is purely down to 
 publishers wanting to sell to a larger market. Programmers are just as 
 happy to use opengl for example as directx. Personally I only play world of 
 warcraft and otherwise use my computer for business or surfing the 
 net...something the mac can do far far better than a windows pc. Microsoft 
 really needs to cater for the pains that joe public has when they purchase 
 a PC instead of catering for the PC suppliers and also the tech support 
 business which, truth be told, relies on PC's being such a pain in the 
 first place. Make the servers and top end kit hard to use by all means but 
 stop punishing desktop PC users before they end up flocking to Apple. 
 Andy Hoult, Newcastle, UK 
  
 I've being using Linux (Ubuntu & Gentoo mostly) for the past 7-8 years. For 
 most of that time i was also using Windows, 98, 2000 and XP. There is 
 absolutely no doubt in my mind that Linux is a far far superior OS to 
 anything else out there. Its completely customiseable, stable and does what 
 i want it to do, not what someone working for Microsoft "thinks" i want it 
 to do. No viruses, no spyware, no vendor lock in, no forced upgrades. Linux 
 just works, flawlessly. I have all the free software for any task i could 
 possibly want. 
 Paul Ryan, Sligo, Ireland 
  
 I think many of the advantages Apple's OS X offers are actually more 
 intangible than the obvious eye-candy that people see, when first presented 
 with it. Intelligent disc usage (For example, hot-zoning), a journalling 
 file system which keeps track of where files are regardless of how you move 
 them around, a powerful disc searching facility, and an approach to 
 software applications which sees each one bundled into self-contained, 
 self-aware directory trees that remove dependency problems - or the need 
 for such crude hacks as a Registry or RPM-style system (Windows and many 
 mainstream Linux systems, respectively)... these are features of OS X which 
 (like all the best software) work so well that you don't even notice them, 
 until you have to use a system that doesn't have them. It is the system's 
 ability to keep track of where things are, for instance, that drives the 
 true 'drag and drop' mentality behind using a Mac. I recall my colleague's 
 surprise, when using his new Mac, on coming from a Windows world, when I 
 explained that, to ininstal some software from his system, he simply darged 
 it to his wast paper basket. There is a wealth of disc-management, 
 file-system-integrity and resource-husbandry behind such visual 'tricks', 
 bvut because it works so well, even a software engineer can use it, without 
 worrying how it works. To be fair, many of these are things which were once 
 scheduled for Windows Vista, but which were axed during the long 
 death-march that led to it's eventual release. Instead, Vista has shipped 
 with nothing more than an XZP-based core wrapped in a resource-hungry 
 eye-candy exterior. It is little surprise that so many of Microsoft's own 
 developers own Macs, and speak so appreciatively of OS X's features (one 
 needs only read any of their many blogs, to see that this is the case): OS 
 X is where those engineers wanted their own system to be, by now. It is 
 also the place that their own management, at Redmond, failed to lead them - 
 largely because of their dismal, ego-drievn rivalries and internal 
 politics. Good engineers respect good engineering, regardless of what they 
 may think of the company behind it (and there is much, to Apple, that 
 should be looked upon with circumspection). Only the churlish, the 
 childish, and the petty, pour scorn upon a well-made product. Linux is a 
 magnificent piece of work, whatever the 'me-too' fanboys, with their own 
 axes to grind, and very little grasp of software, may cry. It is one which 
 is, almost by it's very nature, destined to live in a 'nearly ready' state. 
 Apple, meanwhile have built a supurbly-designed system. Microsoft, 
 menawhile, has done a decent job with Vista, but anyone who looks at it can 
 see that it is not all that it's makers originally wanted it to be. 
 Daniel, Hexham 
  
 I have a mac since 2002, since then my girlfriend, brother and sister have 
 switched to this system too. Well mac offers me the reliability of a Unix 
 machine with the best of the Windows OS. Its GUI€s is still its age the 
 best one from all in the market, it is clear, intuitive and do not make you 
 feel unsure of your clicking. Software is also not a problem, you can run 
 Mac, Unix and now Windows software on this machine. Do you want more?...I 
 love my mac and I recommend it. 
 Sergio, Hamburg, Germany 
  
 I have been using Linux for seven years now. Why did I choose it that was 
 simple. I could try it for free and if I liked it I could continue to use 
 it. So I tried it and at first it was a bit intimidating. The system look 
 and worked differently. The good news is, it came with all the help you 
 wanted unfortunately you had to read a lot to get what you needed. I 
 discovered something I had never thought of. An operating system that was 
 put together by the heart of million of programmers. A system that is truly 
 reliable. 
 Peter Chaffe, crawley, west sussex 
  
 I use microsoft currently Xp, I like this os because of, once you have it 
 you can immediately use it as it is. It has the basic features which are 
 very useful to me as a user, to name a few the wordpad, paint, system tools 
 and user definition. 
 herbert, Burdeos, Philippines 
  
 Windows Vista - It does everything, its well designed, it brings a breath 
 of fresh air to my PC. The best feature is still the right click and the 
 options available to you, its simple to do what you want in less clicks. 
 Vista is a serious competitor now and as machines get faster and demand 
 more, the OS provides a new stable, gadget ridden experience. Worth the 
 wait for sure. 
 Paul Sheppard, Bedford, England 
  
 OS X is simply the best operating out there for two very straightforward 
 reasons: it's the system that innovates, that other OSs "borrow" their best 
  
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